20th United States Congress

Major events

• December 3, 1828: U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beat incumbent John Quincy Adams and was elected President of the United States

  Major legislation

• May 24, 1828: Tariff of Abominations, ch. 111,

  Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: John C. Calhoun
• President pro tempore: Samuel Smith

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Andrew Stevenson

  Members

Senate

[List of [United States Senators from Alabama|Alabama]]

• 2. William R. D. King
• 3. John McKinley

  Connecticut">List of United States Senators from Connecticut">Connecticut

• 1. Samuel A. Foote
• 3. Calvin Willey

  Delaware">List of United States Senators from Delaware">Delaware

• 1. Louis McLane
• 2. Henry M. Ridgely

  Georgia">List of United States Senators from Georgia">Georgia

• 2. Thomas W. Cobb, until November 7, 1828
• * Oliver H. Prince, from November 7, 1828
• 3. John Macpherson Berrien

  Illinois">List of United States Senators from Illinois">Illinois

• 2. Jesse B. Thomas
• 3. Elias K. Kane

  Indiana">List of United States Senators from Indiana">Indiana

• 1. James Noble
• 3. William Hendricks

  Kentucky">List of United States Senators from Kentucky">Kentucky

• 2. Richard M. Johnson
• 3. John Rowan

  Louisiana">List of United States Senators from Louisiana">Louisiana

• 2. Dominique J. Bouligny
• 3. Josiah S. Johnston

  Maine">List of United States Senators from Maine">Maine

• 1. Albion K. Parris, until August 26, 1828
• * John Holmes, from January 15, 1829
• 2. John Chandler

  Maryland">List of United States Senators from Maryland">Maryland

• 1. Samuel Smith
• 3. Ezekiel F. Chambers

  Massachusetts">List of United States Senators from Massachusetts">Massachusetts

• 1. Daniel Webster, from June 8, 1827
• 2. Nathaniel Silsbee

  Mississippi">List of United States Senators from Mississippi">Mississippi

• 1. Powhatan Ellis
• 2. Thomas H. Williams

  Missouri">List of United States Senators from Missouri">Missouri

• 1. Thomas H. Benton
• 3. David Barton

  New Hampshire">List of United States Senators from New Hampshire">New Hampshire

• 2. Samuel Bell
• 3. Levi Woodbury

  New Jersey">List of United States Senators from New Jersey">New Jersey

• 1. Ephraim Bateman, until January 12, 1829
• * Mahlon Dickerson, from January 30, 1829
• 2. Mahlon Dickerson, until January 30, 1829, vacant thereafter

  New York">List of United States Senators from New York">New York

• 1. Martin Van Buren, until December 20, 1828
• * Charles E. Dudley, from January 15, 1829
• 3. Nathan Sanford

  North Carolina">List of United States Senators from North Carolina">North Carolina

• 2. John Branch
• 3. Nathaniel Macon, until November 14, 1828
• * James Iredell Jr., from December 15, 1828

  Ohio">List of United States Senators from Ohio">Ohio

• 1. Benjamin Ruggles
• 3. William Henry Harrison, until May 20, 1828
• * Jacob Burnet, from December 10, 1828

  Pennsylvania">List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania

• 1. Isaac D. Barnard
• 3. William Marks

  Rhode Island">List of United States Senators from Rhode Island">Rhode Island

• 1. Asher Robbins
• 2. Nehemiah R. Knight

  South Carolina">List of United States Senators from South Carolina">South Carolina

• 2. Robert Y. Hayne
• 3. William Smith

  Tennessee">List of United States Senators from Tennessee">Tennessee

• 1. John H. Eaton
• 2. Hugh Lawson White

  Vermont">List of United States Senators from Vermont">Vermont

• 1. Horatio Seymour
• 3. Dudley Chase

  Virginia">List of United States Senators from Virginia">Virginia

• 1. John Tyler
• 2. Littleton W. Tazewell

  House of Representatives

[List of [United States Representatives from Alabama|Alabama]]

• . Gabriel Moore
• . John McKee
• . George W. Owen

  Connecticut">List of United States Representatives from Connecticut">Connecticut

• . John Baldwin
• . Noyes Barber
• . Ralph I. Ingersoll
• . Orange Merwin
• . Elisha Phelps
• . David Plant

  Delaware">List of United States Representatives from Delaware">Delaware

• . Kensey Johns Jr., from October 2, 1827

  Georgia">List of United States Representatives from Georgia">Georgia

• . Edward F. Tattnall, until sometime in 1827
• * George R. Gilmer, from October 1, 1827
• . John Forsyth, until November 7, 1827
• * Richard Henry Wilde, from November 17, 1827
• . Wiley Thompson
• . Wilson Lumpkin
• . Charles E. Haynes
• . Tomlinson Fort
• . John Floyd

