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18 files changed, 371 insertions(+), 183 deletions(−)
Laws enacted
0
major laws · full counts from 1973
Executive orders
—
records start in 1994
Final rules
—
records start in 1994
Supreme Court
3 of 9
seats changed hands
Agencies
+0 −0
departments & tracked agencies
Public debt
+$5M
$340,000 → $5M

The presidency passed from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren. 25 senators and 157 representatives took seats that they did not hold before. 3 new justices joined the Supreme Court.

Executive5 files+8−3

executive/presidentThe presidency
Andrew Jackson D
7th president
Martin Van Buren D
8th president · took office Mar 4, 1837
executive/vice-presidentThe vice presidency
Martin Van Buren D
Richard Mentor Johnson D
took office Mar 4, 1837
executive/cabinetCabinet & senior officials
Attorney General · 2 people took this office in between
Other senior officials (2 changed)
2 offices unchanged
Secretary of State: John Forsyth D
Secretary of the Treasury: Levi Woodbury D
executive/ordersExecutive orders
Federal Register records of executive orders begin in 1994.
executive/agenciesFederal agencies
24 → 24 tracked organizations · 5 → 5 executive departments
No agencies created or abolished in this window.
Agency start and end dates come from Wikidata, which covers smaller bureaus unevenly.

Military1 file±0

military/conflictsArmed conflicts
U.S. in 0 armed conflicts → 0
The U.S. was not a party to any armed conflict in this window (conflict records start in 1946).
An armed conflict here means at least 25 battle deaths in a year, with U.S. forces as a party or fighting for a government (UCDP's definition). Air strikes, raids, and advisory missions below that threshold aren't included. UN peacekeeping missions are excluded.

Legislative4 files+182−179

legislative/controlControl of Congress
Top: House · Bottom: Senate DemocraticRepublicanOther
24th Congress → 26th Congress · 2 new Congresses elected
1 change of chamber control along the way
House: Democrat majority
110 J · 64 W
House: null majority
113 D · 95 W
Senate: Democrat majority on both dates
22 D · 13 W → 29 D · 19 W
Mar 4, 1837 · 22 D · 13 W · 8 J · 4 AJ · 1 A · 1 N · 1 U
William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat, AL)Ambrose Hundley Sevier (Democrat, AR)William Savin Fulton (Democrat, AR)John Milton Niles (Democrat, CT)John Pendleton King (Democrat, GA)John McCracken Robinson (Democrat, IL)John Tipton (Democrat, IN)Robert Carter Nicholas (Democrat, LA)John Ruggles (Democrat, ME)Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat, MO)Robert John Walker (Democrat, MS)Bedford Brown (Democrat, NC)Robert Strange (Democrat, NC)Henry Hubbard (Democrat, NH)Garret Dorset Wall (Democrat, NJ)Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (Democrat, NY)Thomas Morris (Democrat, OH)Samuel McKean (Democrat, PA)John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat, SC)Felix Grundy (Democrat, TN)William Cabell Rives (Democrat, VA)Richard Elliott Parker (Democrat, VA)Gabriel Moore (Jackson, AL)Gideon Tomlinson (Anti-Jacksonian, CT)John Middleton Clayton (?, DE)Alfred Cuthbert (Jackson, GA)William Lee Davidson Ewing (Jackson, IL)William Hendricks (Adams, IN)Alexander Porter (Anti-Jacksonian, LA)Judah Dana (Jackson, ME)Lewis Fields Linn (Jackson, MO)John Page (Jackson, NH)Silas Wright Jr. (Jackson, NY)Thomas Ewing (Anti-Jacksonian, OH)James Buchanan (Jackson, PA)William Campbell Preston (Nullifier, SC)Samuel Prentiss (Anti-Jacksonian, VT)Richard Henry Bayard (Whig, DE)Henry Clay (Whig, KY)John Jordan Crittenden (Whig, KY)Daniel Webster (Whig, MA)John Davis (Whig, MA)Joseph Kent (Whig, MD)John Selby Spence (Whig, MD)John Black (Whig, MS)Samuel Lewis Southard (Whig, NJ)Asher Robbins (Whig, RI)Nehemiah Rice Knight (Whig, RI)Hugh Lawson White (Whig, TN)Benjamin Swift (Whig, VT)
Mar 3, 1841 · 29 D · 19 W
William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat, AL)Clement Comer Clay (Democrat, AL)William Savin Fulton (Democrat, AR)Ambrose Hundley Sevier (Democrat, AR)Perry Smith (Democrat, CT)Wilson Lumpkin (Democrat, GA)Alfred Cuthbert (Democrat, GA)John McCracken Robinson (Democrat, IL)Richard Montgomery Young (Democrat, IL)Robert Carter Nicholas (Democrat, LA)Alexander Mouton (Democrat, LA)John Ruggles (Democrat, ME)Reuel Williams (Democrat, ME)John Norvell (Democrat, MI)Lewis Fields Linn (Democrat, MO)Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat, MO)Robert John Walker (Democrat, MS)Henry Hubbard (Democrat, NH)Franklin Pierce (Democrat, NH)Garret Dorset Wall (Democrat, NJ)Silas Wright Jr. (Democrat, NY)William Allen (Democrat, OH)Benjamin Tappan (Democrat, OH)James Buchanan (Democrat, PA)Daniel Sturgeon (Democrat, PA)John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat, SC)Alexander Outlaw Anderson (Democrat, TN)Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (Democrat, TN)William Henry Roane (Democrat, VA)Jabez Williams Huntington (Whig, CT)Thomas Clayton (Whig, DE)Oliver Hampton Smith (Whig, IN)Albert Smith White (Whig, IN)John Jordan Crittenden (Whig, KY)Henry Clay (Whig, KY)John Davis (Whig, MA)William Duhurst Merrick (Whig, MD)Augustus Seymour Porter (Whig, MI)John Henderson (Whig, MS)Willie Person Mangum (Whig, NC)William Alexander Graham (Whig, NC)Samuel Lewis Southard (Whig, NJ)Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (Whig, NY)Nehemiah Rice Knight (Whig, RI)Nathan Fellows Dixon (Whig, RI)William Campbell Preston (Whig, SC)Samuel Prentiss (Whig, VT)Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig, VT)
25 new members · 27 departed · 23 served on both dates · women 0 → 0 · median age 50 → 51
21 seats changed party
Show 17 more seat flips
Who joined and who left (25 in · 27 out)
Perry Smith D
Connecticut
Thomas Clayton W
Delaware
Alexander Mouton D
Louisiana
John Norvell D
Michigan
John Henderson W
Mississippi
Willie Person Mangum W
North Carolina
William Alexander Graham W
North Carolina
Franklin Pierce D
New Hampshire
Daniel Sturgeon D
Pennsylvania
Nathan Fellows Dixon W
Rhode Island
Gabriel Moore J
Alabama
Gideon Tomlinson AJ
Connecticut
John Milton Niles D
Connecticut
John Tipton D
Indiana
Alexander Porter AJ
Louisiana
Daniel Webster W
Massachusetts
Joseph Kent W
Maryland
Judah Dana J
Maine
John Black W
Mississippi
Bedford Brown D
North Carolina
Robert Strange D
North Carolina
John Page J
New Hampshire
Samuel McKean D
Pennsylvania
Asher Robbins W
Rhode Island
Felix Grundy D
Tennessee
Mar 4, 1837 · 110 J · 64 W · 13 AM · 8 N · 5 J · 5 AJ · 3 AJ · 1 U · 1 D
George Wallace Jones (Democrat, MI-AL)Joab Lawler (Jackson, AL-3)Joshua Lanier Martin (Jackson, AL-2)Reuben Chapman (Jackson, AL-1)Dixon Hall Lewis (Nullifier, AL-4)Archibald Yell (Jackson, AR-1)Andrew Thompson Judson (Jackson, CT-AL)Joseph M. White (?, FL-AL)John Coffee (Jackson, GA-AL)William L. May (Jackson, IL-3)Zadok Casey (Jackson, IL-2)John Reynolds (Jackson, IL-1)George L. Kinnard (Jackson, IN-6)Amos Lane (Jackson, IN-4)Johnathan McCarty (Anti Jacksonian, IN-5)Ratliff Boon (Jackson, IN-1)John Carr (Jackson, IN-3)Edward Allen Hannegan (Jackson, IN-7)John Wesley Davis (Jackson, IN-2)Albert Gallatin Hawes (Jackson, KY-2)Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson, KY-13)Richard French (Jackson, KY-11)Linn Boyd (Jackson, KY-1)Rice Garland (Anti-Jacksonian, LA-3)Eleazar Wheelock Ripley (Jackson, LA-2)William Jackson (Anti Masonic, MA-9)John Reed (Anti Masonic, MA-11)Nathaniel Briggs Borden (Jackson, MA-10)John Quincy Adams (Anti Masonic, MA-12)John Nevett Steele (Anti Jacksonian, MD-1)James Turner (Jackson, MD-3)George Corbin Washington (Anti Jacksonian, MD-5)Benjamin Chew Howard (Jackson, MD-4)Francis Thomas (Jackson, MD-6)Joseph Hall (Jackson, ME-6)Leonard Jarvis (Jackson, ME-7)Moses Mason Jr. (Jackson, ME-5)Gorham Parks (Jackson, ME-8)Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (Jackson, ME-2)John Fairfield (Jackson, ME-1)Isaac Edwin Crary (Jackson, MI-1)William Henry Ashley (Jacksonian, MO-AL)David Dickson (Anti-Jacksonian, MS-AL)Jesse Atherton Bynum (Jackson, NC-2)Henry William Connor (Jackson, NC-11)Micajah Thomas Hawkins (Jackson, NC-6)William Montgomery (Jackson, NC-8)Jesse Speight (Jackson, NC-4)James Iver McKay (Jackson, NC-5)Benning Moulton Bean (Jackson, NH-AL)Samuel Barton (Jackson, NY-2)Abraham Bockee (Jackson, NY-5)Matthias Jacob Bovee (Jackson, NY-15)John W. Brown (Jackson, NY-6)Graham Hurd Chapin (Jackson, NY-25)John Cramer (Jackson, NY-11)Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (Jackson, NY-24)Valentine Efner (Jackson, NY-8)Dudley Farlin (Jackson, NY-13)William Kendall Fuller (Jackson, NY-23)Ransom Hooker Gillet (Jackson, NY-14)Abel Huntington (Jackson, NY-1)Gerrit Yates Lansing (Jackson, NY-10)Gideon Lee (Jackson, NY-3)Joshua Lee (Jackson, NY-27)Abijah Mann Jr. (Jackson, NY-16)William Mason (Jackson, NY-21)Rutger Bleecker Miller (Jackson, NY-17)Sherman Page (Jackson, NY-19)Joseph Reynolds (Jackson, NY-22)William Seymour (Jackson, NY-20)Nicholas Sickles (Jackson, NY-7)Daniel Wardwell (Jackson, NY-18)Campbell Patrick White (Jacksonian, NY-AL)Aaron Ward (Jackson, NY-4)Benjamin Jones (Jackson, OH-18)William Kennon Sr. (Jackson, OH-11)Jeremiah McLene (Jackson, OH-8)William