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The Twenty-seventh 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, 1841 to March 3, 1843, during the administration of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the administration of his successor, U.S. President John Tyler.

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 Whig majority.

Dates of sessions
March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 Previous congress: 26th Congress - general Next congress: 28th Congress - general
 * Special session of the Senate: March 4, 1841 – March 15, 1841
 * First session: May 31, 1841 - September 13, 1841
 * Second session: December 6, 1841 - August 31, 1842
 * Third session: December 5, 1842 - March 3, 1843 — 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):
 * John Tyler, Whig of Virginia, succeeded to the presidency April 4, 1841, thereafter vacant.
 * President pro tempore of the Senate:
 * William R. King, Democratic of Alabama, elected March 4, 1841
 * Samuel L. Southard, Whig of New Jersey, elected March 11, 1841
 * Willie P. Mangum, Whig of North Carolina, elected May 31, 1842
 * House of Representatives


 * Speaker of the House
 * John D. White, Whig of Kentucky, elected May 31, 1841

Major events

 * Main article: Events of 1841; Events of 1842; Events of 1843


 * March 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison became President of the United States
 * April 4, 1841 John Tyler became President of the United States

Major legislation

 * ''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 27th Congress


 * April 19, 1841 - Bankruptcy Act of 1841, ch. 9, 5 Stat. 440
 * September 4, 1841 — Preemption Act of 1841, ch. 16,
 * August 30, 1842 - Tariff of 1842 ("Black Tariff"), ch. 270, 5 Stat. 548

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 in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1844; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1846; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this 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 at-large congressional district: Reuben Chapman (D)
 * Alabama's at-large congressional district: George S. Houston (D)
 * Alabama's at-large congressional district: Dixon H. Lewis (D)
 * Alabama's at-large congressional district: William W. Payne (D)
 * Alabama's at-large congressional district: Benjamin G. Shields (D)
 * 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 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: George B. Rodney (W)
 * Georgia


 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Julius C. Alford (W)
 * Edward J. Black (D)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: William C. Dawson (W)
 * Walter T. Colquitt (D)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Thomas F. Foster (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Roger L. Gamble (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Richard W. Habersham (W)
 * George W. Crawford (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Thomas Butler King (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: James A. Meriwether (W)
 * Georgia's at-large congressional district: Eugenius A. Nisbet (W)
 * Mark A. Cooper (D)
 * 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 (ID)
 * Illinois's 3rd congressional district: John T. Stuart (W)
 * Indiana


 * Indiana's 1st congressional district: George H. Proffit (W)
 * Indiana's 2nd congressional district: Richard W. Thompson (W)
 * Indiana's 3rd congressional district: Joseph L. White (W)
 * Indiana's 4th congressional district: James H. Cravens (W)
 * Indiana's 5th congressional district: Andrew Kennedy (D)
 * Indiana's 6th congressional district: David Wallace (W)
 * Indiana's 7th congressional district: 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: Bryan Y. Owsley (W)
 * Kentucky's 5th congressional district: 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: James C. Sprigg (W)
 * Kentucky's 9th congressional district: John White (W)
 * Kentucky's 10th congressional district: Thomas F. Marshall (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: John B. Dawson (D)
 * Louisiana's 3rd congressional district: John Moore (W)
 * Maine


 * Maine's 1st congressional district: Nathan Clifford (D)
 * Maine's 2nd congressional district: William Pitt Fessenden (W)
 * Maine's 3rd congressional district: Benjamin Randall (W)
 * Maine's 4th congressional district: George Evans (W)
 * David Bronson (W)
 * Maine's 5th congressional district: Nathaniel S. Littlefield (D)
 * Maine's 6th congressional district: Alfred Marshall (D)
 * Maine's 7th congressional district: Joshua A. Lowell (D)
 * Maine's 8th congressional district: Elisha H. Allen (W)
 * Maryland


