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The Twenty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1841, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President Martin Van Buren.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.


 * See also: 26th Congress - state detail''

Dates of sessions
March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 Previous congress: 25th Congress - general Next congress: 27th Congress - general
 * First session: December 2, 1839 - July 21, 1840
 * Second session: December 7, 1840 - March 3, 1841 — a lame duck session''

Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Leadership

 * Senate


 * Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate):
 * Richard M. Johnson, Democratic of Kentucky
 * President pro tempore of the Senate:
 * William R. King, Democratic of Alabama, elected December 2, 1839
 * House of Representatives


 * Speaker of the House
 * Robert M.T. Hunter, Democratic of Virginia, elected December 16, 1839

Major events

 * Main article: Events of 1839; Events of 1840; Events of 1841

Major legislation

 * ''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 26th Congress

Membership highlights by chamber
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

Senate
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1844; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1840; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1842.


 * ''See also: Category:United States Senators
 * ''See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.


 * ''See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives
 * ''See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

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 * Alabama
 * Alabama


 * Alabama's 1st congressional district: Reuben Chapman (D)
 * Alabama's 2nd congressional district: David Hubbard (D)
 * Alabama's 3rd congressional district: George W. Crabb (W)
 * Alabama's 4th congressional district: Dixon H. Lewis (D)
 * Alabama's 5th congressional district: James Dellet (W)
 * Arkansas


 * Arkansas's at-large congressional district: Edward Cross (D)
 * Connecticut


 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: Joseph Trumbull (W)
 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: William L. Storrs (W)
 * William W. Boardman (W)
 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: Thomas W. Williams (W)
 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: Thomas B. Osborne (W)
 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: Truman Smith (W)
 * Connecticut's at-large congressional district: John H. Brockway (W)
 * Delaware


 * Delaware's at-large congressional district: Thomas Robinson, Jr. (D)
 * Georgia


 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Julius C. Alford (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Edward J. Black (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Walter T. Colquitt (W)
 * Hines Holt (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Mark A. Cooper (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: William C. Dawson (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Richard W. Habersham (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Thomas Butler King (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Eugenius A. Nisbet (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Lott Warren (W)
 * Illinois


 * Illinois's 1st congressional district: John Reynolds (D)
 * Illinois's 2nd congressional district: Zadok Casey (D)
 * Illinois's 3rd congressional district: John T. Stuart (W)
 * Indiana


 * Indiana's 1st congressional district: George H. Proffit (W)
 * Indiana's 2nd congressional district: John W. Davis (D)
 * Indiana's 3rd congressional district: John Carr (D)
 * Indiana's 4th congressional district: Thomas Smith (D)
 * Indiana's 5th congressional district: James Rariden (W)
 * Indiana's 6th congressional district: William W. Wick (D)
 * Indiana's 7th congressional district: Tilghman A. Howard (D)
 * Henry S. Lane (W)
 * Kentucky


 * Kentucky's 1st congressional district: Linn Boyd (D)
 * Kentucky's 2nd congressional district: Philip Triplett (W)
 * Kentucky's 3rd congressional district: Joseph R. Underwood (W)
 * Kentucky's 4th congressional district: Sherrod Williams (W)
 * Kentucky's 5th congressional district: Simeon H. Anderson (W)
 * John B. Thompson (W)
 * Kentucky's 6th congressional district: Willis Green (W)
 * Kentucky's 7th congressional district: John Pope (W)
 * Kentucky's 8th congressional district: William J. Graves (W)
 * Kentucky's 9th congressional district: John White (W)
 * Kentucky's 10th congressional district: Richard Hawes (W)
 * Kentucky's 11th congressional district: Landaff W. Andrews (W)
 * Kentucky's 12th congressional district: Garrett Davis (W)
 * Kentucky's 13th congressional district: William O. Butler (D)
 * Louisiana


 * Louisiana's 1st congressional district: Edward D. White (W)
 * Louisiana's 2nd congressional district: Thomas W. Chinn (W)
 * Louisiana's 3rd congressional district: Rice Garland (W)
 * John Moore (W)
 * Maine


 * Maine's 1st congressional district: Nathan Clifford (D)
 * Maine's 2nd congressional district: Albert Smith (D)
 * Maine's 3rd congressional district: Benjamin Randall (W)
 * Maine's 4th congressional district: George Evans (W)
 * Maine's 5th congressional district: Virgil D. Parris (D)
 * Maine's 6th congressional district: Hugh J. Anderson (D)
 * Maine's 7th congressional district: Joshua A. Lowell (D)
 * Maine's 8th congressional district: Thomas Davee (D)
 * Maryland


 * Maryland's 1st congressional district: John Dennis (W)
 * Maryland's 2nd congressional district: Philip F. Thomas (D)
 * Maryland's 3rd congressional district: John T. H. Worthington (D)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district: James Carroll (D)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district: Solomon Hillen, Jr. (D)
 * Maryland's 5th congressional district: William Cost Johnson (W)
 * Maryland's 6th congressional district: Francis Thomas (D)
 * Maryland's 7th congressional district: Daniel Jenifer (W)
 * Massachusetts


 * Massachusetts's 1st congressional district: Abbott Lawrence (W)
 * Robert C. Winthrop (W)
 * Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district: Leverett Saltonstall (W)
 * Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district: Caleb Cushing (W)
 * Massachusetts's 4th congressional district: William Parmenter (D)
 * Massachusetts's 5th congressional district: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (W)
 * Massachusetts's 6th congressional district: James C. Alvord (W)
 * Osmyn Baker (W)
 * Massachusetts's 7th congressional district: George N. Briggs (W)
 * Massachusetts's 8th congressional district: William B. Calhoun (W)
 * Massachusetts's 9th congressional district: William S. Hastings (W)
 * Massachusetts's 10th congressional district: Henry Williams (D)
 * Massachusetts's 11th congressional district: John Reed, Jr. (W)
 * Massachusetts's 12th congressional district: John Quincy Adams (W)
 * Michigan
 * Michigan


 * Michigan's at-large congressional district: Isaac E. Crary (D)
 * Mississippi


 * Mississippi's at-large congressional district: Albert G. Brown (D)
 * Mississippi's at-large congressional district: Jacob Thompson (D)
 * Missouri


 * Missouri's at-large congressional district: Albert G. Harrison (D)
 * John Jameson (D)
 * Missouri's at-large congressional district: John Miller (D)
 * New Hampshire


 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Charles G. Atherton (D)
 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Edmund Burke (D)
 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Ira A. Eastman (D)
 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Tristram Shaw (D)
 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Jared W. Williams (D)
 * New Jersey


 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: William R. Cooper (D)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Philemon Dickerson (D)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Joseph Kille (D)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Joseph F. Randolph (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Daniel B. Ryall (D)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Peter D. Vroom (D)
 * New York


 * New York's 1st congressional district: Thomas B. Jackson (D)
 * New York's 2nd congressional district: James De la Montanya (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: Edward Curtis (W)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: Moses H. Grinnell (W)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: Ogden Hoffman (W)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: James Monroe (W)
 * New York's 4th congressional district: Gouverneur Kemble (D)
 * New York's 5th congressional district: Charles Johnston (W)
 * New York's 6th congressional district: Nathaniel Jones (D)
 * New York's 7th congressional district: Rufus Palen (W)
 * New York's 8th congressional district: John Ely (D)
 * New York's 8th congressional district: Aaron Vanderpoel (D)
 * New York's 9th congressional district: Hiram P. Hunt (W)
 * New York's 10th congressional district: Daniel D. Barnard (W)
 * New York's 11th congressional district: Anson Brown (W)
 * Nicholas B. Doe (W)
 * New York's 12th congressional district: David A. Russell (W)
 * New York's 13th congressional district: Augustus C. Hand (D)
 * New York's 14th congressional district: John Fine (D)
 * New York's 15th congressional district: Peter J. Wagner (W)
 * New York's 16th congressional district: Andrew W. Doig (D)
 * New York's 17th congressional district: David P. Brewster (D)
 * New York's 17th congressional district: John G. Floyd (D)
 * New York's 18th congressional district: Thomas C. Chittenden (W)
 * New York's 19th congressional district: John H. Prentiss (D)
 * New York's 20th congressional district: Judson Allen (D)
 * New York's 21st congressional district: John C. Clark (W)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district: Amasa Dana (D)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district: Stephen B. Leonard (D)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district: Nehemiah H. Earll (D)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district: Edward Rogers (D)
 * New York's 24th congressional district: Christopher Morgan (W)
 * New York's 25th congressional district: Theron R. Strong (D)
 * New York's 26th congressional district: Francis Granger (W)
 * New York's 27th congressional district: Meredith Mallory (D)
 * New York's 28th congressional district: Thomas Kempshall (W)
 * New York's 29th congressional district: Seth M. Gates (W)
 * New York's 30th congressional district: Luther C. Peck (W)
 * New York's 31st congressional district: Richard P. Marvin (W)
 * New York's 32nd congressional district: Millard Fillmore (W)
 * New York's 33rd congressional district: Charles F. Mitchell (W)
 * North Carolina


