29th United States Congress

Major events

• March 4, 1845: James K. Polk became President of the United States
• October 10, 1845: The Naval School opened in Annapolis, Maryland
• December 2, 1845: President Polk announced to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• April 25, 1846: Open conflict over border disputes of Texas's boundaries began the Mexican–American War

  Major legislation

• May 13, 1846: Mexican–American War declared, ch. 16,
• July 9, 1846: District of Columbia retrocession, ch. 35,
• July 30, 1846: Walker tariff, ch. 74,

  Treaties

• June 15, 1846: Oregon Treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca
• January 13, 1847: Treaty of Cahuenga ended the fighting in the Mexican–American War in California

  States admitted

• December 29, 1845: Texas admitted as the 28th state
• December 28, 1846: Iowa admitted as the 29th state

  Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: George M. Dallas
• President pro tempore: Willie P. Mangum, until March 4, 1845
• * Ambrose Hundley Sevier, only on December 27, 1845
• * David R. Atchison, from August 8, 1846

  House of Representatives

• Speaker: John W. Davis

  Members

Senate

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

• 2. Dixon H. Lewis
• 3. Arthur P. Bagby

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

• 2. Chester Ashley
• 3. Ambrose H. Sevier

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

• 1. Jabez W. Huntington
• 3. John M. Niles

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

• 1. John M. Clayton
• 2. Thomas Clayton

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

• 1. David Levy Yulee, from July 1, 1845
• 3. James Westcott, from July 1, 1845

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

• 2. John M. Berrien, until May, 1845; from November 13, 1845
• 3. Walter T. Colquitt

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

• 2. James Semple
• 3. Sidney Breese

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

• 1. Jesse D. Bright
• 3. Edward A. Hannegan

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

• 2. Vacant after being admitted to the Union December 28, 1846
• 3. Vacant after being admitted to the Union December 28, 1846

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

• 2. James T. Morehead
• 3. John J. Crittenden

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

• 2. Alexander Barrow, until December 29, 1846
• * Pierre Soulé, from January 21, 1847
• 3. Henry Johnson

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

• 1. John Fairfield
• 2. George Evans

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

• 1. Reverdy Johnson
• 3. James Pearce

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

• 1. Daniel Webster
• 2. Isaac C. Bates, until March 16, 1845
• * John Davis, from March 24, 1845

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

• 1. Lewis Cass
• 2. William Woodbridge

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

• 1. Jesse Speight
• 2. Robert J. Walker, until March 5, 1845
• * Joseph W. Chalmers, from November 3, 1845

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

• 1. Thomas H. Benton
• 3. David R. Atchison

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

• 2. Levi Woodbury, until September 20, 1845
• * Benning W. Jenness, from December 1, 1845, until June 13, 1846
• * Joseph Cilley, from June 13, 1846
• 3. Charles G. Atherton

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

• 1. William L. Dayton
• 2. Jacob W. Miller

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

• 1. Daniel S. Dickinson
• 3. John A. Dix

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

• 2. Willie P. Mangum
• 3. William H. Haywood, Jr., until July 25, 1846
• * George E. Badger, from November 26, 1846

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

• 1. Thomas Corwin
• 3. William Allen

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

• 1. Daniel Sturgeon
• 3. James Buchanan, until March 5, 1845
• * Simon Cameron, from March 13, 1845

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

• 1. Albert C. Greene
• 2. James F. Simmons

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

• 2. John C. Calhoun, from November 26, 1845
• 3. George McDuffie, until August 17, 1846
• * Andrew Butler, from December 4, 1846

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

• 1. Hopkins L. Turney
• 2. Spencer Jarnagin

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

• 1. Thomas J. Rusk, from February 21, 1846
• 2. Sam Houston, from February 21, 1846

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

• 1. Samuel S. Phelps
• 3. William Upham

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

• 1. Isaac S. Pennybacker, December 3, 1845 – January 12, 1847
• * James M. Mason, from January 21, 1847
• 2. William S. Archer

  House of Representatives

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

• . Edmund S. Dargan
• . Henry W. Hilliard
• . William L. Yancey, until September 1, 1846
• * James L. Cottrell, from December 7, 1846
• . William W. Payne
• . George S. Houston
• . Reuben Chapman
• . Felix G. McConnell, until September 10, 1846
• * Franklin W. Bowdon, from December 7, 1846

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

• . Archibald Yell, until July 1, 1846
• * Thomas W. Newton, from February 6, 1847