  Illinois">List of United States Representatives from Illinois">Illinois

• . Joseph Duncan

  Indiana">List of United States Representatives from Indiana">Indiana

• . Thomas H. Blake
• . Jonathan Jennings
• . Oliver H. Smith

  Kentucky">List of United States Representatives from Kentucky">Kentucky

• . Henry Daniel
• . Thomas Metcalfe, until June 1, 1828
• * John Chambers, from December 1, 1828
• . James Clark
• . Robert P. Letcher
• . Robert L. McHatton
• . Joseph Lecompte
• . Thomas P. Moore
• . Richard A. Buckner
• . Charles A. Wickliffe
• . Joel Yancey
• . William S. Young, until September 20, 1827
• * John Calhoon, November 5, 1827 – November 7, 1827
• * Thomas Chilton, from December 22, 1827
• . Chittenden Lyon

  Louisiana">List of United States Representatives from Louisiana">Louisiana

• . Edward Livingston
• . Henry H. Gurley
• . William L. Brent

  Maine">List of United States Representatives from Maine">Maine

• . William Burleigh, until July 2, 1827
• * Rufus McIntire, from September 10, 1827
• . John Anderson
• . Joseph F. Wingate
• . Peleg Sprague
• . James W. Ripley
• . Jeremiah O'Brien
• . Samuel Butman

  Maryland">List of United States Representatives from Maryland">Maryland

• . Clement Dorsey
• . John C. Weems
• . George C. Washington
• . Michael C. Sprigg
• . John Barney
• . Peter Little
• . Levin Gale
• . John L. Kerr
• . Ephraim K. Wilson

  Massachusetts">List of United States Representatives from Massachusetts">Massachusetts

• . Daniel Webster, until May 30, 1827
• * Benjamin Gorham, from July 23, 1827
• . Benjamin W. Crowninshield
• . John Varnum
• . Edward Everett
• . John Davis
• . John Locke
• . Samuel C. Allen
• . Isaac C. Bates
• . Henry W. Dwight
• . John Bailey
• . Joseph Richardson
• . James L. Hodges
• . John Reed Jr.

  Mississippi">List of United States Representatives from Mississippi">Mississippi

• . William Haile, until September 12, 1828
• * Thomas Hinds, from October 21, 1828

  Missouri">List of United States Representatives from Missouri">Missouri

• . Edward Bates

  New Hampshire">List of United States Representatives from New Hampshire">New Hampshire

• . David Barker Jr.
• . Ichabod Bartlett
• . Titus Brown
• . Jonathan Harvey
• . Joseph Healy
• . Thomas Whipple Jr.

  New Jersey">List of United States Representatives from New Jersey">New Jersey

• . Lewis Condict
• . George Holcombe, until January 14, 1828
• * James F. Randolph, from December 1, 1828
• . Isaac Pierson
• . Samuel Swan
• . Hedge Thompson, until July 23, 1828
• * Thomas Sinnickson, from December 1, 1828
• . Ebenezer Tucker

  New York">List of United States Representatives from New York">New York

• . Silas Wood
• . John J. Wood
• . Churchill C. Cambreleng
• . Jeromus Johnson
• . Gulian C. Verplanck
• . Aaron Ward
• . Thomas J. Oakley, until May 9, 1828
• * Thomas Taber II, from November 5, 1828
• . John Hallock Jr.
• . George O. Belden
• . James Strong
• . John D. Dickinson
• . Stephen Van Rensselaer
• . Selah R. Hobbie
• . John I. De Graff
• . Samuel Chase
• . Henry R. Storrs
• . Michael Hoffman
• . Henry Markell
• . John W. Taylor
• . Henry C. Martindale
• . Richard Keese
• . Rudolph Bunner
• . Silas Wright Jr., until February 16, 1829, vacant thereafter
• . John C. Clark
• . John G. Stower
• . Jonas Earll Jr.
• . Nathaniel Garrow
• . David Woodcock
• . Dudley Marvin
• . John Maynard
• . Daniel D. Barnard
• . John Magee
• . David E. Evans, until May 2, 1827
• * Phineas L. Tracy, from November 5, 1827
• . Daniel G. Garnsey

  North Carolina">List of United States Representatives from North Carolina">North Carolina

• . Lemuel Sawyer
• . Willis Alston
• . Thomas H. Hall
• . John H. Bryan
• . Gabriel Holmes
• . Daniel Turner
• . John Culpepper
• . Daniel L. Barringer
• . Augustine H. Shepperd
• . John Long
• . Henry W. Connor
• . Samuel P. Carson
• . Lewis Williams

  Ohio">List of United States Representatives from Ohio">Ohio

• . James Findlay
• . John Woods
• . William McLean
• . Joseph Vance
• . William Russell
• . William Creighton Jr., until sometime in 1828
• * Francis S. Muhlenberg, from December 19, 1828
• . Samuel F. Vinton
• . William Wilson, until June 6, 1827
• * William Stanbery, from October 9, 1827
• . Philemon Beecher
• . John Davenport
• . John C. Wright
• . John Sloane
• . Elisha Whittlesey
• . Mordecai Bartley

  Pennsylvania">List of United States Representatives from Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania

• . Joel B. Sutherland
• . John Sergeant
• . Daniel H. Miller
• . Samuel Anderson
• . James Buchanan
• . Charles Miner
• . John B. Sterigere
• . Innis Green
• . William Addams
• . Joseph Fry Jr.
• . Samuel D. Ingham
• . George Wolf
• . George Kremer
• . Samuel McKean
• . Espy Van Horne
• . Adam King
• . William Ramsey
• . James Wilson
• . John Mitchell
• . Chauncey Forward
• . Andrew Stewart
• . Joseph Lawrence
• . Robert Orr Jr.
• . James S. Stevenson
• . Richard Coulter
• . Stephen Barlow

  Rhode Island">List of United States Representatives from Rhode Island">Rhode Island

• . Tristam Burges
• . Dutee J. Pearce

  South Carolina">List of United States Representatives from South Carolina">South Carolina

• . William Drayton
• . James Hamilton Jr.
• . Thomas R. Mitchell
• . William D. Martin
• . George McDuffie
• . Warren R. Davis
• . William T. Nuckolls
• . John Carter
• . Starling Tucker

  Tennessee">List of United States Representatives from Tennessee">Tennessee

• . John Blair
• . Pryor Lea
• . James C. Mitchell
• . Jacob C. Isacks
• . Robert Desha
• . James K. Polk
• . John Bell
• . John H. Marable
• . Davy Crockett

  Vermont">List of United States Representatives from Vermont">Vermont

• . Jonathan Hunt
• . Rollin C. Mallary
• . George E. Wales
• . Benjamin Swift
• . Daniel A. A. Buck

  Virginia">List of United States Representatives from Virginia">Virginia

• . Thomas Newton Jr.
• . James Trezvant
• . William S. Archer
• . Mark Alexander
• . John Randolph
• . Thomas Davenport
• . Nathaniel H. Claiborne
• . Burwell Bassett
• . Andrew Stevenson
• . William C. Rives
• . Philip P. Barbour
• . John Roane
• . John Taliaferro
• . Charles F. Mercer
• . John S. Barbour
• . William Armstrong
• . Robert Allen
• . Isaac Leffler
• . William McCoy
• . John Floyd
• . Lewis Maxwell
• . Alexander Smyth

  Non-voting members

• . Henry W. Conway, until November 9, 1827
• * Ambrose H. Sevier, from February 13, 1828
• . Joseph M. White
• . Austin E. Wing

Changes in membership

Senate

• replacements: 6
• *Anti-Jacksonian : no net change
• *Jacksonian : no net change
• deaths: 0
• resignations: 7
• interim appointments: 0
• Total seats with changes: 8

  House of Representatives

• replacements: 9
• *Anti-Jacksonian : 1-seat net loss
• *Jacksonian : 1-seat net gain
• deaths: 5
• resignations: 9
• contested election: 1
• Total seats with changes: 15

  Committees

Senate

• Agriculture
• Alabama Land Purchase
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Claims
• Commerce
• Debt Imprisonment Abolition
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States
• District of Columbia
• Engrossed Bills
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• French Spoilations
• Indian Affairs
• Judiciary
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Naval Affairs
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Private Land Claims
• Public Lands
• Revolutionary Officers
• Roads and Canals
• Tariff Regulation
• Vaccination
• Whole

  House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Assault on the President's Secretary
• American Colonization Society
• Claims
• Commerce
• District of Columbia
• Elections
• Ethics
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the State Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Expenditures on Public Buildings
• Foreign Affairs
• Indian Affairs
• Judiciary
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Military Pensions
• Naval Affairs
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Private Land Claims
• Public Expenditures
• Public Lands
• Revisal and Unfinished Business
• Revolutionary Claims
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• Ways and Means
• Whole

  Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills
• The Library
• To Prepare a Code of Laws for the District of Columbia

  Employees

Legislative branch agency">List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch">Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol: Charles Bulfinch
• Librarian of Congress: George Watterston

  Senate

• Chaplain: William Ryland
• Secretary: Walter Lowrie
• Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly

  House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Reuben Post
• Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
• Doorkeeper: Benjamin Birch
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn