32nd United States Congress

Major events

Main article: 1851 in the United States, 1852 in the United States, 1853 in the United States

• March 20, 1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin published.
• July 1, 1852: Henry Clay was the first to lie in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.
• November 2, 1852: 1852 United States presidential election: Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig Winfield Scott.

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation, 1789–1901

• March 2, 1853: An act providing for administering the oath of office to William R. King, Vice President elect of the United States of America. Sess. 2, Ch. 93,

Territories organized

• March 2, 1853: Washington Territory was formed from Oregon Territory.

Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

(until December 20, 1852)

(from December 20, 1852)

Senate

• President: Vacant (since the ascension of Millard Fillmore to U.S. President on July 9, 1850)
• President pro tempore: William R. King (D), until December 20, 1852
  • David R. Atchison (D), from December 20, 1852

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Linn Boyd (D)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class and representatives by district.

Senate

Main article: List of United States senators in the 32nd Congress

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, facing re-election in 1856; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1852; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1854.

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

: 2. Jeremiah Clemens (D) : 3. William R. King (D), until December 20, 1852 :: Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D), from January 14, 1853

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

: 2. William K. Sebastian (D) : 3. Solon Borland (D)

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

: 1. John B. Weller (D), from January 30, 1852 : 3. William M. Gwin (D)

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

: 1. Isaac Toucey (D), from May 12, 1852 : 3. Truman Smith (W)

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

: 1. James A. Bayard Jr. (D) : 2. Presley Spruance (W)

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

: 1. Stephen Mallory (D) : 3. Jackson Morton (W)

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

: 2. John Macpherson Berrien (W), until May 28, 1852 :: Robert M. Charlton (D), from May 31, 1852 : 3. William C. Dawson (W)

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

: 2. Stephen A. Douglas (D) : 3. James Shields (D)

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

: 1. Jesse D. Bright (D) : 3. James Whitcomb (D), until October 4, 1852 :: Charles W. Cathcart (D), from December 6, 1852, until January 18, 1853 :: John Pettit (D), from January 18, 1853

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

: 2. George Wallace Jones (D) : 3. Augustus C. Dodge (D)

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

: 2. Joseph R. Underwood (W) : 3. Henry Clay (W), until June 29, 1852 :: David Meriwether (D), from July 6, 1852, until August 31, 1852 :: Archibald Dixon (W), from September 1, 1852

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

: 2. Solomon W. Downs (D) : 3. Pierre Soulé (D)

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

: 1. Hannibal Hamlin (D) : 2. James W. Bradbury (D)

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

: 1. Thomas Pratt (W) : 3. James A. Pearce (W)

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

: 1. Charles Sumner (FS), from April 24, 1851 : 2. John Davis (W)

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

: 1. Lewis Cass (D) : 2. Alpheus Felch (D)

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

: 1. Jefferson Davis (D), until September 23, 1851 :: John J. McRae (D), from December 1, 1851, until March 17, 1852 :: Stephen Adams (D), from March 17, 1852 : 2. Henry S. Foote (D), until January 8, 1852 :: Walker Brooke (W), from February 18, 1852

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

: 1. Henry S. Geyer (W) : 3. David R. Atchison (D)

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

: 2. John P. Hale (FS) : 3. Moses Norris Jr. (D)

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

: 1. Robert F. Stockton (D), until January 1, 1853 : 2. Jacob W. Miller (W)

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

: 1. Hamilton Fish (W), from March 19, 1851 : 3. William H. Seward (W)

[[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. Benjamin Wade (W), from March 15, 1851 : 3. Salmon P. Chase (FS)

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

: 1. Richard Brodhead (D) : 3. James Cooper (W)

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

: 1. Charles T. James (D) : 2. John H. Clarke (W)

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

: 2. Robert Rhett (D), until May 7, 1852 :: William F. De Saussure (D), from May 10, 1852 : 3. Andrew Butler (D)

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

: 1. James C. Jones (W) : 2. John Bell (W)

[[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. Solomon Foot (W) : 3. William Upham (W), until January 14, 1853 :: Samuel S. Phelps (W), from January 17, 1853

[[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) : 3. Isaac P. Walker (D)

