21st United States Congress

Major events

• March 4, 1829: Andrew Jackson became President of the United States

  Major legislation

• May 28, 1830: Indian Removal Act, ch. 148,

  Not enacted

• May 27, 1830: Maysville Road Bill vetoed

  Treaties

• September 27, 1830: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty after the passage of the Indian Removal Act, is signed with the Choctaw.
• February 24, 1831: Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek proclaimed.

  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, until April 16, 1829
• * Arnold Naudain, from January 7, 1830
• 2. John M. Clayton

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

• 2. George Troup
• 3. John M. Berrien, until March 9, 1829
• * John Forsyth, from November 9, 1829

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

• 2. John McLean, until October 14, 1830
• * David J. Baker, November 12, 1830 – December 11, 1830
• * John M. Robinson, from December 11, 1830
• 3. Elias Kane

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

• 1. James Noble, until February 26, 1831, vacant for remainder of term
• 3. William Hendricks

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

• 2. George M. Bibb
• 3. John Rowan

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

• 2. Edward Livingston
• 3. Josiah S. Johnston

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

• 1. John Holmes
• 2. Peleg Sprague

  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
• 2. Nathaniel Silsbee

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

• 1. Powhatan Ellis
• 2. Thomas B. Reed, until November 26, 1829
• * Robert H. Adams, January 6, 1830 – July 2, 1830
• * George Poindexter, from October 15, 1830

  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. Mahlon Dickerson
• 2. Theodore Frelinghuysen

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

• 1. Charles E. Dudley
• 3. Nathan Sanford

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

• 2. John Branch, until March 9, 1829
• * Bedford Brown, from December 9, 1829
• 3. James Iredell, Jr.

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

• 1. Benjamin Ruggles
• 3. Jacob Burnet

  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 Eaton, until March 9, 1829
• * Felix Grundy, from October 19, 1829
• 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]]

• . Clement C. Clay
• . Robert E. B. Baylor
• . Dixon H. Lewis

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

• . Noyes Barber
• . William W. Ellsworth
• . Jabez W. Huntington
• . Ralph I. Ingersoll
• . William L. Storrs
• . Ebenezer Young

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

• . Kensey Johns, Jr.

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

• . Thomas F. Foster
• . Charles E. Haynes
• . Henry G. Lamar, from December 7, 1829
• . Wilson Lumpkin
• . Wiley Thompson
• . James M. Wayne
• . Richard Henry Wilde

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

• . Joseph Duncan

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

• . Ratliff Boon
• . Jonathan Jennings
• . John Test

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

• . Henry Daniel
• . Nicholas D. Coleman
• . James Clark
• . Robert P. Letcher
• . Richard M. Johnson
• . Joseph Lecompte
• . John Kincaid
• . Nathan Gaither
• . Charles A. Wickliffe
• . Joel Yancey
• . Thomas Chilton
• . Chittenden Lyon

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

• . Edward D. White
• . Henry H. Gurley
• . Walter H. Overton

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

• . Rufus McIntire
• . John Anderson
• . Joseph F. Wingate
• . George Evans, from July 20, 1829
• . James W. Ripley, until March 12, 1830
• * Cornelius Holland, from December 6, 1830
• . Leonard Jarvis
• . Samuel Butman

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

• . Clement Dorsey
• . Benedict J. Semmes
• . George C. Washington
• . Michael C. Sprigg
• . Elias Brown
• . Benjamin C. Howard
• . George E. Mitchell, from December 7, 1829
• . Richard Spencer
• . Ephraim K. Wilson

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

• . Benjamin Gorham
• . Benjamin W. Crowninshield
• . John Varnum
• . Edward Everett
• . John Davis
• . Joseph G. Kendall
• . George J. Grennell, Jr.
• . 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

• . Thomas Hinds

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

• . Spencer D. Pettis

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

• . John Brodhead
• . Thomas Chandler
• . Joseph Hammons
• . Jonathan Harvey
• . Henry Hubbard
• . John W. Weeks

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

• . Lewis Condict
• . Richard M. Cooper
• . Thomas H. Hughes
• . Isaac Pierson
• . James F. Randolph
• . Samuel Swan

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

• . James Lent
• . Jacob Crocheron
• . Churchill C. Cambreleng
• . Gulian C. Verplanck
• . Campbell P. White
• . Henry B. Cowles
• . Abraham Bockee
• . Hector Craig, until July 12, 1830
• * Samuel W. Eager, from November 2, 1830
• . Charles G. DeWitt
• . James Strong
• . John D. Dickinson
• . Ambrose Spencer
• . Perkins King
• . Peter I. Borst
• . William G. Angel
• . Henry R. Storrs
• . Michael Hoffman
• . Benedict Arnold
• . John W. Taylor
• . Henry C. Martindale
• . Isaac Finch
• . Joseph Hawkins
• . George Fisher, until February 5, 1830
• * Jonah Sanford, from November 3, 1830
• . Robert Monell, until February 21, 1831, vacant thereafter
• . Thomas Beekman
• . Jonas Earll, Jr.
• . Gershom Powers
• . Thomas Maxwell
• . Jehiel H. Halsey
• . Robert S. Rose
• . Timothy Childs
• . John Magee
• . Phineas L. Tracy
• . Ebenezer F. Norton

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

• . William B. Shepard
• . Willis Alston
• . Thomas H. Hall
• . Jesse Speight
• . Gabriel Holmes, until September 26, 1829
• * Edward B. Dudley, from November 10, 1829
• . Robert Potter
• . Edmund Deberry
• . Daniel L. Barringer
• . Augustine H. Shepperd
• . Abraham Rencher
• . Henry W. Connor
• . Samuel P. Carson
• . Lewis Williams

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

• . James Findlay
• . James Shields
• . Joseph H. Crane
• . Joseph Vance
• . William Russell
• . William Creighton, Jr.
• . Samuel F. Vinton
• . William Stanbery
• . William W. Irvin
• . William Kennon, Sr.
• . John M. Goodenow, until April 9, 1830
• * Humphrey H. Leavitt, from December 6, 1830
• . John Thomson
• . Elisha Whittlesey
• . Mordecai Bartley

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

• . Joel B. Sutherland
• . Joseph Hemphill
• . Daniel H. Miller
• . James Buchanan
• . Joshua Evans, Jr.
• . George G. Leiper
• . John B. Sterigere
• . Innis Green
• . Joseph Fry, Jr.
• . Henry A. P. Muhlenberg
• . Samuel D. Ingham, until March 1829
• * Peter Ihrie, Jr., from October 13, 1829
• . George Wolf, until March 1829
• * Samuel A. Smith, from October 13, 1829
• . James Ford
• . Alem Marr
• . Philander Stephens
• . Adam King
• . Thomas H. Crawford
• . William Ramsey
• . John Scott
• . Chauncey Forward
• . Thomas Irwin
• . William McCreery
• . Harmar Denny, from December 15, 1829, after William Wilkins resigned before qualifying
• . John Gilmore
• . Richard Coulter
• . Thomas H. Sill

  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
• . Robert W. Barnwell
• . John Campbell
• . William D. Martin
• . George McDuffie
• . Warren R. Davis
• . William T. Nuckolls
• . James Blair
• . Starling Tucker

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

• . John Blair
• . Pryor Lea
• . James I. Standifer
• . Jacob C. Isacks
• . Robert Desha
• . James K. Polk
• . John Bell
• . Cave Johnson
• . David Crockett

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

• . Jonathan Hunt
• . Rollin C. Mallary
• . Horace Everett
• . Benjamin Swift
• . William Cahoon

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

• . Thomas Newton, Jr., until March 9, 1830
• * George Loyall, from March 9, 1830
• . James Trezvant
• . William S. Archer
• . Mark Alexander
• . Thomas T. Bouldin
• . Thomas Davenport
• . Nathaniel H. Claiborne
• . Richard Coke, Jr.
• . Andrew Stevenson
• . William C. Rives, until April 17, 1829
• * William F. Gordon, from January 25, 1830
• . Philip P. Barbour, until October 15, 1830
• * John M. Patton, from November 25, 1830
• . John Roane
• . John Taliaferro
• . Charles F. Mercer
• . John S. Barbour
• . William Armstrong
• . Robert Allen
• . Philip Doddridge
• . William McCoy
• . Robert Craig
• . Lewis Maxwell
• . Alexander Smyth, until April 17, 1830
• * Joseph Draper, from December 6, 1830

  Non-voting members

• . Ambrose H. Sevier
• . Joseph M. White
• . John Biddle, until February 21, 1831, vacant thereafter

Changes in membership

Senate

• Replacements: 4
• * Jacksonians : no net change
• * Anti-Jacksonians : no net change
• Deaths: 4
• Resignations: 4
• Interim appointments: 1
• Total seats with changes: 7

  House of Representatives

• Replacements: 5
• * Jacksonians : 1 seat net loss
• * Anti-Jacksonian : 1 seat net gain
• Deaths: 2
• Resignations: 10
• Contested election: 2

Committees

Senate

• Accounts of James Monroe
• Agriculture
• Amending the Constitution on the Election of the President and Vice President
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Claims
• Commerce
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States
• District of Columbia
• Dueling
• Engrossed Bills
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• French Spoilations
• Impeachment of James H. Peck
• Indian Affairs
• Judiciary
• Manufactures
• Memorial of the Manufacturers Iron
• Mileage of Members of Congress
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Naval Affairs
• Nomination of Amos Kendall
• Pensions
• Post Office Department
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Private Land Claims
• Public Lands
• Roads and Canals
• Tariff Regulation
• Whole

  House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• American Colonization Society
• Claims
• Commerce
• District of Columbia
• Elections
• Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region
• 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
• Revolutionary Pensions
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• Ways and Means
• Whole

  Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills
• The Library

  Employees

[List of [federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch|Legislative branch agency]] directors

• Architect of the Capitol: Charles Bulfinch, until June 25, 1829
• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

  Senate

• Chaplain: William Ryland, until December 14, 1829
• * Henry V. Johns, elected December 14, 1829
• Secretary: Walter Lowrie
• Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly

  House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Reuben Post, until December 13, 1830
• * Ralph R. Gurley, elected December 13, 1830
• Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
• Doorkeeper: Benjamin Birch
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn