30th United States Congress

Major events

Main article: 1847 in the United States, 1848 in the United States, 1849 in the United States

• July 1, 1847: United States issued its first postage stamps
• January 24, 1848: Gold found at Sutter's Mill, beginning the California Gold Rush
• January 31, 1848: Washington Monument established
• May 29, 1848: Wisconsin is granted statehood, becoming the 30th state
• February 23, 1848: Former President John Quincy Adams, now a Congressman representing Massachusetts, dies in the Speaker's office after suffering a stroke in the House Chambers.
• July 19, 1848: Seneca Falls Convention
• November 7, 1848: U.S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor defeated Lewis Cass in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
• 1846–1848: Mexican–American War

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation, 1789–1901#1821 to 1831

• March 3, 1849: United States Department of the Interior established, sess. 2, ch. 108,
• March 3, 1849: Gold Coinage Act, sess. 2, ch. 109,

Treaty

• February 2, 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed, ending the Mexican–American War and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest United States.

States admitted and territories established

• May 29, 1848: Wisconsin admitted as the 30th U.S. state, sess. 1, ch. 50,
• August 14, 1848: Oregon Territory was formed from territory ceded by Great Britain, sess. 1, ch. 177,
• March 3, 1849: Minnesota Territory formed from the Wisconsin Territory, sess. 2, ch. 121,

Party summary

Senate

During this congress, two Senate seats were added for the new state of Wisconsin.

House of Representatives

During this congress, two House seats were added for the new state of Wisconsin.

Leadership

Senate

• President: George M. Dallas (D)
• President pro tempore: David R. Atchison (D)

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Robert C. Winthrop (W)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class and representatives are listed by district. :Skip to House of Representatives, below

Senate

Main article: List of United States senators in the 30th Congress

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

: 2. Dixon H. Lewis (D), until October 25, 1848 :: Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D), from November 25, 1848 : 3. Arthur P. Bagby (D), until June 16, 1848 :: William R. King (D), from July 1, 1848

[[List of United States senators from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: 2. Chester Ashley (D), until April 29, 1848 :: William K. Sebastian (D), from May 12, 1848 : 3. Ambrose H. Sevier (D), until March 15, 1848 :: Solon Borland (D), from March 30, 1848

[[List of United States senators from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: 1. Jabez W. Huntington (W), until November 1, 1847 :: Roger S. Baldwin (W), from November 11, 1847 : 3. John M. Niles (D)

[[List of United States senators from Delaware|Delaware]]

: 1. John M. Clayton (W), until February 23, 1849 :: John Wales (W), from February 23, 1849 : 2. Presley Spruance (W)

[[List of United States senators from Florida|Florida]]

: 1. David Levy Yulee (D) : 3. James Westcott (D)

[[List of United States senators from Georgia|Georgia]]

: 2. John Macpherson Berrien (W) : 3. Walter T. Colquitt (D), until February 4, 1848 :: Herschel V. Johnson (D), from February 4, 1848

[[List of United States senators from Illinois|Illinois]]

: 2. Stephen A. Douglas (D) : 3. Sidney Breese (D)

[[List of United States senators from Indiana|Indiana]]

: 1. Jesse D. Bright (D) : 3. Edward A. Hannegan (D)

[[List of United States senators from Iowa|Iowa]]

: 2. George Wallace Jones (D), from December 7, 1848 : 3. Augustus C. Dodge (D), from December 7, 1848

[[List of United States senators from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: 2. Joseph R. Underwood (W) : 3. John J. Crittenden (W), until June 12, 1848 :: Thomas Metcalfe (W), from June 23, 1848

[[List of United States senators from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: 2. Solomon W. Downs (D) : 3. Henry Johnson (W)

[[List of United States senators from Maine|Maine]]

: 1. John Fairfield (D), until December 24, 1847 :: Wyman B. S. Moor (D), January 5, 1848 – June 7, 1848 :: Hannibal Hamlin (D), from June 7, 1848 : 2. James W. Bradbury (D)

[[List of United States senators from Maryland|Maryland]]