 * North Carolina's 1st congressional district: Kenneth Rayner (W)
 * North Carolina's 2nd congressional district: Jesse A. Bynum (D)
 * North Carolina's 3rd congressional district: Edward Stanly (W)
 * North Carolina's 4th congressional district: Charles B. Shepard (D)
 * North Carolina's 5th congressional district: James I. McKay (D)
 * North Carolina's 6th congressional district: Micajah T. Hawkins (D)
 * North Carolina's 7th congressional district: Edmund Deberry (W)
 * North Carolina's 8th congressional district: William Montgomery (D)
 * North Carolina's 9th congressional district: John Hill (D)
 * North Carolina's 10th congressional district: Charles Fisher (D)
 * North Carolina's 11th congressional district: Henry W. Connor (D)
 * North Carolina's 12th congressional district: James Graham (W)
 * North Carolina's 13th congressional district: Lewis Williams (W)
 * Ohio


 * Ohio's 1st congressional district: Alexander Duncan (D)
 * Ohio's 2nd congressional district: John B. Weller (D)
 * Ohio's 3rd congressional district: Patrick G. Goode (W)
 * Ohio's 4th congressional district: Thomas Corwin (W)
 * Jeremiah Morrow (W)
 * Ohio's 5th congressional district: William Doan (D)
 * Ohio's 6th congressional district: Calvary Morris (W)
 * Ohio's 7th congressional district: William K. Bond (W)
 * Ohio's 8th congressional district: Joseph Ridgway (W)
 * Ohio's 9th congressional district: William Medill (D)
 * Ohio's 10th congressional district: Samson Mason (W)
 * Ohio's 11th congressional district: Isaac Parrish (D)
 * Ohio's 12th congressional district: Jonathan Taylor (D)
 * Ohio's 13th congressional district: Daniel P. Leadbetter (D)
 * Ohio's 14th congressional district: George Sweeny (D)
 * Ohio's 15th congressional district: John W. Allen (W)
 * Ohio's 16th congressional district: Joshua R. Giddings (W)
 * Ohio's 17th congressional district: John Hastings (D)
 * Ohio's 18th congressional district: David A. Starkweather (D)
 * Ohio's 19th congressional district: Henry Swearingen (D)
 * Pennsylvania
 * Pennsylvania


 * Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district: Lemuel Paynter (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district: John Sergeant (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district: George W. Toland (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district: Charles Naylor (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: Edward Davies (AM)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: John Edwards (AM)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: Francis James (AM)
 * Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district: Joseph Fornance (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district: John Davis (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district: David D. Wagener (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district: Peter Newhard (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district: George M. Keim (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district: William Simonton (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district: James Gerry (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district: James Cooper (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district: William S. Ramsey (D)
 * Charles McClure (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district: William W. Potter (D)
 * George McCulloch (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district: David Petrikin (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district: Robert H. Hammond (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district: Samuel W. Morris (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district: Charles Ogle (AM)
 * Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district: Albert G. Marchand (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district: Enos Hook (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district: Isaac Leet (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district: Richard Biddle (AM)
 * Henry M. Brackenridge (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district: William Beatty (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district: Thomas Henry (AM)
 * Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district: John Galbraith (D)
 * Rhode Island


