List of Senate Members of the 8th United States Congress

The senators in the 8th Congress of the United States were one-third in 1802 and 1803 re-elected. Before the 17th Amendment was passed in 1913, the Senate was not directly elected, but the Senators were appointed by the state parliaments. Each state elects two senators who belong to different classes . The term of office is six years, every two years one of the three classes is elected for the seats. Two thirds of the Senate therefore consists of senators whose term of office is still in force.

The term of office of the 8th Congress ran from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805, its first session took place from October 17, 1803 to March 27, 1804 in Washington, DC , the second period from November 5, 1804 to March 3, 1805.

Composition and changes

At the end of his term in office, the 7th Congress had 17 Republicans (today mostly called the Democratic Republican Party ) and 21 Federalists , three seats were vacant. The vacant seat in Massachusetts was filled by the newly elected federalist Timothy Pickering at the meeting of Congress ; in the actual election the federalists lost five seats to the Republicans. Both parties lost one seat each because the New Jersey and Tennessee parliaments failed to agree on senators. This increased the majority of Republicans to 21 against nine federalists, four seats were vacant because the new state of Ohio had not yet voted. These vacant seats were all filled by the first session, with the Republicans being successful in each case, their majority rising to 25 against nine. In spite of two deaths and several resignations, nothing changed in this relationship by the end of the congress.

Special functions

Under the United States Constitution , the vice president is the chairman of the Senate without being a member. In the event of a tie, his vote is decisive. Aaron Burr was vice president during the 8th Congress . Contrary to current practice, the vice president actually presided over the Senate meetings until the late 19th century. A senator was elected pro tempore president, who assumed the chairmanship in the absence of the vice-president. From March 4 to October 16, Stephen R. Bradley, elected by the 7th Congress, was pro tempore president. From October 17 to December 6, 1803, and from January 23 to February 26, 1804, John Brown was President pro tempore, from March 10 to November 4, 1804, Jesse Franklin, and from January 15 to February 3, 1804 1805 and from February 28 to the end of Congress on March 3, 1805 Joseph Anderson , who remained so in the 9th Congress until December 1, 1805.

List of Senators

Under Party it is noted whether a senator is assigned to the Federalist Party or the Republican Party , under State the lists of the senators of the respective state are linked. The regular term of office depends on the senate class : Senators of class I were elected until March 3, 1809, those of class II until March 3, 1805, and those of class III until March 3, 1807. The date indicates when the corresponding Senator was admitted to the Senate, any previous terms of office not taken into account. Under Sen. is the consecutive number of the senators in chronological order; the lower this is, the greater the senator's seniority . The table can be sorted with the arrow keys.

senator	Political party	Country	class	date	Sen.	annotation
James Hillhouse	federalist	Connecticut	I.	May 18, 1796	059
Uriah Tracy	federalist	Connecticut	III	October 13, 1796	064
Samuel White	federalist	Delaware	I.	February 28, 1801	095
William H. Wells	federalist	Delaware	II	January 17, 1799	082	resigned November 6, 1804
James A. Bayard	federalist	Delaware	II	November 13, 1804	124	elected to succeed Wells
Abraham Baldwin	republican	Georgia	II	0March 4, 1799	083
James Jackson	republican	Georgia	III	0March 4, 1801	042	earlier in the 3rd Congress
John Brown	republican	Kentucky	II	June 18, 1792	036	President pro tempore
John Breckinridge	republican	Kentucky	III	0March 4, 1801	096
Samuel Smith	republican	Maryland	I.	0March 4, 1803	114
Robert Wright	republican	Maryland	III	November 19, 1801	104
John Quincy Adams	federalist	Massachusetts	I.	0March 4, 1803	108
Timothy Pickering	federalist	Massachusetts	II	0March 4, 1803	111
Simeon Olcott	federalist	New Hampshire	II	June 17, 1801	102
William Plumer	federalist	New Hampshire	III	June 17, 1802	107
John Condit	republican	New Jersey	I.	0September 1, 1803	117
Jonathan Dayton	federalist	New Jersey	II	0March 4, 1799	084
Theodorus Bailey	republican	new York	I.	0March 4, 1803	109	resigned January 16, 1804
John Armstrong	republican	new York	I (III)	November 10, 1803	091	appointed to succeed Clinton elected to succeed Bailey resigned June 30, 1804 earlier in the 6th and 7th Congresses
Samuel Latham Mitchill	republican	new York	I.	0November 9, 1804	123	elected to succeed Armstrong
DeWitt Clinton	republican	new York	III	0February 9, 1802	106	resigned November 4, 1803
John Smith	republican	new York	III	February 23, 1804	119 a	elected to succeed Clinton
Jesse Franklin	republican	North Carolina	II	0March 4, 1799	086	President pro tempore
David Stone	republican	North Carolina	III	0March 4, 1801	100
John Smith	republican	Ohio	I.	0April 1, 1803	115
Thomas Worthington	republican	Ohio	III	0April 1, 1803	116
Samuel Maclay	republican	Pennsylvania	I.	0March 4, 1803	110
George Logan	republican	Pennsylvania	III	July 13, 1801	103
Samuel J. Potter	republican	Rhode Island	I.	0March 4, 1803	112	died October 14, 1804
Benjamin Howland	republican	Rhode Island	I.	October 29, 1804	122	elected to succeed Potter
Christopher Ellery	republican	Rhode Island	II	0May 6, 1801	101 b
Thomas Sumter	republican	South carolina	II	December 15, 1801	105
Pierce Butler	republican	South carolina	III	0November 4, 1802	002	resigned November 21, 1804 earlier in the 1st through 4th Congresses
John Gaillard	republican	South carolina	III	0December 6, 1804	125	elected to succeed Butler
Joseph Anderson	republican	Tennessee	I.	September 26, 1797	070	President pro tempore
William Cocke	republican	Tennessee	II	0March 4, 1799	063	earlier in the 4th Congress
Israel Smith	republican	Vermont	I.	0March 4, 1803	113
Stephen R. Bradley	republican	Vermont	III	October 15, 1801	030th	earlier in the 2nd to 4th Congress
Stevens Mason	republican	Virginia	I.	November 18, 1794	048	died May 10, 1803
John Taylor	republican	Virginia	I.	0June 4, 1803	038 c	appointed to replace Mason earlier in 2nd and 3rd Congresses
Abraham B. Venable	republican	Virginia	I.	0December 7, 1803	118	elected to succeed Mason , resigned June 7, 1804
Andrew Moore	republican	Virginia	I (II)	August 11, 1804	121	appointed to succeed Nicholas, elected to succeed Venable
Wilson Cary Nicholas	republican	Virginia	II	0December 5, 1799	088	resigned May 22, 1804
William Branch Giles	republican	Virginia	II (I)	August 11, 1804	120	appointed to succeed Venable, elected to succeed Nicholas

• a) Smith is on the Senate list with inauguration February 4th, which is wrong according to all other sources
• b) Ellery is included in the list of the Senate with inauguration May 16, which is wrong according to all other sources
• c) Taylor is listed in the Senate when he took office on March 4th, which is wrong according to all other sources

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dates of Sessions of the Congress , senate.gov, accessed July 5, 2020
2. ^ Party Division , www.senate.gov, accessed October 8, 2019
3. ↑ President Pro Tempore on senate.gov, accessed June 18, 2020
4. ↑ A Chronological Listing of US Senators , US Senate, PDF (approx. 356 kB), accessed June 19, 2020