: 1. Reverdy Johnson (W) : 3. James Pearce (W)

[[List of United States senators from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: 1. Daniel Webster (W) : 2. John Davis (W)

[[List of United States senators from Michigan|Michigan]]

: 1. Lewis Cass (D), until May 29, 1848 :: Thomas Fitzgerald (D), from June 8, 1848 : 2. Alpheus Felch (D)

[[List of United States senators from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: 1. Jesse Speight (D), until May 1, 1847 :: Jefferson Davis (D), from August 10, 1847 : 2. Henry S. Foote (D)

[[List of United States senators from Missouri|Missouri]]

: 1. Thomas H. Benton (D) : 3. David R. Atchison (D)

[[List of United States senators from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: 2. John P. Hale (ID) : 3. Charles G. Atherton (D)

[[List of United States senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: 1. William L. Dayton (W) : 2. Jacob W. Miller (W)

[[List of United States senators from New York|New York]]

: 1. Daniel S. Dickinson (D) : 3. John A. Dix (D)

[[List of United States senators from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: 2. Willie P. Mangum (W) : 3. George E. Badger (W)

[[List of United States senators from Ohio|Ohio]]

: 1. Thomas Corwin (W) : 3. William Allen (D)

[[List of United States senators from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: 1. Daniel Sturgeon (D) : 3. Simon Cameron (D)

[[List of United States senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: 1. Albert C. Greene (W) : 2. John H. Clarke (W)

[[List of United States senators from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: 2. John C. Calhoun (D) : 3. Andrew Butler (D)

[[List of United States senators from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: 1. Hopkins L. Turney (D) : 2. John Bell (W), from November 22, 1847

[[List of United States senators from Texas|Texas]]

: 1. Thomas J. Rusk (D) : 2. Samuel Houston (D)

[[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]]

: 1. Samuel S. Phelps (W) : 3. William Upham (W)

[[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]]

: 1. James M. Mason (D) : 2. Robert M. T. Hunter (D)

[[List of United States senators from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: 1. Henry Dodge (D), from June 8, 1848 (newly admitted state) : 3. Isaac P. Walker (D), from June 8, 1848 (newly admitted state)

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House of Representatives

Main article: List of United States representatives in the 30th Congress

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

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

: . John Gayle (W) : . Henry W. Hilliard (W) : . Sampson W. Harris (D) : . Samuel W. Inge (D) : . George S. Houston (D) : . Williamson R. W. Cobb (D) : . Franklin W. Bowdon (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: . Robert W. Johnson (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: . James Dixon (W) : . Samuel D. Hubbard (W) : . John A. Rockwell (W) : . Truman Smith (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Delaware|Delaware]]

: . John W. Houston (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Florida|Florida]]

: . Edward C. Cabell (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Georgia|Georgia]]

: . Thomas Butler King (W) : . Alfred Iverson Sr. (D) : . John W. Jones (W) : . Hugh A. Haralson (D) : . John H. Lumpkin (D) : . Howell Cobb (D) : . Alexander H. Stephens (W) : . Robert A. Toombs (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Illinois|Illinois]]

: . Robert Smith (ID) : . John A. McClernand (D) : . Orlando B. Ficklin (D) : . John Wentworth (D) : . William A. Richardson (D), from December 6, 1847 : . Thomas J. Turner (D) : . Abraham Lincoln (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Indiana|Indiana]]

: . Elisha Embree (W) : . Thomas J. Henley (D) : . John L. Robinson (D) : . Caleb B. Smith (W) : . William W. Wick (D) : . George G. Dunn (W) : . Richard W. Thompson (W) : . John Pettit (D) : . Charles W. Cathcart (D) : . William R. Rockhill (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Iowa|Iowa]]

: . William Thompson (D) : . Shepherd Leffler (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: . Linn Boyd (D) : . Beverly L. Clarke (D) : . Samuel O. Peyton (D) : . Aylette Buckner (W) : . John B. Thompson (W) : . Green Adams (W) : . W. Garnett Duncan (W) : . Charles S. Morehead (W) : . Richard French (D) : . John P. Gaines (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: . Emile La Sére (D) : . Bannon G. Thibodeaux (W) : . John H. Harmanson (D) : . Isaac E. Morse (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Maine|Maine]]