 * Rhode Island's at-large congressional district: Robert B. Cranston (W)
 * Rhode Island's at-large congressional district: Joseph L. Tillinghast (W)
 * South Carolina


 * South Carolina's 1st congressional district: Isaac E. Holmes (D)
 * South Carolina's 2nd congressional district: R. Barnwell Rhett (D)
 * South Carolina's 3rd congressional district: John Campbell (D)
 * South Carolina's 4th congressional district: Sampson H. Butler (D)
 * South Carolina's 5th congressional district: Francis W. Pickens (D)
 * South Carolina's 6th congressional district: Waddy Thompson, Jr. (W)
 * South Carolina's 7th congressional district: James Rogers (D)
 * South Carolina's 8th congressional district: Thomas D. Sumter (D)
 * South Carolina's 9th congressional district: John K. Griffin (D)
 * Tennessee


 * Tennessee's 1st congressional district: William B. Carter (W)
 * Tennessee's 2nd congressional district: Abraham McClellan (D)
 * Tennessee's 3rd congressional district: Joseph L. Williams (W)
 * Tennessee's 4th congressional district: Julius W. Blackwell (D)
 * Tennessee's 5th congressional district: Hopkins L. Turney (D)
 * Tennessee's 6th congressional district: William B. Campbell (W)
 * Tennessee's 7th congressional district: John Bell (W)
 * Tennessee's 8th congressional district: Meredith P. Gentry (W)
 * Tennessee's 9th congressional district: Harvey M. Watterson (D)
 * Tennessee's 10th congressional district: Aaron V. Brown (D)
 * Tennessee's 11th congressional district: Cave Johnson (D)
 * Tennessee's 12th congressional district: John W. Crockett (W)
 * Tennessee's 13th congressional district: Christopher H. Williams (W)
 * Vermont


 * Vermont's 1st congressional district: Hiland Hall (W)
 * Vermont's 2nd congressional district: William Slade (W)
 * Vermont's 3rd congressional district: Horace Everett (W)
 * Vermont's 4th congressional district: John Smith (D)
 * Vermont's 5th congressional district: Isaac Fletcher (D)
 * Virginia


 * Virginia's 1st congressional district: Joel Holleman (D)
 * Francis Mallory (W)
 * Virginia's 2nd congressional district: Francis E. Rives (D)
 * Virginia's 3rd congressional district: John W. Jones (D)
 * Virginia's 4th congressional district: George C. Dromgoole (D)
 * Virginia's 5th congressional district: John Hill (W)
 * Virginia's 6th congressional district: Walter Coles (D)
 * Virginia's 7th congressional district: William L. Goggin (W)
 * Virginia's 8th congressional district: Henry A. Wise (W)
 * Virginia's 9th congressional district: Robert M. T. Hunter (W)
 * Virginia's 10th congressional district: John Taliaferro (W)
 * Virginia's 11th congressional district: John M. Botts (W)
 * Virginia's 12th congressional district: James Garland (C)
 * Virginia's 13th congressional district: Linn Banks (D)
 * Virginia's 14th congressional district: Charles F. Mercer (W)
 * William M. McCarty (W)
 * Virginia's 15th congressional district: William Lucas (D)
 * Virginia's 16th congressional district: Green B. Samuels (D)
 * Virginia's 17th congressional district: Robert Craig (D)
 * Virginia's 18th congressional district: George W. Hopkins (C)
 * Virginia's 19th congressional district: Andrew Beirne (D)
 * Virginia's 20th congressional district: Joseph Johnson (D)
 * Virginia's 21st congressional district: Lewis Steenrod (D)

Delegates

 * Florida Territory


 * Florida Territory's at-large congressional district: Charles Downing
 * Iowa Territory


 * Iowa Territory's at-large congressional district: William W. Chapman (D)
 * Iowa Territory's at-large congressional district: Augustus C. Dodge (D)
 * Wisconsin Territory


 * Wisconsin Territory's at-large congressional district: James D. Doty (D)
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Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.