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Home , Abram Trigg, Daniel Hiester, David Stone (politician), Ebenezer Mattoon, Elijah Paine, Elizur Goodrich

SEVENTH CONGRESS MARCH 4, 1801, TO MARCH 3, 1803

FIRST SESSION—December 7, 1801, to May 3, 1802 SECOND SESSION—December 6, 1802, to March 3, 1803 SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE—March 4, 1801, to March 5, 1801

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE —, of PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE—, 1 of Georgia; STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, 2 of SECRETARY OF THE SENATE—SAMUEL A. OTIS, of DOORKEEPER OF THE SENATE—JAMES MATHERS, of New York

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—, 3 of CLERK OF THE HOUSE—JOHN H. OSWALD, of ; JOHN BECKLEY, 4 of SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE—JOSEPH WHEATON, of Rhode Island DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE—THOMAS CLAXTON

CONNECTICUT James Jackson Daniel Hiester Joseph H. Nicholson SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Thomas Plater 6 Peter Early 7 Samuel Smith Uriah Tracy 12 Benjamin Taliaferro 8 Richard Sprigg, Jr. REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE 13 David Meriwether 9 Walter Bowie Samuel W. Dana John Davenport KENTUCKY MASSACHUSETTS SENATORS Roger Griswold SENATORS 5 14 Calvin Goddard John Brown Dwight Foster Elias Perkins John Breckinridge Jonathan Mason John C. Smith REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES John Bacon Thomas T. Davis Phanuel Bishop John Fowler DELAWARE SENATORS William H. Wells SENATORS Samuel White 15 John E. Howard 16 REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE William Hindman 10 Levi Lincoln 17 James A. Bayard Robert Wright 11 18 REPRESENTATIVES GEORGIA John Archer SENATORS John Campbell Abraham Baldwin John Dennis

1 Elected December 7, 1801; April 17, 1802. 7 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John 13 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rich- 2 Elected December 14, 1802; February 25, 1803; March Milledge, and took his seat January 10, 1803. ard Sprigg, Jr., and took his seat March 24, 1802. 2, 1803. 8 Resigned in 1802. 14 Resigned March 2, 1803. 3 Elected December 7, 1801. 9 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Ben- 15 Resigned August 20, 1801. 4 Elected December 7, 1801. jamin Taliaferro, and took his seat December 6, 1802. 16 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Silas 10 5 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rep- Reappointed to fill vacancy in term beginning March Lee, and took his seat December 6, 1802. 17 resentative-elect Elizur Goodrich (March 3, 1801, before 4, 1801, caused by failure of legislature to elect his suc- Resigned March 5, 1801, before Congress assembled the beginning of the congressional term), and took his cessor, and took his seat March 5, 1801. having been appointed Attorney General of the United 11 Elected to fill vacancy in term beginning March 4, States. seat December 7, 1801. 18 6 1801, and took his seat December 7, 1801. Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Levi Resigned in May 1802. 12 Resigned February 11, 1802. Lincoln, and took his seat January 11, 1802.

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MASSACHUSETTS—Continued David Stone REPRESENTATIVES—Continued REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS 38 Joseph B. Varnum Willis Alston Charles Pinckney 39 William Barry Grove Thomas Sumter 40 Archibald Henderson John Ewing Colhoun William H. Hill 41 Charles Johnson 31 REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Thomas Wynns 32 William Butler 19 James Holland Benjamin Huger 20 Nathaniel Macon Thomas Lowndes 21 Richard Stanford Thomas Moore 22 John Stanly John Rutledge, Jr. 42 REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Robert Williams Thomas Sumter 43 Abiel Foster Joseph Peirce 23 OHIO 33 24 TENNESSEE Samuel Hunt SENATORS Samuel Tenney SENATORS George B. Upham Vacant William Cocke REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Vacant SENATORS William Dickson PENNSYLVANIA VERMONT REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE SENATORS SENATORS John Condit James Ross 44 John Peter G. Muhlenberg 34 Stephen R. Bradley 45 William Helms George Logan 35 James Mott REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Henry Southard Lewis R. Morris Robert Brown NEW YORK Thomas Boude SENATORS VIRGINIA John A. Hanna Gouverneur Morris SENATORS John Armstrong 25 Stevens T. Mason De Witt Clinton 26 Joseph Hemphill William Hoge Wilson C. Nicholas REPRESENTATIVES William Jones REPRESENTATIVES John Bird 27 Richard Brent John P. Van Ness 28 Samuel J. Cabell Lucas C. Elmendorf John Stewart Thomas Claiborne Samuel L. Mitchill Isaac Van Horne Thomas Morris Henry Woods John Clopton John Smith John Dawson Thomas Tillotson 29 RHODE ISLAND William B. Giles Theodorus Bailey 30 Edwin Gray David Thomas SENATORS David Holmes Philip Van Cortlandt Theodore Foster George Jackson Killian K. Van Rensselaer Ray Greene 36 Anthony New Benjamin Walker Christopher Ellery 37 Thomas Newton, Jr. John Randolph NORTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE John Smith SENATORS Joseph Stanton, Jr. John Stratton Thomas Tillinghast John Taliaferro

19 Resigned June 12, 1801. 29 Resigned August 10, 1801, before Congress assembled, 37 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Ray 20 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Sam- having been appointed Secretary of State of New York. Greene, and took his seat December 7, 1801. uel Livermore, and took his seat December 7, 1801. 30 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Thom- 38 Resigned in 1801. 21 Resigned June 14, 1802. as Tillotson, and took his seat December 7, 1801. 39 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of 22 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of James 31 Died on July 23, 1802. Charles Pinckney, and took his seat December 19, 1801. Sheafe, and took his seat December 14, 1802. 32 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Charles 40 23 Died October 26, 1802. Resigned in 1802. 41 24 Johnson, and took his seat December 7, 1802. Elected on November 4, 1802, to fill vacancy caused Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Joseph 33 Admitted as a State into the Union, November 29, Peirce, and took his seat December 6, 1802. by death of John E. Colhoun. 25 Resigned February 5, 1802. 1802, from territory known as the ‘‘Northwest Territory,’’ 42 Resigned December 15, 1801, having been elected Sen- 26 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John which was originally ceded to the United States by the ator. Armstrong, and took his seat February 23, 1802. State of Virginia. 43 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Thom- 27 Resigned July 25, 1801, before Congress assembled. 34 Resigned June 30, 1801; attended special session of as Sumter, and took his seat January 24, 1803. 28 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John the Senate only, March 4-5, 1801. 44 Resigned September 1, 1801. Bird, and took his seat December 7, 1801; seat declared 35 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of 45 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Elijah forfeited January 17, 1803, because he had accepted and John Peter G. Muhlenberg, and took his seat December Paine, and took his seat December 7, 1801. exercised the office of major of , under authority 7, 1801; subsequently elected. of the United States, within the Territory of Columbia. 36 Resigned March 5, 1801. SEVENTH CONGRESS 61

Philip R. Thompson MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY 46 TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF 49 Abram Trigg DELEGATE THE RIVER OHIO John Trigg Narsworthy Hunter 47 DELEGATE Thomas M. Green 48 Paul Fearing 50

46 Formed by act of April 7, 1798, from territory ceded 48 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Narsworthy 50 Question raised as to his right to retain his seat after to the United States by the States of Georgia and South Hunter, and took his seat December 6, 1802. November 29, 1802, when the Territory was granted state- Carolina. 49 A portion of this Territory became the State of Ohio hood as the State of Ohio; no other representative appear- 47 Died March 11, 1802. and was granted statehood November 29, 1802. ing, was permitted to retain the seat.