: . David Hammons (D) : . Asa W. H. Clapp (D) : . Hiram Belcher (W) : . Franklin Clark (D) : . Ephraim K. Smart (D) : . James S. Wiley (D) : . Hezekiah Williams (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Maryland|Maryland]]

: . John G. Chapman (W) : . J. Dixon Roman (W) : . Thomas W. Ligon (D) : . Robert M. McLane (D) : . Alexander Evans (W) : . John W. Crisfield (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: . Robert C. Winthrop (W) : . Daniel P. King (W) : . Amos Abbott (W) : . John G. Palfrey (W) : . Charles Hudson (W) : . George Ashmun (W) : . Julius Rockwell (W) : . John Quincy Adams (W), until February 23, 1848 :: Horace Mann (W), from April 3, 1848 : . Artemas Hale (W) : . Joseph Grinnell (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Michigan|Michigan]]

: . Robert McClelland (D) : . Edward Bradley (D), until August 5, 1847 :: Charles E. Stuart (D), from December 6, 1847 : . Kinsley S. Bingham (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: . Jacob Thompson (D) : . Winfield S. Featherston (D) : . Patrick W. Tompkins (W) : . Albert G. Brown (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Missouri|Missouri]]

: . James B. Bowlin (D) : . John Jameson (D) : . James S. Green (D) : . Willard P. Hall (D) : . John S. Phelps (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: . Amos Tuck (I) : . Charles H. Peaslee (D) : . James Wilson (W) : . James H. Johnson (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: . James G. Hampton (W) : . William A. Newell (W) : . Joseph E. Edsall (D) : . John Van Dyke (W) : . Dudley S. Gregory (W)

[[List of United States representatives from New York|New York]]

: . Frederick W. Lord (D) : . Henry C. Murphy (D) : . Henry Nicoll (D) : . William B. Maclay (D) : . Frederick A. Tallmadge (W) : . David S. Jackson (D), until April 19, 1848 :: Horace Greeley (W), from December 4, 1848 : . William Nelson (W) : . Cornelius Warren (W) : . Daniel B. St. John (W) : . Eliakim Sherrill (W) : . Peter H. Silvester (W) : . Gideon Reynolds (W) : . John I. Slingerland (W) : . Orlando Kellogg (W) : . Sidney Lawrence (D) : . Hugh White (W) : . George Petrie (ID) : . William Collins (D) : . Joseph Mullin (W) : . Timothy Jenkins (D) : . George A. Starkweather (D) : . Ausburn Birdsall (D) : . William Duer (W) : . Daniel Gott (W) : . Harmon S. Conger (W) : . William T. Lawrence (W) : . John M. Holley (W), until March 8, 1848 :: Esbon Blackmar (W), from December 4, 1848 : . Elias B. Holmes (W) : . Robert L. Rose (W) : . David Rumsey Jr. (W) : . Dudley Marvin (W) : . Nathan K. Hall (W) : . Harvey Putnam (W) : . Washington Hunt (W)

[[List of United States representatives from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: . Thomas L. Clingman (W) : . Nathaniel Boyden (W) : . Daniel M. Barringer (W) : . Augustine H. Shepperd (W) : . Abraham W. Venable (D) : . John R. J. Daniel (D) : . James I. McKay (D) : . Richard S. Donnell (W) : . David Outlaw (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Ohio|Ohio]]