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House of Representatives

Main article: List of United States representatives in the 32nd Congress

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

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

: . John Bragg (D) : . James Abercrombie (W) : . Sampson W. Harris (D) : . William R. Smith (U) : . George S. Houston (D) : . Williamson R. W. Cobb (D) : . Alexander White (W)

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

: . Robert W. Johnson (D)

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

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Edward C. Marshall (D) : . Joseph W. McCorkle (D)

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

: . Charles Chapman (W) : . Colin M. Ingersoll (D) : . Chauncey F. Cleveland (D) : . Origen S. Seymour (D)

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

: . George Read Riddle (D)

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

: . Edward C. Cabell (W)

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

: . Joseph W. Jackson (SR) : . James Johnson (U) : . David J. Bailey (SR) : . Charles Murphey (U) : . Elijah W. Chastain (U) : . Junius Hillyer (U) : . Alexander H. Stephens (U) : . Robert A. Toombs (U)

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

: . William H. Bissell (D) : . Willis Allen (D) : . Orlando B. Ficklin (D) : . Richard S. Molony (D) : . William A. Richardson (D) : . Thompson Campbell (D) : . Richard Yates (W)

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

: . James Lockhart (D) : . Cyrus L. Dunham (D) : . John L. Robinson (D) : . Samuel W. Parker (W) : . Thomas A. Hendricks (D) : . Willis A. Gorman (D) : . John G. Davis (D) : . Daniel Mace (D) : . Graham N. Fitch (D) : . Samuel Brenton (W)

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

: . Bernhart Henn (D) : . Lincoln Clark (D)

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

: . Linn Boyd (D) : . Benjamin E. Grey (W) : . Presley Ewing (W) : . William T. Ward (W) : . James W. Stone (D) : . Addison White (W) : . Humphrey Marshall (W), until August 4, 1852 :: William Preston (W), from December 6, 1852 : . John C. Breckinridge (D) : . John C. Mason (D) : . Richard H. Stanton (D)

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

: . Louis St. Martin (D) : . J. Aristide Landry (W) : . Alexander G. Penn (D) : . John Moore (W)

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

: . Moses MacDonald (D) : . John Appleton (D) : . Robert Goodenow (W) : . Charles Andrews (D), until April 30, 1852 :: Isaac Reed (W), from June 25, 1852 : . Ephraim K. Smart (D) : . Israel Washburn Jr. (W) : . Thomas J. D. Fuller (D)

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

: . Richard Bowie (W) : . William T. Hamilton (D) : . Edward Hammond (D) : . Thomas Yates Walsh (W) : . Alexander Evans (W) : . Joseph S. Cottman (IW)

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

: . William Appleton (W) : . Robert Rantoul Jr. (D), until August 7, 1852 :: Francis B. Fay (W), from December 13, 1852 : . James H. Duncan (W) : . Benjamin Thompson (W), until September 24, 1852 :: Lorenzo Sabine (W), from December 13, 1852 : . Charles Allen (FS) : . George T. Davis (W) : . John Z. Goodrich (W) : . Horace Mann (FS) : . Orin Fowler (W), until September 3, 1852 :: Edward P. Little (D), from December 13, 1852 : . Zeno Scudder (W)

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

: . Ebenezer J. Penniman (W) : . Charles E. Stuart (D) : . James L. Conger (W)

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

: . Benjamin D. Nabers (U) : . John A. Wilcox (U) : . John D. Freeman (U) : . Albert G. Brown (SR)

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

: . John F. Darby (W) : . Gilchrist Porter (W) : . John G. Miller (W) : . Willard P. Hall (D) : . John S. Phelps (D)

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

: . Amos Tuck (W) : . Charles H. Peaslee (D) : . Jared Perkins (W) : . Harry Hibbard (D)

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

: . Nathan T. Stratton (D) : . Charles Skelton (D) : . Isaac Wildrick (D) : . George H. Brown (W) : . Rodman M. Price (D)

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

: . John G. Floyd (D) : . Obadiah Bowne (W) : . Emanuel B. Hart (D) : . John Haws (W) : . George Briggs (W) : . James Brooks (W) : . Abraham P. Stephens (D) : . Gilbert Dean (D) : . William Murray (D) : . Marius Schoonmaker (W) : . Josiah Sutherland (D) : . David L. Seymour (D) : . John L. Schoolcraft (W) : . John H. Boyd (W) : . Joseph Russell (D) : . John Wells (W) : . Alexander H. Buell (D), until January 29, 1853 : . Preston King (D) : . Willard Ives (D) : . Timothy Jenkins (D) : . William W. Snow (D) : . Henry Bennett (W) : . Leander Babcock (D) : . Daniel T. Jones (D) : . Thomas Y. Howe Jr. (D) : . Henry S. Walbridge (W) : . William A. Sackett (W) : . Abraham M. Schermerhorn (W) : . Jerediah Horsford (W) : . Reuben Robie (D) : . Frederick S. Martin (W) : . Solomon G. Haven (W) : . Augustus P. Hascall (W) : . Lorenzo Burrows (W)

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

: . Thomas L. Clingman (W) : . Joseph P. Caldwell (W) : . Alfred Dockery (W) : . James T. Morehead (W) : . Abraham W. Venable (D) : . John R. J. Daniel (D) : . William S. Ashe (D) : . Edward Stanly (W) : . David Outlaw (W)

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

: . David T. Disney (D) : . Lewis D. Campbell (W) : . Hiram Bell (W) : . Benjamin Stanton (W) : . Alfred P. Edgerton (D) : . Frederick W. Green (D) : . Nelson Barrere (W) : . John L. Taylor (W) : . Edson B. Olds (D) : . Charles Sweetser (D) : . George H. Busby (D) : . John Welch (W) : . James M. Gaylord (D) : . Alexander Harper (W) : . William F. Hunter (W) : . John Johnson (ID) : . Joseph Cable (D) : . David K. Cartter (D) : . Eben Newton (W) : . Joshua R. Giddings (FS) : . Norton S. Townshend (D)

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

: . Thomas B. Florence (D) : . Joseph R. Chandler (W) : . Henry D. Moore (W) : . John Robbins Jr. (D) : . John McNair (D) : . Thomas Ross (D) : . John A. Morrison (D) : . Thaddeus Stevens (W) : . J. Glancey Jones (D) : . Milo M. Dimmick (D) : . Henry M. Fuller (W) : . Galusha A. Grow (D) : . James Gamble (D) : . Thomas M. Bibighaus (W) : . William H. Kurtz (D) : . James X. McLanahan (D) : . Andrew Parker (D) : . John L. Dawson (D) : . Joseph H. Kuhns (W) : . John Allison (W) : . Thomas M. Howe (W) : . John W. Howe (W) : . Carlton B. Curtis (D) : . Alfred Gilmore (D)

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

: . George G. King (W) : . Benjamin B. Thurston (D)

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

: . Daniel Wallace (D) : . James L. Orr (D) : . Joseph A. Woodward (D) : . John McQueen (D) : . Armistead Burt (D) : . William Aiken Jr. (D) : . William F. Colcock (D)

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

: . Andrew Johnson (D) : . Albert G. Watkins (W) : . William M. Churchwell (D) : . John H. Savage (D) : . George W.Jones (D) : . William H. Polk (ID) : . Meredith P. Gentry (W) : . William Cullom (W) : . Isham G. Harris (D) : . Frederick P. Stanton (D) : . Christopher H. Williams (W)

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

: . Richardson A. Scurry (D) : . Volney E. Howard (D)

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

: . Ahiman L. Miner (W) : . William Hebard (W) : . James Meacham (W) : . Thomas Bartlett Jr. (D)

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

: . John S. Millson (D) : . Richard K. Meade (D) : . Thomas H. Averett (D) : . Thomas S. Bocock (D) : . Paulus Powell (D) : . John Caskie (D) : . Thomas H. Bayly (D) : . Alexander Holladay (D) : . James F. Strother (W) : . Charles J. Faulkner Sr. (W) : . John Letcher (D) : . Henry A. Edmundson (D) : . LaFayette McMullen (D) : . James M. H. Beale (D) : . George W. Thompson (D), until July 30, 1852 :: Sherrard Clemens (D), from December 6, 1852

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

: . Charles Durkee (FS) : . Ben C. Eastman (D) : . James D. Doty (ID)

Non-voting members

: . Henry H. Sibley : . Richard H. Weightman (D) : . Joseph Lane (D) : . John M. Bernhisel

Changes in membership

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

Senate

• Replacements: 8
  • Democrats (D): 1 seat net gain
  • Whigs (W): 1 seat net loss
• Deaths: 3
• Resignations: 6
• Interim appointments: 3
• Total seats with changes: 13 Sorted Chronologically by date of vacancy --

|- | Ohio (1) | Vacant | Failure to elect. The winner was elected late on March 15, 1851, on the 37th ballot over the incumbent appointee. Successor was elected March 15, 1851. | | Benjamin Wade (W) | Elected March 15, 1851

|- | New York (1) | Vacant | Failure to elect. Successor was elected March 19, 1851. | | Hamilton Fish (W) | Elected March 19, 1851

|- | Massachusetts (1) | Vacant | Failure to elect. Successor was elected April 24, 1851. | | Charles Sumner (FS) | Elected April 24, 1851

|- | California (1) | Vacant | Failure to elect. Successor was elected January 30, 1852. | | John B. Weller (D) | Elected January 30, 1852

|- | Connecticut (1) | Vacant | Failure to elect. Successor was elected May 12, 1852. | | Isaac Toucey (D) | Seated May 12, 1852

|- | Mississippi (1) | | Jefferson Davis (D) | Resigned September 23, 1851, to run for Governor of Mississippi. Successor appointed December 1, 1851. | | John J. McRae (D) | Appointed December 1, 1851

|- | Mississippi (2) | | Henry S. Foote (D) | Resigned January 8, 1852, to become Governor of Mississippi. Successor elected February 18, 1852. | | Walker Brooke (W) | Elected February 18, 1852

|- | Mississippi (1) | | John J. McRae (D) | Appointee was replaced by an elected successor. Successor elected March 17, 1852. | | Stephen Adams (D) | Elected March 17, 1852

|- | South Carolina (2) | | Robert Rhett (D) | Resigned May 7, 1852. Successor appointed May 10, 1852, and elected sometime thereafter to finish the term. | | William F. De Saussure (D) | Appointed May 10, 1852

|- | Georgia (2) | | John M. Berrien (W) | Resigned May 28, 1852. Successor appointed May 31, 1852, to finish the term. | | Robert M. Charlton (D) | Appointed May 31, 1852

|- | Kentucky (3) | | Henry Clay (W) | Died June 29, 1852. Successor appointed July 6, 1852. | | David Meriwether (D) | Appointed July 6, 1852

|- | Indiana (3) | | James Whitcomb (D) | Died October 4, 1852. Successor appointed December 6, 1852. | | Charles W. Cathcart (D) | Appointed December 6, 1852

|- | Kentucky (3) | | David Meriwether (D) | Appointee was replaced by an elected successor. Successor elected September 1, 1852. | | Archibald Dixon (W) | Elected September 1, 1852

|- | Alabama (3) | | William R. King (D) | Resigned December 20, 1852, due to ill health, having recently being elected Vice President of the United States Successor appointed January 14, 1853, and elected December 12, 1853 thereafter to finish the term. | | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | Appointed January 14, 1853

|- | New Jersey (1) | | Robert F. Stockton (D) | Resigned January 1, 1853, to become president of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company. Successor was not elected until the next Congress. | Vacant | Not filled this term

|- | Vermont (3) | | William Upham (W) | Died January 14, 1853. Successor appointed January 17, 1853, to continue the term. | | Samuel S. Phelps (W) | Appointed January 17, 1853

|- | Indiana (3) | | Charles W. Cathcart (D) | Appointee was replaced by an elected successor. Successor elected January 18, 1853. | | John Pettit (D) | Elected January 18, 1853 |}

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 6
  • Democrats (D): 1 seat net loss
  • Whigs (W): 1 seat net gain
• Deaths: 2
• Resignations: 5
• Total seats with changes: 7

Sorted Chronologically by date of vacancy

Main article: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

|- | | | Charles Andrews (D) | Died April 30, 1852 | | Isaac Reed (W)

| | | George W. Thompson (D) | Resigned July 30, 1852, after being appointed judge of the Circuit Court of Virginia | | Sherrard Clemens (D)

| | | Humphrey Marshall (W) | Resigned August 4, 1852, after being appointed Minister to China | | William Preston (W)

| | | Robert Rantoul Jr. (D) | Died August 7, 1852 | | Francis B. Fay (W)

| | | Orin Fowler (W) | Died September 3, 1852 | | Edward P. Little (D)

| | | Benjamin Thompson (W) | Died September 24, 1852 | | Lorenzo Sabine (W)

| | | Alexander H. Buell (D) | Died January 29, 1853 | Vacant | Not filled this term |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Agriculture (Chairman: Pierre Soule)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Augustus Dodge)
• Claims (Chairman: Richard Brodhead)
• Commerce (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin)
• Contested Election of 1850 (Chairman: N/A)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: James Shields)
• Emigrant Route and Telegraphic Line to California (Select)
• Ether Discovery (Select)
• Finance (Chairman: Robert M.T. Hunter)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: James M. Mason)
• French Spoilations (Select)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: David R. Atchison)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Andrew P. Butler)
• Manufactures (Chairman: William K. Sebastian)
• Library (Chairman: James A. Pearce)
• Mexican Boundary (Select)
• Mexican Boundary Commission (Select)
• Mexican Claims Commission (Select)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: James Shields)
• Militia (Chairman: Sam Houston)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: William M. Gwin)
• Ordnance and War Ships (Select)
• Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Moses Norris Jr. and Charles T. James)
• Pensions (Chairman: George Wallace Jones)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Thomas J. Rusk)
• Printing (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Solomon W. Downs)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: James Whitcomb)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Alpheus Felch)
• Purchase of Catlin's Collection of Indian Scenes (Select)
• Retrenchment (Chairman: James W. Bradbury)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Issac P. Walker)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: Jesse D. Bright)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Stephen A. Douglas)
• Seventh Census (Select)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: John C. Mason)
• Agriculture (Chairman: John G. Floyd)
• Bounty Land Act of 1850 (Select)
• Bounty Land Bill (Chairman: Cyrus L. Dunham)
• Claims (Chairman: John Reeves Jones Daniel)
• Commerce (Chairman: David L. Seymour)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Orlando B. Ficklin)
• Elections (Chairman: William S. Ashe)
• Engraving (Chairman: Edward Hammond)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Fayette McMullen)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Alexander G. Penn)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Charles E. Stuart)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Benjamin B. Thurston)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Milo M. Dimmick)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Thomas Bartlett Jr.)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas H. Bayly)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Robert W. Johnson)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Isham G. Harris)
• Judiciary (Chairman: James X. McLanahan)
• Manufactures (Chairman: James M.H. Beale)
• Mileage (Chairman: Thomas A. Hendricks)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: William H. Bissell)
• Militia (Chairman: Charles H. Peaslee)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick P. Stanton)
• Patents (Chairman: David K. Cartter)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Edson B. Olds)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Timothy Jenkins)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard H. Stanton)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: Charles Sweetser)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Willard P. Hall)
• Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Williamson R. W. Cobb)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Moses Macdonald)
• Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: John S. Millson)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: John L. Robinson)
• Rules (Chairman: Willard P. Hall)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: William A. Richardson)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: George S. Houston)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Rep. Isaac Wildrick)
• The Library (Chairman: Joseph R. Chandler)
• Printing (Chairman: Willis A. Gorman)

Caucuses

• Senate Democratic Caucus
• House Democratic Caucus

Employees

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

• Architect of the Capitol: Thomas U. Walter, appointed June 11, 1851
• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

• Chaplain: Clement M. Butler (Episcopalian)
• Secretary: Asbury Dickins
• Sergeant at Arms: Robert Beale

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Ralph Randolph Gurley (Presbyterian), until December 1, 1851
  • Lyttleton Morgan (Methodist), elected December 1, 1851
  • James Gallagher (Presbyterian), elected December 6, 1852
• Clerk: Richard M. Young, until December 1, 1851
  • John W. Forney, from December 1, 1851
• Doorkeeper: Zadock W. McKnew
• Reading Clerks:
• Sergeant at Arms: Adam J. Glossbrenner
• Postmaster: John M. Johnson

Notes

References

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