29th Congress (1845–1847): members and party control
1845-03-04 to 1847-03-04. 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, 9 representatives
- Arthur Bagby Senator · Democrat
- Dixon Lewis Senator · Democrat
- Reuben Chapman District 6 · Democrat
- James Cottrell District 3 · Democrat
- Edmund Dargan District 1 · Democrat
- Felix McConnell District 7 · Democrat
- William Payne District 4 · Democrat
- William Yancey District 3 · Democrat
- Franklin Bowdon District 7 · Democrat
- Henry Hilliard District 2 · Whig
- George Houston District 5 · Democrat
Arkansas 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Ambrose Sevier Senator · Democrat
- Chester Ashley Senator · Democrat
- Thomas Newton District 1 · Whig
- Archibald Yell District 1 · Democrat
Connecticut 2 senators, 4 representatives
- John Niles Senator · Democrat
- Jabez Huntington Senator · Whig
- Samuel Hubbard District 2 · Whig
- John Rockwell District 3 · Whig
- Truman Smith District 4 · Whig
- James Dixon District 1 · Whig
Delaware 2 senators, 1 representatives
- Thomas Clayton Senator · Whig
- John Clayton Senator · Whig
- John Houston At-large · Whig
Florida 2 senators, 2 representatives
- James Westcott, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- David Yulee Senator · Democrat
- William Brockenbrough District 1 · Democrat
- Edward Cabell District 1 · Whig
Georgia 2 senators, 8 representatives
- Walter Colquitt Senator · Democrat
- John Berrien Senator · Whig
- Seaborn Jones District 2 · Democrat
- George Towns District 3 · Democrat
- Hugh Haralson District 4 · Democrat
- Thomas King District 1 · Whig
- Howell Cobb District 6 · Democrat
- John Lumpkin District 5 · Democrat
- Robert Toombs District 8 · Whig
- Alexander Stephens District 7 · Whig
Illinois 2 senators, 8 representatives
- Sidney Breese Senator · Democrat
- James Semple Senator · Democrat
- John Henry District 7 · Whig
- Joseph Hoge District 6 · Democrat
- Orlando Ficklin District 3 · Democrat
- Robert Smith District 1 · Democrat
- Stephen Douglas District 5 · Democrat
- Edward Baker District 7 · Whig
- John McClernand District 2 · Democrat
- John Wentworth District 4 · Democrat
Indiana 2 senators, 10 representatives
- Edward Hannegan Senator · Democrat
- Jesse Bright Senator · Democrat
- 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 Wick District 5 · Democrat
- Edward McGaughey District 7 · Whig
- Charles Cathcart District 9 · Democrat
- John Pettit District 8 · Democrat
Iowa 0 senators, 3 representatives
- Serranus Hastings District -1 · Democrat
- Augustus Dodge At-large · Democrat
- Shepherd Leffler District -1 · Democrat
Kentucky 2 senators, 10 representatives
- James Morehead Senator · Whig
- John Crittenden Senator · Whig
- Joshua Bell District 4 · Whig
- John Martin District 6 · Democrat
- John McHenry District 2 · Whig
- William Thomasson District 7 · Whig
- John Tibbatts District 10 · Democrat
- Andrew Trumbo District 9 · Whig
- Bryan Young District 5 · Whig
- Linn Boyd District 1 · Democrat
- Henry Grider District 3 · Whig
- Garrett Davis District 8 · Whig
Louisiana 2 senators, 6 representatives
- Alexander Barrow Senator · Whig
- Henry Johnson Senator · Whig
- John Dawson District -1 · Democrat
- Bannon Thibodeaux District 2 · Whig
- John Harmanson District 3 · Democrat
- Emile La Sére District 1 · Democrat
- Isaac Morse District 4 · Democrat
- John Slidell District 1 · Democrat
Maine 2 senators, 7 representatives
- George Evans Senator · Whig
- John Fairfield Senator · Democrat
- Robert Dunlap District 2 · Democrat
- John McCrate District 4 · Democrat
- John Scamman District 1 · Democrat
- Luther Severance District 3 · Whig
- Hezekiah Williams District 7 · Democrat
- Cullen Sawtelle District 5 · Democrat
- Hannibal Hamlin District 6 · Democrat
Maryland 2 senators, 6 representatives
- James Pearce Senator · Whig
- Reverdy Johnson Senator · Whig
- Albert Constable District 5 · Democrat
- William Giles District 4 · Democrat
- Edward Long District 6 · Whig
- Thomas Perry District 2 · Democrat
- John Chapman District 1 · Whig
- Thomas Ligon District 3 · Democrat
Massachusetts 3 senators, 10 representatives
- Isaac Bates Senator · Whig
- Daniel Webster Senator · Whig
- John Davis Senator · Whig
- Amos Abbott District 3 · Whig
- John Adams District 8 · Whig
- Artemas Hale District 9 · Whig
- Charles Hudson District 5 · Whig
- George Ashmun District 6 · Whig
- Joseph Grinnell District 10 · Whig
- Daniel King District 2 · Whig
- Robert Winthrop District 1 · Whig
- Benjamin Thompson District 4 · Whig
- Julius Rockwell District 7 · Whig
Michigan 2 senators, 3 representatives
- William Woodbridge Senator · Whig
- Lewis Cass Senator · Democrat
- John Chipman District 2 · Democrat
- James Hunt District 3 · Democrat
- Robert McClelland District 1 · Democrat
Mississippi 3 senators, 5 representatives
- Robert Walker Senator · Democrat
- Joseph Chalmers Senator · Democrat
- Jesse Speight Senator · Democrat
- Henry Ellett District -1 · Democrat
- Robert Roberts District -1 · Democrat
- Jacob Thompson District -1 · Democrat
- Stephen Adams District -1 · Democrat
- Jefferson Davis District -1 · Democrat
Missouri 2 senators, 6 representatives
- David Atchison Senator · Democrat
- Thomas Benton Senator · Democrat
- William McDaniel District -1 · Democrat
- Sterling Price District -1 · Democrat
- James Relfe District -1 · Democrat
- Leonard Sims District -1 · Democrat
- James Bowlin District -1 · Democrat
- John Phelps District -1 · Democrat
New Hampshire 4 senators, 3 representatives
- Levi Woodbury Senator · Democrat
- Benning Jenness Senator · Democrat
- Joseph Cilley Senator · Liberty
- Charles Atherton Senator · Democrat
- Mace Moulton District -1 · Democrat
- James Johnson District -1 · Democrat
- Moses Norris, Jr. District -1 · Democrat
New Jersey 2 senators, 6 representatives
- William Dayton Senator · Whig
- Jacob Miller Senator · Whig
- John Runk District 3 · Whig
- George Sykes District 2 · Democrat
- Samuel Wright District 2 · Whig
- Joseph E. Edsall District 4 · Democrat
- James Hampton District 1 · Whig
- William Wright District 5 · Whig
New York 3 senators, 35 representatives
- Daniel Dickinson Senator · Democrat
- Henry Foster Senator · Democrat
- John Dix Senator · Democrat
- Joseph Anderson District 7 · Democrat
- Charles Benton District 17 · Democrat
- William W. Campbell District 6 · American
- Charles Carroll District 29 · Whig
- John Collin District 11 · Democrat
- Erastus Culver District 14 · Whig
- John De Mott District 27 · Democrat
- Samuel Ellsworth District 26 · Democrat
- Samuel Gordon District 10 · Democrat
- Martin Grover District 30 · Democrat
- Richard Herrick District 12 · Whig
- William Hough District 23 · Democrat
- Orville Hungerford District 19 · Democrat
- John Lawrence District 1 · Democrat
- Abner Lewis District 31 · Whig
- William Miller District 3 · American
- William Moseley District 32 · Whig
- Archibald Niven District 9 · Democrat
- George Rathbun District 25 · Democrat
- Thomas C. Ripley District 12 · Whig
- Henry Seaman District 2 · American
- Albert Smith District 33 · Whig
- Stephen Strong District 22 · Democrat
- Horace Wheaton District 24 · Democrat
- Bradford Wood District 13 · Democrat
- Thomas M. Woodruff District 5 · American
- William W. Woodworth District 8 · Democrat
- Elias Holmes District 28 · Whig
- Washington Hunt District 34 · Whig
- Hugh White District 16 · Whig
- Timothy Jenkins District 20 · Democrat
- Joseph Russell District 15 · Democrat
- Preston King District 18 · Democrat
- William Maclay District 4 · Democrat
- Charles Goodyear District 21 · Democrat
North Carolina 3 senators, 9 representatives
- William Haywood, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- Willie Mangum Senator · Whig
- George Badger Senator · Whig
- Henry Clark District 8 · Democrat
- James Dobbin District 5 · Democrat
- James Graham District 1 · Whig
- Daniel Barringer District 2 · Whig
- James McKay District 6 · Democrat
- John Daniel District 7 · Democrat
- Alfred Dockery District 4 · Whig
- David Reid District 3 · Democrat
- Asa Biggs District 9 · Democrat
Ohio 2 senators, 21 representatives
- William Allen Senator · Democrat
- Thomas Corwin Senator · Whig
- Jacob Brinkerhoff District 11 · Democrat
- Francis Cunningham District 2 · Democrat
- Joseph McDowell District 7 · Democrat
- Joseph Morris District 15 · Democrat
- Isaac Parrish District 13 · Democrat
- Augustus Perrill District 9 · Democrat
- Henry St. John District 6 · Democrat
- David Starkweather District 18 · Democrat
- Daniel Tilden District 19 · Whig
- Joseph Vance District 4 · Whig
- John D. Cummins District 16 · Democrat
- James Faran District 1 · Democrat
- George Fries District 17 · Democrat
- William Sawyer District 5 · Democrat
- Joseph Root District 21 · Whig
- Samuel Vinton District 12 · Whig
- Alexander Harper District 14 · Whig
- Joshua Giddings District 20 · Whig
- Columbus Delano District 10 · Whig
- Robert Schenck District 3 · Whig
- Allen Thurman District 8 · Democrat
Pennsylvania 3 senators, 24 representatives
- Daniel Sturgeon Senator · Democrat
- James Buchanan Senator · Democrat
- Simon Cameron Senator · Democrat
- James Black District 16 · Democrat
- Joseph Buffington District 24 · Whig
- John Campbell District 3 · American
- Cornelius Darragh District 21 · Whig
- Jacob Erdman District 6 · Democrat
- John Ewing District 20 · Whig
- William Garvin District 22 · Democrat
- Owen D. Leib District 11 · Democrat
- Moses McClean District 15 · Democrat
- John Ritter District 9 · Democrat
- Jacob Yost District 5 · Democrat
- John Blanchard District 17 · 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
- John Strohm District 8 · Whig
- Lewis Levin District 1 · American
- James Thompson District 23 · Democrat
- Richard Brodhead District 10 · Democrat
- David Wilmot District 12 · Democrat
- Alexander Ramsey District 14 · Whig
- Henry Foster District 19 · Democrat
Rhode Island 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Albert Greene Senator · Whig
- James Simmons Senator · Whig
- Lemuel Arnold District 2 · Whig
- Henry Cranston District 1 · Whig
South Carolina 4 senators, 7 representatives
- George McDuffie Senator · Democrat
- Daniel Huger Senator · Democrat
- John Calhoun Senator · Democrat
- Andrew Butler Senator · Democrat
- James Black District 1 · Democrat
- Richard Simpson District 2 · Democrat
- Alexander Sims District 4 · Democrat
- Isaac Holmes District 6 · Democrat
- Robert Rhett District 7 · Democrat
- Armistead Burt District 5 · Democrat
- Joseph Woodward District 3 · Democrat
Tennessee 2 senators, 12 representatives
- Spencer Jarnagin Senator · Whig
- Hopkins Turney Senator · Democrat
- Milton Brown District 11 · Whig
- Alvan Cullom District 4 · Democrat
- Edwin Ewing District 8 · Whig
- Barclay Martin District 6 · Democrat
- Joseph Peyton District 8 · Whig
- Lucien Chase District 9 · Democrat
- William Cocke District 2 · Whig
- John Crozier District 3 · Whig
- Meredith Gentry District 7 · Whig
- Frederick Stanton District 10 · Democrat
- George Jones District 5 · Democrat
- Andrew Johnson District 1 · Democrat
Texas 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Thomas Rusk Senator · Democrat
- Samuel Houston Senator · Democrat
- Timothy Pilsbury District 2 · Democrat
- David Kaufman 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, 16 representatives
- William Archer Senator · Whig
- Isaac Pennybacker Senator · Democrat
- Augustus Chapman District 12 · Democrat
- Edmund Hubard District 4 · Democrat
- Joseph Johnson District 14 · Democrat
- William Taylor District 11 · Democrat
- William Tredway District 3 · Democrat
- Archibald Atkinson District 1 · Democrat
- Henry Bedinger District 10 · Democrat
- George Dromgoole District 2 · Democrat
- John Pendleton District 9 · Whig
- James McDowell District 11 · Democrat
- James Seddon District 6 · Democrat
- Thomas Bayly District 7 · Democrat
- George Hopkins District 13 · Democrat
- Robert Hunter District 8 · Democrat
- Shelton Leake District 5 · Democrat
- William Brown District 15 · Democrat
Wisconsin 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Morgan Martin District -1 · Democrat
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