: . James J. Faran (D) : . David Fisher (W) : . Robert C. Schenck (W) : . Richard S. Canby (W) : . William Sawyer (D) : . Rodolphus Dickinson (D) : . Jonathan D. Morris (D) : . John L. Taylor (W) : . Thomas O. Edwards (W) : . Daniel Duncan (W) : . John K. Miller (D) : . Samuel F. Vinton (W) : . Thomas Ritchey (D) : . Nathan Evans (W) : . William Kennon Jr. (D) : . John D. Cummins (D) : . George Fries (D) : . Samuel Lahm (D) : . John Crowell (W) : . Joshua R. Giddings (W) : . Joseph M. Root (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: . Lewis C. Levin (A) : . Joseph R. Ingersoll (W) : . Charles Brown (D) : . Charles J. Ingersoll (D) : . John Freedley (W) : . John W. Hornbeck (W), until January 16, 1848 :: Samuel A. Bridges (D), from March 6, 1848 : . Abraham R. McIlvaine (W) : . John Strohm (W) : . William Strong (D) : . Richard Brodhead (D) : . Chester P. Butler (W) : . David Wilmot (D) : . James Pollock (W) : . George N. Eckert (W) : . Henry Nes (W) : . Jasper E. Brady (W) : . John Blanchard (W) : . Andrew Stewart (W) : . Job Mann (D) : . John Dickey (W) : . Moses Hampton (W) : . John W. Farrelly (W) : . James Thompson (D) : . Alexander Irvin (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: . Robert B. Cranston (W) : . Benjamin B. Thurston (D)

[[List of United States representatives from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: . James A. Black (D), until April 3, 1848 :: Daniel Wallace (D), from June 12, 1848 : . Richard F. Simpson (D) : . Joseph A. Woodward (D) : . Alexander D. Sims (D), until November 22, 1848 :: John McQueen (D), from February 12, 1849 : . Armistead Burt (D) : . Isaac E. Holmes (D) : . Robert Rhett (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: . Andrew Johnson (D) : . William M. Cocke (W) : . John H. Crozier (W) : . Hugh L. W. Hill (D) : . George W. Jones (D) : . James H. Thomas (D) : . Meredith P. Gentry (W) : . Washington Barrow (W) : . Lucien B. Chase (D) : . Frederick P. Stanton (D) : . William T. Haskell (W)

[[List of United States representatives from Texas|Texas]]

: . David S. Kaufman (D) : . Timothy Pilsbury (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Vermont|Vermont]]

: . William Henry (W) : . Jacob Collamer (W) : . George P. Marsh (W) : . Lucius B. Peck (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Virginia|Virginia]]

: . Archibald Atkinson (D) : . George Dromgoole (D), until April 27, 1847 :: Richard K. Meade (D), from August 5, 1847 : . Thomas S. Flournoy (W) : . Thomas S. Bocock (D) : . William L. Goggin (W) : . John M. Botts (W) : . Thomas H. Bayly (D) : . Richard L. T. Beale (D) : . John S. Pendleton (W) : . Henry Bedinger (D) : . James McDowell (D) : . William B. Preston (W) : . Andrew S. Fulton (W) : . Robert A. Thompson (D) : . William G. Brown Sr. (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: . William P. Lynde (D), from June 8, 1848 (newly admitted state) : . Mason C. Darling (D), from June 8, 1848 (newly admitted state)

Non-voting members

: . John H. Tweedy (W), until May 29, 1848 :: Henry H. Sibley, from October 30, 1848

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Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

• Replacements: 11
  • Democrats (D): 4 seat net gain
  • Whigs (W): no net change
• Deaths: 5
• Resignations: 6
• Interim appointments: 7
• Seats of newly admitted states: 4 Sorted Chronologically by date of vacancy --

|- | Tennessee (2) | Vacant | Failure to elect. Successor elected November 22, 1847. | | John Bell (W) | Elected November 22, 1847.

|- | Iowa (2) | Vacant | Iowa had been admitted to the Union December 28, 1846, but the legislature failed to elect due to a three-way split that prevented any candidate from earning the required number of 30 legislators' votes. First Senator elected December 7, 1848. | | George Wallace Jones (D) | Elected December 7, 1848.

|- | Iowa (3) | Vacant | Iowa had been admitted to the Union December 28, 1846, but the legislature failed to elect due to a three-way split that prevented any candidate from earning the required number of 30 legislators' votes. First Senator elected December 7, 1848. | | Augustus C. Dodge (D) | Elected December 7, 1848.

|- | Mississippi (1) | | Jesse Speight (D) | Incumbent died May 1, 1847. Successor appointed August 10, 1847, and then elected January 1848. | | Jefferson Davis (D) | Appointed December 5, 1847.

|- | Connecticut (1) | | Jabez W. Huntington (W) | Incumbent died November 1, 1847. Successor appointed November 11, 1847, and then elected May 1848. | | Roger S. Baldwin (W) | Appointed December 5, 1847.

|- | Maine (1) | | John Fairfield (D) | Incumbent died December 24, 1847. Successor appointed January 5, 1848. | | Wyman B. S. Moor (D) | Appointed January 5, 1848.

|- | Georgia (3) | | Walter T. Colquitt (D) | Incumbent resigned February 4, 1848. Successor appointed February 4, 1848, to finish the term. | | Herschel V. Johnson (D) | Appointed February 4, 1848.

|- | Arkansas (3) | | Ambrose H. Sevier (D) | Incumbent resigned March 15, 1848. Successor appointed March 30, 1848, to finish the term. | | Solon Borland (D) | Appointed March 30, 1848.

|- | Arkansas (2) | | Chester Ashley (D) | Incumbent died April 29, 1848. Successor appointed May 12, 1848, and elected sometime thereafter. | | William K. Sebastian (D) | Elected May 12, 1848.

|- | Wisconsin (1) First Senator elected June 8, 1848. | | Henry Dodge (D) | Elected June 8, 1848.

|- | Wisconsin (3) First Senator elected June 8, 1848. | | Isaac P. Walker (D) | Elected June 8, 1848.

|- | Michigan (1) | | Lewis Cass (D) | Incumbent resigned May 29, 1848, to run for U.S. President. Successor appointed June 8, 1848. | | Thomas Fitzgerald (D) | Elected June 8, 1848.

|- | Maine (1) | | Wyman B. S. Moor (D) | Interim appointee retired when successor elected June 7, 1848. | | Hannibal Hamlin (D) | Elected June 7, 1848.

|- | Kentucky (3) | | John J. Crittenden (W) | Incumbent resigned June 12, 1848, to run for Governor of Kentucky. Successor appointed June 23, 1848, and elected sometime thereafter. | | Thomas Metcalfe (W) | Elected June 23, 1848.

|- | Alabama (3) | | Arthur P. Bagby (D) | Incumbent resigned June 16, 1848, to become U.S. Minister to Russia. Successor elected July 1, 1848. | | William R. King (D) | Elected July 1, 1848.

|- | Alabama (2) | | Dixon H. Lewis (D) | Incumbent died October 25, 1848. Successor elected November 25, 1848. | | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | Elected November 25, 1848.

|- | Delaware (1) | | John M. Clayton (W) | Incumbent resigned February 23, 1849, to become U.S. Secretary of State. Successor elected February 23, 1849. | | John Wales (W) | Elected February 23, 1849. |}

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 10
  • Democrats (D): no net change
  • Whigs (W): no net change
• Deaths: 7
• Resignations: 0
• Contested election: 1
• Seats of newly admitted states: 2
• Total seats with changes: 12 Sorted Chronologically by date of vacancy -- Main article: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

|- | | Vacant | Representative Stephen A. Douglas resigned at end of previous congress. | | William A. Richardson (D) | Seated December 6, 1847

|- | | | George Dromgoole (D) | Incumbent died April 27, 1847. | | Richard K. Meade (D) | Seated August 5, 1847

|- | | | Edward Bradley (D) | Incumbent died August 5, 1847. | | Charles E. Stuart (D) | Seated December 6, 1847

|- | | | John W. Hornbeck (W) | Incumbent died January 16, 1848. | | Samuel A. Bridges (D) | Seated March 6, 1848

|- | | | John Quincy Adams (W) | Incumbent died February 23, 1848. | | Horace Mann (W) | Seated April 3, 1848

|- | | | John M. Holley (W) | Incumbent died March 8, 1848. | | Esbon Blackmar (W) | Seated December 4, 1848

|- | | | James A. Black (D) | Incumbent died April 3, 1848. | | Daniel Wallace (D) | Seated June 12, 1848

|- | | | David S. Jackson (D) | James Monroe contested seat after which the House declared the seat vacant April 19, 1848. | | Horace Greeley (W) | Seated December 4, 1848

|- | | | William P. Lynde (D) | Seated June 8, 1848

|- | | | Mason C. Darling (D) | Seated June 8, 1848

|- | | | John H. Tweedy (W) | Incumbent was disqualified May 29, 1848, after the portion of territory he resided in achieved statehood. | Henry H. Sibley | Seated October 30, 1848

|- | | | Alexander D. Sims (D) | Incumbent died November 22, 1848. | | John McQueen (D) | Seated February 12, 1849