 * Maryland's 1st congressional district: Isaac D. Jones (W)
 * Maryland's 2nd congressional district: James A. Pearce (W)
 * Maryland's 3rd congressional district: James W. Williams (D)
 * Charles S. Sewall (D)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district: John P. Kennedy (W)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district: Alexander Randall (W)
 * Maryland's 5th congressional district: William Cost Johnson (W)
 * Maryland's 6th congressional district: John T. Mason (D)
 * Maryland's 7th congressional district: Augustus R. Sollers (W)
 * Massachusetts


 * Massachusetts's 1st congressional district: Robert C. Winthrop (W)
 * Nathan Appleton (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)
 * Charles Hudson (W)
 * Massachusetts's 6th congressional district: 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: Nathaniel B. Borden (W)
 * Massachusetts's 11th congressional district: Barker Burnell (W)
 * Massachusetts's 12th congressional district: John Quincy Adams (W)
 * Michigan
 * Michigan


 * Michigan's at-large congressional district: Jacob M. Howard (W)
 * Mississippi


 * Mississippi's at-large congressional district: William M. Gwin (D)
 * Mississippi's at-large congressional district: Jacob Thompson (D)
 * Missouri


 * Missouri's at-large congressional district: John C. Edwards (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: John R. Reding (D)
 * New Hampshire's at-large congressional district: Tristram Shaw (D)
 * New Jersey


 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: John B. Aycrigg (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: William Halstead (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: John P. B. Maxwell (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Joseph F. Randolph (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Charles C. Stratton (W)
 * New Jersey's at-large congressional district: Thomas Jones Yorke (W)
 * New York


 * New York's 1st congressional district: Charles A. Floyd (D)
 * New York's 2nd congressional district: Joseph Egbert (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: Charles G. Ferris (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: John McKeon (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: James I. Roosevelt (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district: Fernando Wood (D)
 * New York's 4th congressional district: Aaron Ward (D)
 * New York's 5th congressional district: Richard D. Davis (D)
 * New York's 6th congressional district: James G. Clinton (D)
 * New York's 7th congressional district: John Van Buren (D)
 * New York's 8th congressional district: Jacob Houck, Jr. (D)
 * New York's 8th congressional district: Robert McClellan (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: Archibald L. Linn (W)
 * New York's 12th congressional district: Bernard Blair (W)
 * New York's 13th congressional district: Thomas A. Tomlinson (W)
 * New York's 14th congressional district: Henry B. Van Rensselaer (W)
 * New York's 15th congressional district: John Sanford (D)
 * 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: Samuel S. Bowne (D)
 * New York's 20th congressional district: Samuel Gordon (D)
 * New York's 21st congressional district: John C. Clark (W)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district: Samuel Partridge (D)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district: Lewis Riggs (D)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district: Victory Birdseye (W)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district: A. Lawrence Foster (W)
 * New York's 24th congressional district: Christopher Morgan (W)
 * New York's 25th congressional district: John Maynard (W)
 * New York's 26th congressional district: Francis Granger (W)
 * John Greig (W)
 * New York's 27th congressional district: William M. Oliver (D)
 * New York's 28th congressional district: Timothy Childs (W)
 * New York's 29th congressional district: Seth M. Gates (W)
 * New York's 30th congressional district: John Young (W)
 * New York's 31st congressional district: Staley N. Clarke (W)
 * New York's 32nd congressional district: Millard Fillmore (W)
 * New York's 33rd congressional district: Alfred Babcock (W)
 * North Carolina


 * North Carolina's 1st congressional district: Kenneth Rayner (W)
 * North Carolina's 2nd congressional district: John R. J. Daniel (D)
 * North Carolina's 3rd congressional district: Edward Stanly (W)
 * North Carolina's 4th congressional district: William H. Washington (W)
 * North Carolina's 5th congressional district: James I. McKay (D)
 * North Carolina's 6th congressional district: Archibald H. Arrington (D)
 * North Carolina's 7th congressional district: Edmund Deberry (W)
 * North Carolina's 8th congressional district: Romulus M. Saunders (D)
 * North Carolina's 9th congressional district: Augustine H. Shepperd (W)
 * North Carolina's 10th congressional district: Abraham Rencher (W)
 * North Carolina's 11th congressional district: Greene W. Caldwell (D)
 * North Carolina's 12th congressional district: James Graham (W)
 * North Carolina's 13th congressional district: Lewis Williams (W)
 * Anderson Mitchell (W)
 * Ohio


