22nd United States Congress

Major events

• December 28, 1832: Vice President John C. Calhoun resigned. The first Vice President of the United States to do so.
• Nullification Crisis

  Major legislation

• July 14, 1832: Tariff of 1832, ch. 227,
• March 2, 1833: Tariff of 1833, ch. 55,
• March 2, 1833: Force Bill, ch. 57,

  Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: John C. Calhoun, resigned December 28, 1832; thereafter vacant.
• President pro tempore: Samuel Smith, first elected December 5, 1831
• * Littleton W. Tazewell, elected July 9, 1832
• * Hugh Lawson White, elected December 3, 1832

  House of Representatives

• Speaker: Andrew Stevenson

  Members

Senate

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

• 2. William R. D. King
• 3. Gabriel Moore

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

• 1. Samuel A. Foote
• 3. Gideon Tomlinson

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

• 1. Arnold Naudain
• 2. John M. Clayton

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

• 2. George M. Troup
• 3. John Forsyth

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

• 2. John M. Robinson
• 3. Elias K. Kane

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

• 1. Robert Hanna, from August 19, 1831 - January 3, 1832
• * John Tipton, from January 3, 1832
• 3. William Hendricks

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

• 2. George M. Bibb
• 3. Henry Clay, from November 10, 1831

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

• 2. Edward Livingston, until May 24, 1831
• * George A. Waggaman, from November 15, 1831
• 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, until July 16, 1832
• * John Black, from November 12, 1832
• 2. George Poindexter

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

• 1. Thomas H. Benton
• 3. Alexander Buckner

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

• 2. Samuel Bell
• 3. Isaac Hill

  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. William L. Marcy, until January 1, 1833
• * Silas Wright, Jr., from January 4, 1833

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

• 2. Bedford Brown
• 3. Willie P. Mangum

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

• 1. Benjamin Ruggles
• 3. Thomas Ewing

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

• 1. Isaac D. Barnard, until December 6, 1831
• * George M. Dallas, from December 13, 1831
• 3. William Wilkins

  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, until December 3, 1832
• * John C. Calhoun, from December 29, 1832
• 3. Stephen D. Miller, until March 2, 1833, vacant for remainder of term

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

• 1. Felix Grundy
• 2. Hugh Lawson White

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

• 1. Horatio Seymour
• 3. Samuel Prentiss

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

• 1. John Tyler
• 2. Littleton W. Tazewell, until July 16, 1832
• * William C. Rives, from December 10, 1832

House of Representatives

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

• . Clement C. Clay
• . Samuel W. Mardis
• . 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

• . John J. Milligan

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

• . Thomas F. Foster
• . Henry G. Lamar
• . Wilson Lumpkin, until ????, 1831
• * Augustin S. Clayton, from January 21, 1832
• . Daniel Newnan
• . 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
• . John Carr
• . Johnathan McCarty

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

• . Henry Daniel
• . Thomas A. Marshall
• . Chilton Allan
• . Robert P. Letcher
• . Richard M. Johnson
• . Joseph Lecompte
• . John Adair
• . Nathan Gaither
• . Charles A. Wickliffe
• . Christopher Tompkins
• . Albert G. Hawes
• . Chittenden Lyon

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

• . Edward D. White
• . Philemon Thomas
• . Henry A. Bullard

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

• . Rufus McIntire
• . John Anderson
• . Edward Kavanagh
• . George Evans
• . Cornelius Holland
• . Leonard Jarvis
• . James Bates

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

• . Daniel Jenifer
• . Benedict J. Semmes
• . George C. Washington
• . Francis Thomas
• . Benjamin C. Howard
• . John T. H. Worthington
• . George E. Mitchell, until June 28, 1832
• * Charles S. Sewall, from October 1, 1832
• . John L. Kerr
• . John S. Spence

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

• . Nathan Appleton
• . Rufus Choate
• . Jeremiah Nelson
• . Edward Everett
• . John Davis
• . Joseph G. Kendall
• . George J. Grennell, Jr.
• . Isaac C. Bates
• . George N. Briggs
• . Henry A. S. Dearborn
• . John Quincy Adams
• . James L. Hodges
• . John Reed, Jr.