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

• . James Dixon
• . Samuel D. Hubbard
• . John A. Rockwell
• . Truman Smith

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

• . John W. Houston

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

• . Edward C. Cabell, from October 6, 1845, until January 24, 1846
• * William H. Brockenbrough, from January 24, 1846

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

• . Thomas B. King
• . Seaborn Jones
• . George W. B. Towns, from January 5, 1846
• . Hugh A. Haralson
• . John H. Lumpkin
• . Howell Cobb
• . Alexander H. Stephens
• . Robert A. Toombs

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

• . Robert Smith
• . John A. McClernand
• . Orlando B. Ficklin
• . John Wentworth
• . Stephen A. Douglas, until March 3, 1847
• . Joseph P. Hoge
• . Edward D. Baker, until January 15, 1847
• * John Henry, from February 5, 1847

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

• . Robert D. Owen
• . Thomas J. Henley
• . Thomas Smith
• . Caleb B. Smith
• . William W. Wick
• . John W. Davis
• . Edward W. McGaughey
• . John Pettit
• . Charles W. Cathcart
• . Andrew Kennedy

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

• . S. Clifton Hastings, from December 28, 1846
• . Shepherd Leffler, from December 28, 1846

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

• . Linn Boyd
• . John H. McHenry
• . Henry Grider
• . Joshua F. Bell
• . Bryan R. Young
• . John P. Martin
• . William P. Thomasson
• . Garrett Davis
• . Andrew A. Trumbo
• . John W. Tibbatts

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

• . John Slidell, until November 10, 1845
• * Emile La Sére, from January 29, 1846
• . Bannon G. Thibodeaux
• . John H. Harmanson
• . Isaac E. Morse

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

• . John F. Scamman
• . Robert P. Dunlap
• . Luther Severance
• . John D. McCrate
• . Cullen Sawtelle
• . Hannibal Hamlin
• . Hezekiah Williams

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

• . John G. Chapman
• . Thomas J. Perry
• . Thomas W. Ligon
• . William F. Giles
• . Albert Constable
• . Edward H. C. Long

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

• . Robert C. Winthrop
• . Daniel P. King
• . Amos Abbott
• . Benjamin Thompson
• . Charles Hudson
• . George Ashmun
• . Julius Rockwell
• . John Quincy Adams
• . Artemas Hale
• . Joseph Grinnell

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

• . Robert McClelland
• . John S. Chipman
• . James B. Hunt

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

• . Stephen Adams
• . Jefferson Davis, until October 28, 1846
• * Henry T. Ellett, from January 26, 1847
• . Robert W. Roberts
• . Jacob Thompson

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

• . James B. Bowlin
• . John S. Phelps
• . Sterling Price, until August 12, 1846
• * William McDaniel, from December 7, 1846
• . James H. Relfe
• . Leonard H. Sims

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

• . James H. Johnson
• . Mace Moulton
• . Moses Norris, Jr.
• . Vacant

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

• . James G. Hampton
• . Samuel G. Wright, until July 30, 1845
• * George Sykes, from November 4, 1845
• . John Runk
• . Joseph E. Edsall
• . William Wright

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

• . John W. Lawrence
• . Henry J. Seaman
• . William S. Miller
• . William B. Maclay
• . Thomas M. Woodruff
• . William W. Campbell
• . Joseph H. Anderson
• . William W. Woodworth
• . Archibald C. Niven
• . Samuel Gordon
• . John F. Collin
• . Richard P. Herrick, until June 20, 1846
• * Thomas C. Ripley, from December 17, 1846
• . Bradford R. Wood
• . Erastus D. Culver
• . Joseph Russell
• . Hugh White
• . Charles S. Benton
• . Preston King
• . Orville Hungerford
• . Timothy Jenkins
• . Charles Goodyear
• . Stephen Strong
• . William J. Hough
• . Horace Wheaton
• . George O. Rathbun
• . Samuel S. Ellsworth
• . John De Mott
• . Elias B. Holmes
• . Charles H. Carroll
• . Martin Grover
• . Abner Lewis
• . William A. Moseley
• . Albert Smith
• . Washington Hunt

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

• . James Graham
• . Daniel M. Barringer
• . David S. Reid
• . Alfred Dockery
• . James C. Dobbin
• . James I. McKay
• . John R. J. Daniel
• . Henry S. Clark
• . Asa Biggs

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

• . James J. Faran
• . Francis A. Cunningham
• . Robert C. Schenck
• . Joseph Vance
• . William Sawyer
• . Henry St. John
• . Joseph J. McDowell
• . Allen G. Thurman
• . Augustus L. Perrill
• . Columbus Delano
• . Jacob Brinkerhoff
• . Samuel F. Vinton
• . Isaac Parrish
• . Alexander Harper
• . Joseph Morris
• . John D. Cummins
• . George Fries
• . David A. Starkweather
• . Daniel R. Tilden
• . Joshua R. Giddings
• . Joseph M. Root

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

• . Lewis C. Levin
• . Joseph R. Ingersoll
• . John H. Campbell
• . Charles J. Ingersoll
• . Jacob S. Yost
• . Jacob Erdman
• . Abraham R. McIlvaine
• . John Strohm
• . John Ritter
• . Richard Brodhead
• . Owen D. Leib
• . David Wilmot
• . James Pollock
• . Alexander Ramsey
• . Moses McClean
• . James Black
• . John Blanchard
• . Andrew Stewart
• . Henry D. Foster
• . John H. Ewing
• . Cornelius Darragh
• . William S. Garvin
• . James Thompson
• . Joseph Buffington

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

• . Henry Y. Cranston
• . Lemuel H. Arnold

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

• . James A. Black
• . Richard F. Simpson
• . Joseph A. Woodward
• . Alexander D. Sims
• . Armistead Burt
• . Isaac E. Holmes
• . R. Barnwell Rhett

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

• . Andrew Johnson
• . William M. Cocke
• . John H. Crozier
• . Alvan Cullom
• . George W. Jones
• . Barclay Martin
• . Meredith P. Gentry
• . Joseph H. Peyton, until November 11, 1845
• * Edwin H. Ewing, from January 2, 1846
• . Lucien B. Chase
• . Frederick P. Stanton
• . Milton Brown

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

• . David S. Kaufman, from March 30, 1846
• . Timothy Pilsbury, from March 30, 1846

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

• . Solomon Foot
• . Jacob Collamer
• . George P. Marsh
• . Paul Dillingham, Jr.

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

• . Archibald Atkinson
• . George C. Dromgoole
• . William M. Tredway
• . Edmund W. Hubard
• . Shelton F. Leake
• . James A. Seddon
• . Thomas H. Bayly
• . Robert M. T. Hunter
• . John S. Pendleton
• . Henry Bedinger
• . William Taylor, until January 17, 1846
• * James McDowell, from March 6, 1846
• . Augustus A. Chapman
• . George W. Hopkins
• . Joseph Johnson
• . William G. Brown, Sr.

  Non-voting members

• . Augustus C. Dodge, until December 28, 1846
• . Morgan L. Martin

Changes in membership

Senate

• replacements: 8
• * Democrats : no net change
• * Whigs : no net change
• deaths: 3
• resignations: 6
• interim appointments: 1
• seats of newly admitted states: 4
• Total seats with changes: 14

  House of Representatives

• replacements: 12
• * Democrats : 1 seat net gain
• * Whigs : 1 seat net loss
• deaths: 5
• resignations: 6
• contested election: 1
• seats of newly admitted states: 4
• Total seats with changes: 17

  Committees

Senate

• Agriculture
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Charges of Corruption Contained in the Daily Times
• Claims
• Commerce
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States
• District of Columbia
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• French Spoilations
• Indian Affairs
• International Copyright Law
• Judiciary
• Manufactures
• Memorial on W.T.G. Morton
• Memphis Convention
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Naval Affairs
• Ordnance and War Ships
• Patents and the Patent Office
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Printing
• Private Land Claims
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Retrenchment
• Revolutionary Claims
• Roads and Canals
• Tariff Regulation
• Territories
• Smithsonian Institution
• Whole

  House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Claims
• Commerce
• District of Columbia
• Elections
• Engraving
• 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
• Invalid Pensions
• Judiciary
• Manufactures
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Private Land Claims
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Expenditures
• Public Lands
• Revisal and Unfinished Business
• Revolutionary Claims
• Revolutionary Pensions
• Roads and Canals
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• Ways and Means
• Whole

  Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills
• The Library
• Printing
• Smithsonian Bequest

  Employees

• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

  Senate

• Chaplain: Septimus Tustin, until December 16, 1846
• * Henry Slicer, elected December 16, 1846
• Secretary: Asbury Dickins
• Sergeant at Arms: Edward Dyer, died September 8, 1845
• * Robert Beale, elected December 9, 1845

  House of Representatives

• Chaplain: William H. Milburn, elected December 3, 1845
• * William T.S. Sprole, elected December 7, 1846
• Clerk: Benjamin B. French
• Doorkeeper: Cornelius C. Whitney, elected December 3, 1845
• Postmaster: John M. Johnson
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: Newton Lane