28th Congress (1843–1845): members and party control
1843-03-04 to 1845-03-04. Everyone who served during this Congress, including members who joined or left part-way through.
Senate
House of Representatives
Members by state
Alabama 2 senators, 8 representatives
- Arthur Bagby Senator · Democrat
- William King Senator · Democrat
- James Belser District 2 · Democrat
- James Dellet District 1 · Whig
- Reuben Chapman District 6 · Democrat
- Felix McConnell District 7 · Democrat
- William Payne District 4 · Democrat
- William Yancey District 3 · Democrat
- Dixon Lewis District 3 · Democrat
- George Houston District 5 · Democrat
Arkansas 3 senators, 1 representatives
- William Fulton Senator · Democrat
- Ambrose Sevier Senator · Democrat
- Chester Ashley Senator · Democrat
- Edward Cross District 1 · Democrat
Connecticut 2 senators, 4 representatives
- John Niles Senator · Democrat
- Jabez Huntington Senator · Whig
- George Catlin District 3 · Democrat
- Thomas Seymour District 1 · Democrat
- Samuel Simons District 4 · Democrat
- John Stewart District 2 · Democrat
Delaware 2 senators, 1 representatives
- Richard Bayard Senator · Whig
- Thomas Clayton Senator · Whig
- George Rodney At-large · Whig
Florida 0 senators, 1 representatives
- David Yulee District -1 · Democrat
Georgia 2 senators, 11 representatives
- Walter Colquitt Senator · Democrat
- John Berrien Senator · Whig
- Edward Black District -1 · Democrat
- Absalom Chappell District -1 · Whig
- Duncan Clinch District -1 · Whig
- Mark Cooper District -1 · Democrat
- John Lamar District -1 · Democrat
- John Millen District -1 · Democrat
- William Stiles District -1 · Democrat
- Hugh Haralson District -1 · Democrat
- Howell Cobb District -1 · Democrat
- John Lumpkin District -1 · Democrat
- Alexander Stephens District -1 · Whig
Illinois 3 senators, 7 representatives
- Samuel McRoberts Senator · Democrat
- Sidney Breese Senator · Democrat
- James Semple Senator · Democrat
- John J. Hardin District 7 · Whig
- Joseph Hoge District 6 · Democrat
- Orlando Ficklin District 3 · Democrat
- Robert Smith District 1 · Democrat
- Stephen Douglas District 5 · Democrat
- John McClernand District 2 · Democrat
- John Wentworth District 4 · Democrat
Indiana 2 senators, 10 representatives
- Edward Hannegan Senator · Democrat
- Albert White Senator · Whig
- Samuel Sample District 9 · Whig
- John Davis District 6 · Democrat
- Andrew Kennedy District 10 · Democrat
- Robert Owen District 1 · Democrat
- Thomas Smith District 3 · Democrat
- Thomas Henley District 2 · Democrat
- Caleb Smith District 4 · Whig
- William Brown District 5 · Democrat
- John Pettit District 8 · Democrat
- Joseph Wright District 7 · Democrat
Iowa 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Augustus Dodge At-large · Democrat
Kentucky 2 senators, 10 representatives
- James Morehead Senator · Whig
- John Crittenden Senator · Whig
- Willis Green District 2 · Whig
- John White District 6 · Whig
- William Thomasson District 7 · Whig
- John Tibbatts District 10 · Democrat
- Richard French District 9 · Democrat
- George Caldwell District 4 · Democrat
- James W. Stone District 5 · Democrat
- Linn Boyd District 1 · Democrat
- Henry Grider District 3 · Whig
- Garrett Davis District 8 · Whig
Louisiana 2 senators, 5 representatives
- Alexander Barrow Senator · Whig
- Henry Johnson Senator · Whig
- Pierre Bossier District 4 · Democrat
- Alcée La Branche District 2 · Democrat
- John Dawson District 3 · Democrat
- Isaac Morse District 4 · Democrat
- John Slidell District 1 · Democrat
Maine 3 senators, 7 representatives
- Reuel Williams Senator · Democrat
- George Evans Senator · Whig
- John Fairfield Senator · Democrat
- Shepard Cary District 7 · Democrat
- Joshua Herrick District 1 · Democrat
- Benjamin White District 5 · Democrat
- Robert Dunlap District 2 · Democrat
- Luther Severance District 3 · Whig
- Freeman Morse District 4 · Whig
- Hannibal Hamlin District 6 · Democrat
Maryland 2 senators, 6 representatives
- William Merrick Senator · Whig
- James Pearce Senator · Whig
- Francis Brengle District 2 · Whig
- John Causin District 1 · Whig
- John Kennedy District 4 · Whig
- Jacob Preston District 5 · Whig
- Thomas Spence District 6 · Whig
- John Wethered District 3 · Whig
Massachusetts 2 senators, 11 representatives
- Isaac Bates Senator · Whig
- Rufus Choate Senator · Whig
- Osmyn Baker District 6 · Whig
- Barker Burnell District 10 · Whig
- William Parmenter District 4 · Democrat
- Henry Williams District 9 · Democrat
- Amos Abbott District 3 · Whig
- John Adams District 8 · Whig
- Charles Hudson District 5 · Whig
- Joseph Grinnell District 10 · Whig
- Daniel King District 2 · Whig
- Robert Winthrop District 1 · Whig
- Julius Rockwell District 7 · Whig
Michigan 2 senators, 3 representatives
- Augustus Porter Senator · Whig
- William Woodbridge Senator · Whig
- Lucius Lyon District 2 · Democrat
- James Hunt District 3 · Democrat
- Robert McClelland District 1 · Democrat
Mississippi 2 senators, 4 representatives
- John Henderson Senator · Whig
- Robert Walker Senator · Democrat
- William Hammett District -1 · Democrat
- Tilghman Tucker District -1 · Democrat
- Robert Roberts District -1 · Democrat
- Jacob Thompson District -1 · Democrat
Missouri 2 senators, 5 representatives
- David Atchison Senator · Democrat
- Thomas Benton Senator · Democrat
- Gustavus Bower District -1 · Democrat
- James Hughes District -1 · Democrat
- James Relfe District -1 · Democrat
- John Jameson District -1 · Democrat
- James Bowlin District -1 · Democrat
New Hampshire 2 senators, 4 representatives
- Levi Woodbury Senator · Democrat
- Charles Atherton Senator · Democrat
- Edmund Burke District -1 · Democrat
- John Reding District -1 · Democrat
- Moses Norris, Jr. District -1 · Democrat
- John Hale District -1 · Democrat
New Jersey 2 senators, 5 representatives
- William Dayton Senator · Whig
- Jacob Miller Senator · Whig
- Lucius Elmer District 1 · Democrat
- Isaac Farlee District 3 · Democrat
- Littleton Kirkpatrick District 4 · Democrat
- George Sykes District 2 · Democrat
- William Wright District 5 · Ind. Whig
New York 4 senators, 35 representatives
- Nathaniel Tallmadge Senator · Whig
- Silas Wright, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- Daniel Dickinson Senator · Democrat
- Henry Foster Senator · Democrat
- Daniel Barnard District 13 · Whig
- Samuel Beardsley District 20 · Democrat
- Levi D. Carpenter District 20 · Democrat
- Jeremiah Cary District 21 · Democrat
- James Clinton District 9 · Democrat
- Amasa Dana District 26 · Democrat
- Richard Davis District 8 · Democrat
- Chesselden Ellis District 16 · Democrat
- Byram Green District 27 · Democrat
- William Hubbell District 30 · Democrat
- Moses Leonard District 5 · Democrat
- Thomas J. Patterson District 28 · Whig
- Zadock Pratt District 11 · Democrat
- Smith Purdy District 22 · Democrat
- Orville Robinson District 23 · Democrat
- Charles Rogers District 14 · Whig
- Jeremiah Russell District 10 · Democrat
- Lemuel Stetson District 15 · Democrat
- Selah Strong District 1 · Democrat
- Asher Tyler District 31 · Whig
- Joseph Anderson District 7 · Democrat
- Charles Benton District 17 · Democrat
- Charles Carroll District 29 · Whig
- Orville Hungerford District 19 · Democrat
- William Moseley District 32 · Whig
- George Rathbun District 25 · Democrat
- Albert Smith District 33 · Whig
- Horace Wheaton District 24 · Democrat
- Washington Hunt District 34 · Whig
- Henry Murphy District 2 · Democrat
- Jonas Phoenix District 3 · Whig
- Hamilton Fish District 6 · Whig
- David Seymour District 12 · Democrat
- Preston King District 18 · Democrat
- William Maclay District 4 · Democrat
North Carolina 2 senators, 9 representatives
- William Haywood, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- Willie Mangum Senator · Whig
- Archibald Arrington District 8 · Democrat
- Kenneth Rayner District 9 · Whig
- Romulus Saunders District 5 · Democrat
- Daniel Barringer District 2 · Whig
- James McKay District 6 · Democrat
- Edmund Deberry District 4 · Whig
- John Daniel District 7 · Democrat
- David Reid District 3 · Democrat
- Thomas Clingman District 1 · Whig
Ohio 2 senators, 23 representatives
- Benjamin Tappan Senator · Democrat
- William Allen Senator · Democrat
- Henry Brinkerhoff District 21 · Democrat
- Ezra Dean District 18 · Democrat
- Alexander Duncan District 1 · Democrat
- Elias Florence District 9 · Whig
- Edward Hamlin District 21 · Whig
- Perley Johnson District 13 · Whig
- James Mathews District 16 · Democrat
- William McCauslen District 17 · Democrat
- Heman Moore District 10 · Democrat
- Alfred Stone District 10 · Democrat
- John Vanmeter District 8 · Whig
- Jacob Brinkerhoff District 11 · Democrat
- Joseph McDowell District 7 · Democrat
- Joseph Morris District 15 · Democrat
- Henry St. John District 6 · Democrat
- Daniel Tilden District 19 · Whig
- Joseph Vance District 4 · Whig
- Emery Potter District 5 · Democrat
- Samuel Vinton District 12 · Whig
- Alexander Harper District 14 · Whig
- John B. Weller District 2 · Democrat
- Joshua Giddings District 20 · Whig
- Robert Schenck District 3 · Whig
Pennsylvania 2 senators, 27 representatives
- Daniel Sturgeon Senator · Democrat
- James Buchanan Senator · Democrat
- Benjamin Bidlack District 11 · Democrat
- Jeremiah Brown District 8 · Whig
- Henry Frick District 13 · Whig
- George Fuller District 12 · Democrat
- Samuel Hays District 22 · Democrat
- James Irvin District 17 · Whig
- Michael Jenks District 6 · Whig
- Almon Read District 12 · Democrat
- Charles Reed District 23 · Whig
- John T. Smith District 3 · Democrat
- William Wilkins District 21 · Democrat
- James Black District 16 · Democrat
- Joseph Buffington District 24 · Whig
- Cornelius Darragh District 21 · Whig
- John Ritter District 9 · Democrat
- Jacob Yost District 5 · Democrat
- John Dickey District 20 · Whig
- Charles Ingersoll District 4 · Democrat
- Joseph Ingersoll District 2 · Whig
- Abraham McIlvaine District 7 · Whig
- James Pollock District 13 · Whig
- Andrew Stewart District 18 · Whig
- Henry Nes District 15 · Ind. Democrat
- Richard Brodhead District 10 · Democrat
- Edward Morris District 1 · Whig
- Alexander Ramsey District 14 · Whig
- Henry Foster District 19 · Democrat
Rhode Island 3 senators, 2 representatives
- William Sprague Senator · Whig
- John Francis Senator · Law and Order
- James Simmons Senator · Whig
- Elisha Potter District 2 · Law and Order
- Henry Cranston District 1 · Law and Order
South Carolina 3 senators, 7 representatives
- George McDuffie Senator · Democrat
- Daniel Huger Senator · Democrat
- John Calhoun Senator · Democrat
- John Campbell District 4 · Democrat
- James Black District 1 · Democrat
- Richard Simpson District 2 · Democrat
- Isaac Holmes District 6 · Democrat
- Robert Rhett District 7 · Democrat
- Armistead Burt District 5 · Democrat
- Joseph Woodward District 3 · Democrat
Tennessee 2 senators, 11 representatives
- Ephraim Foster Senator · Whig
- Spencer Jarnagin Senator · Whig
- John Ashe District 10 · Whig
- Julius W. Blackwell District 3 · Democrat
- Aaron Brown District 6 · Democrat
- David W. Dickinson District 7 · Whig
- Cave Johnson District 9 · Democrat
- William Senter District 2 · Whig
- Milton Brown District 11 · Whig
- Alvan Cullom District 4 · Democrat
- Joseph Peyton District 8 · Whig
- George Jones District 5 · Democrat
- Andrew Johnson District 1 · Democrat
Vermont 2 senators, 4 representatives
- William Upham Senator · Whig
- Samuel Phelps Senator · Whig
- Paul Dillingham, Jr. District 4 · Democrat
- George Marsh District 3 · Whig
- Jacob Collamer District 2 · Whig
- Solomon Foot District 1 · Whig
Virginia 2 senators, 17 representatives
- William Archer Senator · Whig
- William Rives Senator · Whig
- Samuel Chilton District 9 · Whig
- Walter Coles District 3 · Democrat
- Thomas Gilmer District 5 · Democrat
- John Jones District 6 · Democrat
- William Lucas District 10 · Democrat
- Willoughby Newton District 8 · Whig
- Lewis Steenrod District 15 · Democrat
- George Summers District 14 · Whig
- Henry Wise District 7 · Democrat
- Augustus Chapman District 12 · Democrat
- Edmund Hubard District 4 · Democrat
- William Taylor District 11 · Democrat
- Archibald Atkinson District 1 · Democrat
- George Dromgoole District 2 · Democrat
- William Goggin District 5 · Whig
- Thomas Bayly District 7 · Democrat
- George Hopkins District 13 · Democrat
Wisconsin 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Henry Dodge District -1 · Democrat
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