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

• . Franklin E. Plummer

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

• . Spencer D. Pettis, until August 28, 1831
• * William H. Ashley, from October 31, 1831

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

• . John Brodhead
• . Thomas Chandler
• . Joseph Hammons
• . Joseph M. Harper
• . Henry Hubbard
• . John W. Weeks

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

• . Lewis Condict
• . Silas Condit
• . Richard M. Cooper
• . Thomas H. Hughes
• . James F. Randolph
• . Isaac Southard

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

• . James Lent, until February 22, 1833, vacant thereafter
• . John T. Bergen
• . Churchill C. Cambreleng
• . Gulian C. Verplanck
• . Campbell P. White
• . Aaron Ward
• . Edmund H. Pendleton
• . Samuel J. Wilkin
• . John C. Brodhead
• . John King
• . Job Pierson
• . Gerrit Y. Lansing
• . Erastus Root
• . Joseph Bouck
• . William G. Angel
• . Samuel Beardsley
• . Michael Hoffman
• . Nathan Soule
• . John W. Taylor
• . Nathaniel Pitcher
• . William Hogan
• . Charles Dayan
• . Daniel Wardwell
• . John A. Collier
• . Edward C. Reed
• . Freeborn G. Jewett
• . Ulysses F. Doubleday
• . Gamaliel H. Barstow
• . William Babcock
• . John Dickson
• . Frederick Whittlesey
• . Grattan H. Wheeler
• . Phineas L. Tracy
• . Bates Cooke

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

• . William B. Shepard
• . John Branch, from May 12, 1831
• . Thomas H. Hall
• . Jesse Speight
• . James I. McKay
• . Robert Potter, until November ????, 1831
• * Micajah T. Hawkins, from December 15, 1831
• . Lauchlin Bethune
• . 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
• . Thomas Corwin
• . Joseph H. Crane
• . Joseph Vance
• . William Russell
• . William Creighton, Jr.
• . Samuel F. Vinton
• . William Stanbery
• . William W. Irvin
• . William S. Kennon, Sr.
• . Humphrey H. Leavitt
• . John Thomson
• . Elisha Whittlesey
• . Eleutheros Cooke

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

• . Joel B. Sutherland
• . Henry Horn
• . John G. Watmough
• . Joshua Evans, Jr.
• . William Hiester
• . David Potts, Jr.
• . Joel K. Mann
• . John C. Bucher
• . Henry King
• . Henry A. P. Muhlenberg
• . Peter Ihrie, Jr.
• . Samuel A. Smith
• . Lewis Dewart
• . James Ford
• . Philander Stephens
• . Adam King
• . Thomas H. Crawford
• . William Ramsey, until September 29, 1831
• * Robert McCoy, from November 22, 1831
• . Robert Allison
• . George Burd
• . Andrew Stewart
• . Thomas M.T. McKennan
• . Harmar Denny
• . John Gilmore
• . Richard Coulter
• . John Banks

  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
• . Thomas R. Mitchell
• . John M. Felder
• . George McDuffie
• . Warren R. Davis
• . William T. Nuckolls
• . James Blair
• . John K. Griffin

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

• . John Blair
• . Thomas D. Arnold
• . James I. Standifer
• . Jacob C. Isacks
• . William Hall
• . James K. Polk
• . John Bell
• . Cave Johnson
• . William Fitzgerald

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

• . Jonathan Hunt, until May 15, 1832
• * Hiland Hall, from January 1, 1833
• . Rollin C. Mallary, until April 15, 1831
• * William Slade, from November 1, 1831
• . Horace Everett
• . Heman Allen
• . William Cahoon

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

• . Thomas Newton, Jr.
• . John Y. Mason
• . William S. Archer
• . Mark Alexander
• . Thomas T. Bouldin
• . Thomas Davenport
• . Nathaniel H. Claiborne
• . Richard Coke, Jr.
• . Andrew Stevenson
• . William F. Gordon
• . John M. Patton
• . John J. Roane
• . Joseph W. Chinn
• . Charles F. Mercer
• . John S. Barbour
• . William Armstrong
• . Robert Allen
• . Philip Doddridge, until November 19, 1832
• * Joseph Johnson, from January 21, 1833
• . William McCoy
• . Robert Craig
• . Lewis Maxwell
• . Charles C. Johnston, until June 17, 1832
• * Joseph Draper, from December 6, 1832

  Non-voting members

• . Ambrose H. Sevier
• . Joseph M. White
• . Austin E. Wing

Changes in membership

Senate

• Replacements: 7
• * Jacksonians: no net change
• * Anti-Jacksonians: no net change
• * Nullifiers: no net change
• Deaths: 0
• Resignations: 7
• Interim appointments: 1
• Total seats with changes: 9

  House of Representatives

• replacements: 9
• * Jacksonians: 1-seat net gain
• * Anti-Jacksonians: 2-seat net loss
• * Anti-Masonics: 1-seat net gain
• deaths: 8
• resignations: 2
• contested election: 0
• Total seats with changes: 11

  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
• Naval Affairs
• Post Office and Post Roads
• 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

• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

  Senate

• Chaplain: Henry V. Johns, until December 19, 1831
• * John P. Durbin, elected December 19, 1831
• * Charles C. Pise, elected December 11, 1832
• Secretary: Walter Lowrie
• Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly

  House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Ralph R. Gurley, until December 13, 1831
• * Reuben Post elected December 13, 1831
• * William Hammett, elected December 12, 1832
• Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
• Doorkeeper: Overton Carr, elected December 5, 1831
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn