7th United States Congress
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The
Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the
United States national legislature, comprised of the
United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives. It met in
Washington, DC from
March 4,
1801 to
March 3,
1803, during the first two years of the first administration of
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
The apportionment of seats in this
House of Representatives was based on the
First Census of the United States in 1790. Both chambers had a
Democratic-Republican majority, except during the Special session of the Senate, when there was a
Federalist majority in the Senate.
Dates of sessions
March 4,
1801–
March 3,
1803
Previous congress:
6th Congress
Next congress:
8th Congress
Major events
- Main article: Events of 1801; Events of 1802; Events of 1803
Major legislation
''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 7th Congress
Party summary
Senate
TOTAL members: 34
House of Representatives
TOTAL members: 106
Leadership
Senate
House of Representatives
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
- See also: 7th United States Congress - Political Parties
- See also: 7th United States Congress - State Delegations
- See also: United States House election, 1800
Senate
At this time, Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. The
Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, precede the names in the list below. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1802; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1804; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1806.
- Connecticut
Delaware
2. William H. Wells (Fed.)1. Samuel White (Fed.)
Georgia
2. Abraham Baldwin (Dem.-Rep.)3. James Jackson (Dem.-Rep.)
Kentucky
2. John Brown (Dem.-Rep.)3. John Breckinridge (Dem.-Rep.)
Maryland
1. John E. Howard (Fed.)3. William Hindman (Fed.) …appointed to fill vacancy, seated March 5, 1801.: Robert Wright (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801.
Massachusetts
2. Dwight Foster (Fed.) …resigned March 2, 1803.1. Jonathan Mason (Fed.)
New Hampshire
2. Samuel Livermore (Fed.) …resigned June 19, 1801.: Simeon Olcott (Fed.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801.3. James Sheafe (Fed.) …resigned June 14, 1802.: William Plumer (Fed.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 14, 1802.
New Jersey
2. Jonathan Dayton (Fed.)1. Aaron Ogden (Fed.)
New York
1. Gouverneur Morris (Fed.)2. John Armstrong, Jr. (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned February 5, 1802.: DeWitt Clinton (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 23, 1802.
North Carolina
2. Jesse Franklin (Dem.-Rep.)3. David Stone (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio
1. vacant [ The official date when Ohio became a state was not set until 1953, when the 83rd U.S. Congress passed legislation designating the date of the first meeting of the Ohio state legislature, March 1, 1803, as that date. However, on April 30, 1802 the 7th U.S. Congress had passed an act "authorizing the inhabitants of Ohio to form a Constitution and state government, and admission of Ohio into the Union." On February 19, 1803 the same Congress passed an act "providing for the execution of the laws of the United States in the State of Ohio. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress states that Ohio was admitted to the Union on November 29, 1802, and counts its seats as vacant from that date.]3. vacant
Pennsylvania
1. James Ross (Fed.)3. John Peter G. Muhlenberg (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned June 30, 1801.: George Logan (Dem.-Rep.) …appointed to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801, subsequently elected.
Rhode Island
1. Theodore Foster (Dem.-Rep.)2. Ray Greene (Fed.) …resigned March 5, 1801.: Christopher Ellery (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801.
South Carolina
2. Charles Pinckney (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned 1801.: Thomas Sumter (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 19, 1801.3. John Ewing Colhoun (Dem.-Rep.) …died October 26, 1802.: Pierce Butler (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated November 4, 1802.
Tennessee
2. Joseph Anderson (Dem.-Rep.)1. William Cocke (Dem.-Rep.)
Vermont
3. Elijah Paine (Fed.) …resigned September 1, 1801.: Stephen R. Bradley (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801.1. Nathaniel Chipman (Fed.)
Virginia
1. Stevens T. Mason (Dem.-Rep.)2. Wilson C. Nicholas (Dem.-Rep.)
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives known to have been elected statewide
at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those known to have been elected from single member districts, are preceded by their district numbers. A district number with an "A/L" indicates more than one member may be elected from that district. The methodology used for the election of the others is undetermined.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
- Connecticut
Delaware
James A. Bayard (Fed.)
Georgia
A/L. John Milledge (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned May 1802.: Peter Early (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 10, 1803.A/L. Benjamin Taliaferro (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned 1802.: David Meriwether (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6, 1802.
Kentucky
Thomas T. Davis (Dem.-Rep.)John Fowler (Dem.-Rep.)
Maryland
John Campbell (Fed.)Richard Sprigg, Jr. (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned February 12, 1802.: Walter Bowie (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 24, 1802.Thomas Plater (Fed.)Daniel Hiester (Dem.-Rep.)Samuel Smith (Dem.-Rep.)John Archer (Dem.-Rep.)Joseph H. Nicholson (Dem.-Rep.)John Dennis (Fed.)
Massachusetts
John Bacon (Dem.-Rep.)William Shepard (Fed.)Ebenezer Mattoon (Fed.)Levi Lincoln (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned March 5, 1801, before Congress assembled.: Seth Hastings (Fed.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 11, 1802.Lemuel Williams (Fed.)Josiah Smith (Dem.-Rep.)Phanuel Bishop (Dem.-Rep.)William Eustis (Dem.-Rep.)Joseph B. Varnum (Dem.-Rep.)Nathan Read (Fed.)Manasseh Cutler (Fed.)Silas Lee (Fed.) …resigned August 20, 1801.: Samuel Thatcher (Fed.) ...elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6, 1802.Peleg Wadsworth (Fed.)Richard Cutts (Dem.-Rep.)
New Hampshire
A/L. George B. Upham (Fed.)A/L. Joseph Peirce (Fed.) …resigned 1802.: Samuel Hunt (Fed.) ...elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6, 1802.A/L. Samuel Tenney (Fed.)A/L. Abiel Foster (Fed.)
New Jersey
A/L. John Condit (Dem.-Rep.)A/L. William Helms (Dem.-Rep.)A/L. Henry Southard (Dem.-Rep.)A/L. James Mott (Dem.-Rep.)A/L. Ebenezer Elmer (Dem.-Rep.)
New York
John Smith (Dem.-Rep.)Samuel L. Mitchill (Dem.-Rep.)Philip Van Cortlandt (Dem.-Rep.)Lucas C. Elmendorf (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Tillotson (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned August 10, 1801, before Congress assembled.: Theodorus Bailey (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801.John Bird (Fed.) …resigned July 25, 1801, before Congress assembled.: John P. Van Ness (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1801, forfeited January 13, 1803.David Thomas (Dem.-Rep.)Killian K. Van Rensselaer (Fed.)Benjamin Walker (Fed.)Thomas Morris (Fed.)
North Carolina
Charles Johnson (Dem.-Rep.) …died July 23, 1802.: Thomas Wynns (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1802.Willis Alston (Dem.-Rep.)Robert Williams (Dem.-Rep.)Richard Stanford (Dem.-Rep.)Nathaniel Macon (Dem.-Rep.)William H. Hill (Fed.)William Barry Grove (Fed.)Archibald Henderson (Fed.)John Stanly (Fed.)James Holland (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio
[see note 1 above]
Pennsylvania [These district assignments are based on incomplete information and should not be relied upon as authoritative.]
Michael Leib (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Boude (Fed.)Joseph Hemphill (Fed.)William Hoge (Dem.-Rep.)Andrew Gregg (Dem.-Rep.)Henry Woods (Fed.)Robert Brown (Dem.-Rep.)Joseph Hiester (Dem.-Rep.)John A. Hanna (Dem.-Rep.)William Jones (Dem.-Rep.)John Stewart (Dem.-Rep.)John Smilie (Dem.-Rep.)Isaac Van Horne (Dem.-Rep.)
Rhode Island
A/L. Thomas Tillinghast (Dem.-Rep.)A/L. Joseph Stanton, Jr. (Dem.-Rep.)
South Carolina [These district assignments are based on incomplete information and should not be relied upon as authoritative.]
William Butler, Sr. (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Lowndes (Fed.)Benjamin Huger (Fed.)John Rutledge, Jr. (Fed.)Thomas Moore (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Sumter (Dem.-Rep.) …resigned December 15, 1801.: Richard Winn (Dem.-Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 24, 1803.
Tennessee
William Dickson (Dem.-Rep.)
Vermont
Israel Smith (Dem.-Rep.)Lewis R. Morris (Fed.)
Virginia [These district assignments are based on incomplete information and should not be relied upon as authoritative.]
Matthew Clay (Dem.-Rep.)John Dawson (Dem.-Rep.)George Jackson (Dem.-Rep.)David Holmes (Dem.-Rep.)Edwin Gray (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Newton, Jr. (Dem.-Rep.)John Smith (Dem.-Rep.)Thomas Claiborne (Dem.-Rep.)William B. Giles (Dem.-Rep.)John Stratton (Fed.)Anthony New (Dem.-Rep.)John Taliaferro (Dem.-Rep.)Philip R. Thompson (Dem.-Rep.)Abram Trigg (Dem.-Rep.)John Clopton (Dem.-Rep.)Samuel J. Cabell (Dem.-Rep.)John J. Trigg (Dem.-Rep.)Richard Brent (Dem.-Rep.)John Randolph (Dem.-Rep.)
Delegates
Mississippi Territory
- Thomas M. Greene (undetermined)
- : Narsworthy Hunter (undetermined)
Northwest Territory
Paul Fearing (Fed.)
Changes in Membership
See also: 7th United States Congress - Membership Changes
Senate
deaths: 0resignations: 9Total seats with changes: 9House of Representatives
deaths: 3resignations: 6Total seats with changes: 9
Officers
Senate
- Secretary of the Senate:
- * Samuel A. Otis of Massachusetts, elected April 8, 1789
- Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:
- * James Mathers of New York, elected April 7, 1789
- Chaplain of the Senate
- * The Rev. Thomas J. Claggett, Episcopalian, elected November 27, 1800.
- * The Rev. Edward Gantt, Episcopalian, elected December 9, 1801.
House of Representatives
- Clerk of the House:
- * John H. Oswald of Pennsylvania, elected December 9, 1800.
- * John Beckley of Virginia, elected December 7, 1801.
- Sergeant at Arms of the House:
- * Joseph Wheaton of Rhode Island, elected December 7, 1801.
- Doorkeeper of the House:
- * Thomas Claxton, elected December 7, 1801.
- Chaplain of the House
- * The Rev. William Parkinson, Baptist, elected December 7, 1801.
Other
Notes
References
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