33rd Congress (1853–1855): members and party control
1853-03-04 to 1855-03-04. 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, 7 representatives
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick Senator · Democrat
- Clement Clay, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- James Abercrombie District 2 · Whig
- Philip Phillips District 1 · Democrat
- Sampson Harris District 3 · Democrat
- William Smith District 4 · Democrat
- James Dowdell District 7 · Democrat
- Williamson Cobb District 6 · Democrat
- George Houston District 5 · Democrat
Arkansas 3 senators, 2 representatives
- Solon Borland Senator · Democrat
- Robert Johnson Senator · Democrat
- William Sebastian Senator · Democrat
- Alfred Greenwood District 1 · Democrat
- Edward Warren District 2 · Democrat
California 2 senators, 2 representatives
- John B. Weller Senator · Democrat
- William Gwin Senator · Democrat
- Milton Latham District -1 · Democrat
- James McDougall District -1 · Democrat
Connecticut 3 senators, 4 representatives
- Truman Smith Senator · Whig
- Isaac Toucey Senator · Democrat
- Francis Gillette Senator · Free Soil
- Nathan Belcher District 3 · Democrat
- Colin Ingersoll District 2 · Democrat
- James Pratt District 1 · Democrat
- Origen Seymour District 4 · Democrat
Delaware 2 senators, 1 representatives
- John Clayton Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- James Bayard, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- George Riddle At-large · Democrat
Florida 2 senators, 1 representatives
- Jackson Morton Senator · Whig
- Stephen Mallory Senator · Democrat
- Augustus Maxwell District 1 · Democrat
Georgia 2 senators, 8 representatives
- William Dawson Senator · Whig
- Robert Toombs Senator · Democrat
- David Bailey District 3 · Democrat
- Elijah Chastain District 5 · Democrat
- William Dent District 4 · Democrat
- Junius Hillyer District 6 · Democrat
- David Reese District 7 · Whig
- James Seward District 1 · Democrat
- Alexander Stephens District 8 · Whig
- Alfred Colquitt District 2 · Democrat
Illinois 2 senators, 9 representatives
- Stephen Douglas Senator · Democrat
- James Shields Senator · Democrat
- Willis Allen District 9 · Democrat
- William Bissell District 8 · Ind. Democrat
- James Knox District 4 · Whig
- James Allen District 7 · Democrat
- Jesse Norton District 3 · Whig
- William Richardson District 5 · Democrat
- John Wentworth District 2 · Democrat
- Richard Yates District 6 · Whig
- Elihu Washburne District 1 · Whig
Indiana 3 senators, 11 representatives
- Charles Cathcart Senator · Democrat
- John Pettit Senator · Democrat
- Jesse Bright Senator · Democrat
- Ebenezer Chamberlain District 10 · Democrat
- Cyrus Dunham District 3 · Democrat
- Norman Eddy District 9 · Democrat
- Andrew Harlan District 11 · Democrat
- Samuel Parker District 5 · Whig
- Daniel Mace District 8 · Democrat
- Smith Miller District 1 · Democrat
- John Davis District 7 · Democrat
- William English District 2 · Democrat
- Thomas Hendricks District 6 · Democrat
- James Lane District 4 · Democrat
Iowa 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Augustus Dodge Senator · Democrat
- George Jones Senator · Democrat
- John Cook District 2 · Whig
- Bernhart Henn District 1 · Democrat
Kansas 0 senators, 1 representatives
- John Whitfield District -1 · Democrat
Kentucky 2 senators, 11 representatives
- Archibald Dixon Senator · Whig
- John Thompson Senator · American
- Linn Boyd District 1 · Democrat
- James Chrisman District 4 · Democrat
- Presley Ewing District 3 · Whig
- Benjamin Grey District 2 · Whig
- Clement Hill District 5 · Whig
- William Preston District 7 · Whig
- Richard Stanton District 10 · Democrat
- Leander Cox District 9 · Whig
- John Elliott District 6 · Democrat
- Francis Bristow District 3 · Whig
- John Breckinridge District 8 · Democrat
Louisiana 3 senators, 4 representatives
- Pierre Soulé Senator · Democrat
- John Slidell Senator · Democrat
- Judah Benjamin Senator · Democrat
- William Dunbar District 1 · Democrat
- Theodore Hunt District 2 · Whig
- Roland Jones District 4 · Democrat
- John Perkins, Jr. District 3 · Democrat
Maine 2 senators, 6 representatives
- William Fessenden Senator · Republican
- Hannibal Hamlin Senator · Democrat
- Ephraim Farley District 3 · Whig
- Moses Macdonald District 1 · Democrat
- Samuel Mayall District 2 · Democrat
- Samuel Benson District 4 · Whig
- Thomas Fuller District 6 · Democrat
- Israel Washburn, Jr. District 5 · Whig
Maryland 2 senators, 6 representatives
- Thomas Pratt Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- James Pearce Senator · Whig
- John Franklin District 1 · Whig
- Jacob Shower District 2 · Democrat