 * Ohio's 1st congressional district: Nathanael G. Pendleton (W)
 * Ohio's 2nd congressional district: John B. Weller (D)
 * Ohio's 3rd congressional district: Patrick G. Goode (W)
 * Ohio's 4th congressional district: 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 Russell (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: Benjamin S. Cowen (W)
 * Ohio's 12th congressional district: Joshua Mathiot (W)
 * Ohio's 13th congressional district: James Mathews (D)
 * Ohio's 14th congressional district: George Sweeny (D)
 * Ohio's 15th congressional district: Sherlock J. Andrews (W)
 * Ohio's 16th congressional district: Joshua R. Giddings (W)
 * Ohio's 17th congressional district: John Hastings (D)
 * Ohio's 18th congressional district: Ezra Dean (D)
 * Ohio's 19th congressional district: Samuel Stokely (W)
 * Pennsylvania
 * Pennsylvania


 * Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district: Charles Brown (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district: George W. Toland (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district: John Sergeant (W)
 * Joseph R. Ingersoll (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district: Charles J. Ingersoll (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: Jeremiah Brown (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: John Edwards (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district: Francis James (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district: Joseph Fornance (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district: Robert Ramsey (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district: John Westbrook (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)
 * Amos Gustine (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district: James Irvin (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district: Benjamin A. Bidlack (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district: John Snyder (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district: Davis Dimock, Jr. (D)
 * Almon H. Read (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district: Charles Ogle (W)
 * Henry Black (W)
 * James M. Russell (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district: Albert G. Marchand (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district: Enos Hook (D)
 * Henry W. Beeson (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district: Joseph Lawrence (W)
 * Thomas M. T. McKennan (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district: William W. Irwin (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district: William Jack (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district: Thomas Henry (W)
 * Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district: Arnold Plumer (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)
 * Samuel W. Trotti (D)
 * South Carolina's 5th congressional district: Francis W. Pickens (D)
 * South Carolina's 6th congressional district: William Butler (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: Patrick C. Caldwell (D)
 * Tennessee


 * Tennessee's 1st congressional district: Thomas D. Arnold (W)
 * Tennessee's 2nd congressional district: Abraham McClellan (D)
 * Tennessee's 3rd congressional district: Joseph L. Williams (W)
 * Tennessee's 4th congressional district: Thomas J. Campbell (W)
 * Tennessee's 5th congressional district: Hopkins L. Turney (D)
 * Tennessee's 6th congressional district: William B. Campbell (W)
 * Tennessee's 7th congressional district: Robert L. Caruthers (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: Milton Brown (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: Augustus Young (W)
 * Vermont's 5th congressional district: John Mattocks (W)
 * Virginia


 * Virginia's 1st congressional district: Francis Mallory (W)
 * Virginia's 2nd congressional district: George B. Cary (D)
 * Virginia's 3rd congressional district: John W. Jones (D)
 * Virginia's 4th congressional district: William O. Goode (D)
 * Virginia's 5th congressional district: Edmund W. Hubard (D)
 * 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 (IW)
 * Virginia's 10th congressional district: John Taliaferro (W)
 * Virginia's 11th congressional district: John M. Botts (W)
 * Virginia's 12th congressional district: Thomas W. Gilmer (W)
 * Virginia's 13th congressional district: Linn Banks (D)
 * William Smith (D)
 * Virginia's 14th congressional district: Cuthbert Powell (W)
 * Virginia's 15th congressional district: Richard W. Barton (W)
 * Virginia's 16th congressional district: William A. Harris (D)
 * Virginia's 17th congressional district: Alexander H. H. Stuart (W)
 * Virginia's 18th congressional district: George W. Hopkins (D)
 * Virginia's 19th congressional district: George W. Summers (W)
 * Virginia's 20th congressional district: Samuel L. Hays (D)
 * Virginia's 21st congressional district: Lewis Steenrod (D)

Delegates

 * Florida Territory


 * Florida Territory's at-large congressional district: David Levy Yulee (D)
 * Iowa Territory


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


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