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Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Agriculture (Chairman: Daniel Sturgeon)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Alpheus Felch then Isaac P. Walker)
• Claims (Chairman: Moses Norris Jr.)
• Commerce (Chairman: John Adams Dix)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Herschel V. Johnson)
• Expedition of John C. Fremont (Select)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Thomas J. Rusk)
• Finance (Chairman: Charles G. Atherton)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Ambrose H. Sevier then Edward A. Hannegan then Thomas Hart Benton)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: David R. Atchison)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Andrew P. Butler)
• Library (Chairman: James A. Pearce)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Daniel S. Dickinson)
• Memorial of Certain Cherokee Claimants (Select)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Lewis Cass then Thomas Hart Benton)
• Militia (Chairman: Thomas J. Rusk)
• Monuments to Deceased Senators (Select)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: David Levy Yulee)
• Oregon Railroad (Select)
• Ordnance and War Ships (Select)
• Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: James D. Westcott)
• Pensions (Chairman: Henry Johnson)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John M. Niles)
• Printing (Chairman: Simon Cameron)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Solomon W. Downs)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Robert M.T. Hunter)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Sidney Breese then Alpheus Felch)
• Retired List for the Army and the Navy (Select)
• Retrenchment (Chairman: Hopkins L. Turney)
• Seventh Census (Select)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Jesse D. Bright)
• Rivers and Harbors Convention in Chicago (Select)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: Edward A. Hannegan)
• Tariff Bill of 1828 (Special)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Stephen A. Douglas)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Daniel P. King)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Hugh White)
• Claims (Chairman: Joseph R. Ingersoll)
• Commerce (Chairman: Washington Hunt)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: John G. Chapman)
• Elections (Chairman: Richard W. Thompson)
• Engraving (Chairman: Lewis Charles Levin)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: James G. Hampton)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Patrick W. Tompkins)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: James Wilson)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Daniel M. Barringer)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Joseph M. Root)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: John H. Crozier)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Edward Carrington Cabell)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: John A. McClernand)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Daniel M. Barringer)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Andrew S. Fulton)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Joseph R. Ingersoll)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Andrew Stewart)
• Mileage (Chairman: Hiram Belcher)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John M. Botts)
• Militia (Chairman: John B. Thompson)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Butler King)
• Patents (Chairman: John W. Farrelly)
• Printing (Chairman: Harmon S. Conger)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: John Gayle)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: William L. Goggin)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: John W. Houston)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: Thomas L. Clingman)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Jacob Collamer)
• Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Henry Nes)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Daniel P. King)
• Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: William M. Cocke)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: Robert C. Schenck)
• Rules (Select)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Caleb B. Smith)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Samuel F. Vinton)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills
• The Library
• Printing

Employees

• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

• Chaplain: Henry Slicer (Methodist)
• Secretary: Asbury Dickins
• Sergeant at Arms: Robert Beale

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: William T.S. Sprole (Presbyterian), until December 6, 1847
  • Ralph Gurley (Presbyterian), elected December 6, 1847
• Clerk: Benjamin B. French, until December 8, 1847
  • Thomas J. Campbell, elected December 8, 1847
• Doorkeeper: Robert E. Horner, elected December 8, 1847
• Postmaster: John M. Johnson
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: Newton Lane, until December 8, 1847
  • Nathan Sergeant, elected December 8, 1847

Notes

References

References

1. Clark, Dan Elbert. (1913). "History of Senatorial Elections in Iowa". State Historical Society of Iowa.