- Augustus Sollers District 6 · Whig
- Joshua Van Sant District 3 · Democrat
- Henry May District 4 · Democrat
- William Hamilton District 5 · Democrat
Massachusetts 3 senators, 12 representatives
- Edward Everett Senator · Whig
- Julius Rockwell Senator · Whig
- Charles Sumner Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- Samuel Crocker District 2 · Whig
- Edward Dickinson District 10 · Whig
- John Edmands District 3 · Whig
- John Goodrich District 11 · Whig
- Zeno Scudder District 1 · Whig
- Charles Upham District 6 · Whig
- Samuel Walley District 4 · Whig
- Tappan Wentworth District 8 · Whig
- Alexander De Witt District 9 · Free Soil
- William Appleton District 5 · Whig
- Thomas Eliot District 1 · Whig
- Nathaniel Banks District 7 · Democrat
Michigan 2 senators, 4 representatives
- Lewis Cass Senator · Democrat
- Charles Stuart Senator · Democrat
- Samuel Clark District 3 · Democrat
- David Noble District 2 · Democrat
- Hestor Stevens District 4 · Democrat
- David Stuart District 1 · Democrat
Minnesota 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Henry Rice District -1 · Democrat
Mississippi 2 senators, 5 representatives
- Stephen Adams Senator · Democrat
- Albert Brown Senator · Democrat
- William Barry District 2 · Democrat
- Wiley Harris District 4 · Democrat
- Daniel Wright District 1 · Democrat
- William Barksdale District -1 · Democrat
- Otho Singleton District 3 · Democrat
Missouri 2 senators, 7 representatives
- David Atchison Senator · Democrat
- Henry Geyer Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- Thomas Benton District 1 · Democrat
- Alfred Lamb District 2 · Democrat
- James Lindley District 3 · Whig
- John Miller District 5 · Whig
- Mordecai Oliver District 4 · Whig
- Samuel Caruthers District 7 · Whig
- John Phelps District 6 · Democrat
Nebraska 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Napoleon Giddings District -1 · Democrat
New Hampshire 3 senators, 3 representatives
- Moses Norris, Jr. Senator · Democrat
- Charles Atherton Senator · Democrat
- Jared Williams Senator · Democrat
- Harry Hibbard District 3 · Democrat
- George Kittredge District 1 · Democrat
- George Morrison District 2 · Democrat
New Jersey 3 senators, 5 representatives
- Robert Stockton Senator · Democrat
- John Thomson Senator · Democrat
- William Wright Senator · Democrat
- Samuel Lilly District 3 · Democrat
- Charles Skelton District 2 · Democrat
- Nathan Stratton District 1 · Democrat
- Alexander Pennington District 5 · Whig
- George Vail District 4 · Democrat
New Mexico 0 senators, 1 representatives
- José Gallegos District -1 · Democrat
New York 2 senators, 38 representatives
- Hamilton Fish Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- William Seward Senator · Whig
- Azariah Boody District 29 · Whig
- Davis Carpenter District 29 · Whig
- Dudley Chase District -1 · Whig
- George Chase District 19 · Whig
- Thomas Cumming District 2 · Democrat
- Francis Cutting District 8 · Democrat
- Gilbert Dean District 12 · Democrat
- George Hastings District 28 · Democrat
- Charles Hughes District 15 · Democrat
- Daniel Jones District 24 · Democrat
- Caleb Lyon District 23 · Independent
- James Maurice District 1 · Democrat
- William Murray District 10 · Democrat
- Jared Peck District 9 · Democrat
- Rufus Peckham District 14 · Democrat
- Bishop Perkins District 17 · Democrat
- Peter Rowe District 18 · Democrat
- Gerrit Smith District 22 · Free Soil
- John Taylor District 27 · Democrat
- Isaac Teller District 12 · Whig
- William Tweed District 5 · Democrat
- Hiram Walbridge District 3 · Democrat
- William Walker District 7 · Democrat
- Michael Walsh District 4 · Democrat
- Theodoric Westbrook District 11 · Democrat
- William Cumback District -1 · Democrat
- Thomas Flagler District 31 · Whig
- Solomon Haven District 32 · Whig
- Andrew Oliver District 26 · Democrat
- Benjamin Pringle District 30 · Whig
- Russell Sage District 13 · Whig
- George Simmons District 16 · Whig
- John Wheeler District 6 · Democrat
- Henry Bennett District 21 · Whig
- Henry Goodwin District 22 · Whig
- Orsamus Matteson District 20 · Whig
- Edwin Morgan District 25 · Whig
- Reuben Fenton District 33 · Democrat
North Carolina 2 senators, 8 representatives
- George Badger Senator · Whig
- David Reid Senator · Democrat
- William Ashe District 3 · Democrat
- John Kerr, Jr. District 5 · Whig
- Richard Puryear District 6 · Whig
- Henry Shaw District 1 · Democrat
- Thomas Clingman District 8 · Democrat
- Francis Craige District 7 · Democrat
- Thomas Ruffin District 2 · Democrat
- Sion Rogers District 4 · Whig
Ohio 2 senators, 21 representatives
- Salmon Chase Senator · Free Soil
- Benjamin Wade Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- Moses Corwin District 8 · Whig
- David Disney District 1 · Democrat
- Alfred Edgerton District 5 · Democrat
- Andrew Ellison District 6 · Democrat
- Frederick Green District 9 · Democrat
- Harvey Johnson District 14 · Democrat
- William Lindsley District 13 · Democrat
- Edson Olds District 12 · Democrat
- Thomas Ritchey District 11 · Democrat
- Wilson Shannon District 17 · Democrat
- Andrew Stuart District 21 · Democrat
- John Taylor District 10 · Whig
- Edward Ball District 16 · Whig
- John Harrison District 2 · Whig
- William Sapp District 15 · Whig
- Joshua Giddings District 20 · Free Soil
- Aaron Harlan District 7 · Whig
- Matthias H. Nichols District 4 · Democrat
- Edward Wade District 19 · Free Soil
- George Bliss District 18 · Democrat
- Lewis Campbell District 3 · Whig
Oregon 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Joseph Lane District -1 · Democrat
Pennsylvania 2 senators, 26 representatives
- James Cooper Senator · Whig
- Richard Brodhead Senator · Democrat
- Joseph Chandler District 2 · Whig
- Augustus Drum District 19 · Democrat
- William Everhart District 6 · Whig
- James Gamble District 15 · Democrat
- Isaac Hiester District 9 · Whig
- Thomas Howe District 22 · Whig
- William Kurtz District 16 · Democrat
- John McCulloch District 18 · Whig
- John McNair District 5 · Democrat
- Ner Middleswarth District 10 · Whig
- Henry Muhlenberg District 8 · Democrat
- Samuel Russell District 17 · Whig
- Christian Straub District 11 · Democrat
- Michael Trout District 23 · Democrat
- William Witte District 4 · Democrat
- Asa Packer District 13 · Democrat
- Jehu Jones District 8 · Democrat
- David Ritchie District 21 · Whig
- John Dick District 25 · Whig
- Thomas Florence District 1 · Democrat
- John Dawson District 20 · Democrat
- Carlton Curtis District 24 · Democrat
- John Robbins District 3 · Democrat
- Samuel Bridges District 7 · Democrat
- Hendrick Wright District 12 · Democrat
- Galusha Grow District 14 · Democrat
Rhode Island 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Charles James Senator · Democrat
- Philip Allen Senator · Democrat
- Thomas Davis District 1 · Democrat
- Benjamin Thurston District 2 · Democrat
South Carolina 2 senators, 6 representatives
- Josiah Evans Senator · Democrat
- Andrew Butler Senator · Democrat
- William Aiken District 2 · Democrat
- Preston Brooks District 4 · Democrat
- James Orr District 5 · Democrat
- William Boyce District 6 · Democrat
- Laurence Keitt District 3 · Democrat
- John McQueen District 1 · Democrat
Tennessee 2 senators, 11 representatives
- James Jones Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- John Bell Senator · American
- Robert Bugg District 7 · Whig
- Brookins Campbell District 1 · Democrat
- William Churchwell District 2 · Democrat
- William Cullom District 4 · Whig
- Frederick Stanton District 10 · Democrat
- George Jones District 6 · Democrat
- Charles Ready District 5 · Whig
- Samuel Smith District 3 · Democrat
- Felix Zollicoffer District 8 · Whig
- Emerson Etheridge District 9 · Whig
- Nathaniel Taylor District 1 · Whig
Texas 2 senators, 2 representatives
- Thomas Rusk Senator · Democrat
- Samuel Houston Senator · American
- George Smyth District 1 · Democrat
- Peter Bell District 2 · Democrat
Utah 0 senators, 1 representatives
- John Bernhisel District -1 · Whig
Vermont 4 senators, 3 representatives
- William Upham Senator · Whig
- Samuel Phelps Senator · Whig
- Lawrence Brainerd Senator · Free Soil
- Solomon Foot Senator · Ind. Republican-Democrat
- Andrew Tracy District 2 · Whig
- James Meacham District 1 · Whig
- Alvah Sabin District 3 · Whig
Virginia 2 senators, 14 representatives
- James Mason Senator · Democrat
- Robert Hunter Senator · Democrat
- Charles Lewis District 11 · Democrat
- John Snodgrass District 11 · Democrat
- Thomas Bayly District 1 · Democrat
- Zedekiah Kidwell District 10 · Democrat
- Fayette McMullen District 13 · Democrat
- John Caskie District 3 · Democrat
- John Letcher District 9 · Democrat
- Paulus Powell District 6 · Democrat
- Thomas Bocock District 5 · Democrat
- Henry Edmundson District 12 · Democrat
- William Goode District 4 · Democrat
- John Millson District 2 · Democrat
- William Smith District 7 · Democrat
- Charles Faulkner District 8 · Democrat
Washington 0 senators, 1 representatives
- Columbia Lancaster District -1 · Democrat
Wisconsin 2 senators, 3 representatives
- Isaac Walker Senator · Democrat
- Henry Dodge Senator · Democrat
- Ben C. Eastman District 2 · Democrat
- John B. Macy District 3 · Democrat
- Daniel Wells, Jr. District 1 · Democrat
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