Patterson (Jackson, OH-14)Jonathan Sloane (Anti Masonic, OH-15)John Thomson (Jackson, OH-17)John Chaney (Jackson, OH-9)Thomas Lyon Hamer (Jackson, OH-5)Daniel Kilgore (Jackson, OH-19)Taylor Webster (Jackson, OH-2)Joseph Biles Anthony (Jackson, PA-16)Michael Woolston Ash (Jackson, PA-3)John Banks (Anti Masonic, PA-24)Andrew Beaumont (Jackson, PA-15)George Chambers (Anti Masonic, PA-12)William Clark (Anti Masonic, PA-10)Harmar Denny (Anti Masonic, PA-22)Samuel Smith Harrison (Jackson, PA-23)Joseph Henderson (Jackson, PA-14)William Hiester (Anti Masonic, PA-4)John Laporte (Jackson, PA-17)Jesse Miller (Jackson, PA-13)Joel Barlow Sutherland (Jackson, PA-1)Andrew Buchanan (Jackson, PA-20)Jacob Fry Jr. (Jackson, PA-5)Edward Burd Hubley (Jackson, PA-8)John Klingensmith Jr. (Jackson, PA-19)Henry Logan (Jackson, PA-11)Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg (Jackson, PA-9)John Galbraith (Jackson, PA-25)David Douglas Wagener (Jackson, PA-7)Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (Anti Masonic, PA-21)Job Mann (Jackson, PA-18)Dutee Jerauld Pearce (Anti Masonic, RI-AL)Robert Blair Campbell (Nullifier, SC-3)Warren Ransom Davis (Nullifier, SC-AL)William John Grayson (Nullifier, SC-2)Richard Irvine Manning (Jackson, SC-8)Henry Laurens Pinckney (Nullifier, SC-1)John King Griffin (Nullifier, SC-9)Waddy Thompson Jr. (Anti Jacksonian, SC-6)Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Nullifier, SC-5)James Rogers (Jackson, SC-7)Franklin Harper Elmore (Nullifier, SC-4)Samuel Bunch (Jacksonian, TN-2)William Claiborne Dunlap (Jackson, TN-13)John B. Forester (Anti-Jacksonian, TN-5)Adam Huntsman (Jackson, TN-12)Luke Lea (Jacksonian, TN-3)Balie Peyton (Jacksonian, TN-6)Cave Johnson (Jackson, TN-11)James Knox Polk (Jackson, TN-9)Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (Anti Jacksonian, VA-7)George Loyall (Jackson, VA-1)Edward Lucas (Jackson, VA-15)John Young Mason (Jackson, VA-2)John Roane (Jackson, VA-9)James Wood Bouldin (Jackson, VA-5)William Stephen Morgan (Jackson, VA-21)John Mercer Patton (Jackson, VA-13)Robert Craig (Jackson, VA-17)James Garland (Jackson, VA-12)Walter Coles (Jackson, VA-6)John Winston Jones (Jackson, VA-3)Henry Alexander Wise (Jackson, VA-8)Joseph Johnson (Jackson, VA-20)George Coke Dromgoole (Jackson, VA-4)James Madison Hite Beale (Jackson, VA-16)George Washington Hopkins (Jackson, VA-18)Henry Fisk Janes (Anti Masonic, VT-5)William Slade (Anti Masonic, VT-2)Francis Strother Lyon (Whig, AL-5)John Jones Milligan (Whig, DE-AL)Chilton Allan (Whig, KY-10)Benjamin Hardin (Whig, KY-7)John Calhoon (Whig, KY-6)John Chambers (Whig, KY-12)James Harlan (Whig, KY-5)William Jordan Graves (Whig, KY-8)Sherrod Williams (Whig, KY-4)John White (Whig, KY-9)Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig, KY-3)Henry Johnson (Whig, LA-1)Samuel Hoar (Whig, MA-4)George Grennell Jr. (Whig, MA-6)Stephen Clarendon Phillips (Whig, MA-2)Abbott Lawrence (Whig, MA-1)George Nixon Briggs (Whig, MA-7)William Barron Calhoun (Whig, MA-8)Caleb Cushing (Whig, MA-3)Levi Lincoln (Whig, MA-5)Daniel Jenifer (Whig, MD-7)James Alfred Pearce (Whig, MD-2)Jeremiah Bailey (Whig, ME-3)George Evans (Whig, ME-4)Ebenezer Pettigrew (Whig, NC-3)William Biddle Shepard (Whig, NC-1)Abraham Rencher (Whig, NC-10)Lewis Williams (Whig, NC-13)James Graham (Whig, NC-12)Edmund Deberry (Whig, NC-7)Augustine Henry Shepperd (Whig, NC-9)William Chetwood (Whig, NJ-AL)Philo Case Fuller (Whig, NY-30)Gideon Hard (Whig, NY-33)Abner Hazeltine (Whig, NY-31)George Washington Lay (Whig, NY-29)Thomas Cutting Love (Whig, NY-32)David Abel Russell (Whig, NY-12)Timothy Childs (Whig, NY-28)Francis Granger (Whig, NY-26)Hiram Paine Hunt (Whig, NY-9)Joseph Halsey Crane (Whig, OH-3)Elias Howell (Whig, OH-12)David Spangler (Whig, OH-13)Bellamy Storer (Whig, OH-1)Elisha Whittlesey (Whig, OH-16)William Key Bond (Whig, OH-7)Samson Mason (Whig, OH-10)Samuel Finley Vinton (Whig, OH-6)Thomas Corwin (Whig, OH-4)James Harper (Whig, PA-2)Mathias Morris (Whig, PA-6)Abram Poindexter Maury (Whig, TN-8)Ebenezer J. Shields (Whig, TN-10)James Israel Standifer (Whig, TN-4)William Blount Carter (Whig, TN-1)John Bell (Whig, TN-7)William McComas (Whig, VA-19)John Robertson (Whig, VA-11)Charles Fenton Mercer (Whig, VA-14)John Taliaferro (Whig, VA-10)Heman Allen (Whig, VT-4)Horace Everett (Whig, VT-3)Hiland Hall (Whig, VT-1)
Mar 3, 1841 · 113 D · 95 W · 4 AM · 2 C · 1 U
Reuben Chapman (Democrat, AL-1)Dixon Hall Lewis (Democrat, AL-4)David Hubbard (Democrat, AL-2)Edward Cross (Democrat, AR-1)Thomas Robinson Jr. (Democrat, DE-AL)Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat, IA-AL)Zadok Casey (Democrat, IL-2)John Reynolds (Democrat, IL-1)John Carr (Democrat, IN-3)Tilghman Ashurst Howard (Democrat, IN-7)John Wesley Davis (Democrat, IN-2)Thomas Smith (Democrat, IN-4)William Watson Wick (Democrat, IN-6)William Orlando Butler (Democrat, KY-13)Linn Boyd (Democrat, KY-1)Eleazar Wheelock Ripley (Democrat, LA-AL)William Parmenter (Democrat, MA-4)Henry Williams (Democrat, MA-10)James Carroll (Democrat, MD-4)John Tolley Hood Worthington (Democrat, MD-3)Francis Thomas (Democrat, MD-6)Phillip Francis Thomas (Democrat, MD-2)Hugh Johnston Anderson (Democrat, ME-6)Thomas Davee (Democrat, ME-8)Virgil Delphini Parris (Democrat, ME-5)Albert Smith (Democrat, ME-2)Nathan Clifford (Democrat, ME-1)Joshua Adams Lowell (Democrat, ME-7)Isaac Edwin Crary (Democrat, MI-1)Albert Galliton Harrison (Democrat, MO-AL)Jacob Thompson (Democrat, MS-AL)Jesse Atherton Bynum (Democrat, NC-2)Henry William Connor (Democrat, NC-11)Charles Fisher (Democrat, NC-10)Micajah Thomas Hawkins (Democrat, NC-6)John Hill (Democrat, NC-9)William Montgomery (Democrat, NC-8)Charles Biddle Shepard (Democrat, NC-4)James Iver McKay (Democrat, NC-5)Ira Allen Eastman (Democrat, NH-AL)William Raworth Cooper (Democrat, NJ-AL)Judson Allen (Democrat, NY-20)James De La Montanya (Democrat, NY-2)Nehemiah Hezekiah Earll (Democrat, NY-23)John Ely (Democrat, NY-8)John Fine (Democrat, NY-14)Augustus Cincinnatus Hand (Democrat, NY-13)Thomas Birdsall Jackson (Democrat, NY-1)Nathaniel Jones (Democrat, NY-6)Gouverneur Kemble (Democrat, NY-4)Stephen Banks Leonard (Democrat, NY-22)Meredith Mallory (Democrat, NY-27)John Holmes Prentiss (Democrat, NY-19)Theron Rudd Strong (Democrat, NY-25)David P. Brewster (Democrat, NY-17)Andrew Wheeler Doig (Democrat, NY-16)Daniel Parkhurst Leadbetter (Democrat, OH-13)Henry Swearingen (Democrat, OH-19)Jonathan Taylor (Democrat, OH-12)William Doan (Democrat, OH-5)John Hastings (Democrat, OH-17)William Medill (Democrat, OH-9)George Sweeny (Democrat, OH-14)Alexander Duncan (Democrat, OH-1)Isaac Parrish (Democrat, OH-11)David Austin Starkweather (Democrat, OH-18)John B. Weller (Democrat, OH-2)William Beatty (Democrat, PA-23)John Davis (Democrat, PA-6)John Galbraith (Democrat, PA-25)Robert Hanna Hammond (Democrat, PA-16)Isaac Leet (Democrat, PA-21)Charles McClure (Democrat, PA-13)George McCulloch (Democrat, PA-14)Samuel Wells Morris (Democrat, PA-17)Lemuel Paynter (Democrat, PA-1)David Petrikin (Democrat, PA-15)David Douglas Wagener (Democrat, PA-7)Joseph Fornance (Democrat, PA-5)James Gerry (Democrat, PA-11)Enos Hook (Democrat, PA-20)George May Keim (Democrat, PA-9)Albert Gallatin Marchand (Democrat, PA-19)Peter Newhard (Democrat, PA-8)John King Griffin (Democrat, SC-9)Sampson Hale Butler (Democrat, SC-4)Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Democrat, SC-5)James Rogers (Democrat, SC-7)Thomas De Lage Sumter (Democrat, SC-8)John Campbell (Democrat, SC-3)Isaac Edward Holmes (Democrat, SC-1)Robert Barnwell Rhett (Democrat, SC-2)Abraham McClellan (Democrat, TN-2)Harvey Magee Watterson (Democrat, TN-9)Julius W. Blackwell (Democrat, TN-4)Aaron Venable Brown (Democrat, TN-10)Cave Johnson (Democrat, TN-11)Hopkins Lacy Turney (Democrat, TN-5)Andrew Beirne (Democrat, VA-19)Robert Craig (Democrat, VA-17)Joel Holleman (Democrat, VA-1)Francis Everod Rives (Democrat, VA-2)Green Berry Samuels (Democrat, VA-16)Linn Banks (Democrat, VA-13)Walter Coles (Democrat, VA-6)John Winston Jones (Democrat, VA-3)William Lucas (Democrat, VA-15)Lewis Steenrod (Democrat, VA-21)Joseph Johnson (Democrat, VA-20)George Coke Dromgoole (Democrat, VA-4)Isaac Fletcher (Democrat, VT-5)John Smith (Democrat, VT-4)James Duane Doty (Democrat, WI-AL)Charles Downing (?, FL-AL)Richard Biddle (Anti Masonic, PA-22)Edward Davies (Anti Masonic, PA-4)Thomas Henry (Anti Masonic, PA-24)Charles Ogle (Anti Masonic, PA-18)James Garland (Conservative, VA-12)George Washington Hopkins (Conservative, VA-18)George Whitfield Crabb (Whig, AL-3)James Dellet (Whig, AL-5)William Lucius Storrs (Whig, CT-2)John Hall Brockway (Whig, CT-6)Thomas Burr Osborne (Whig, CT-4)Joseph Trumbull (Whig, CT-1)Thomas Wheeler Williams (Whig, CT-3)Truman Smith (Whig, CT-5)Hines Holt (Whig, GA-AL)John Todd Stuart (Whig, IL-3)James Rariden (Whig, IN-5)George H. Proffit (Whig, IN-1)Simeon H. Anderson (Whig, KY-5)William Jordan Graves (Whig, KY-8)Richard Hawes (Whig, KY-10)Sherrod Williams (Whig, KY-4)Landaff Watson Andrews (Whig, KY-11)John Pope (Whig, KY-7)Philip Triplett (Whig, KY-2)Willis Green (Whig, KY-6)John White (Whig, KY-9)Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig, KY-3)Garrett Davis (Whig, KY-12)Thomas Withers Chinn (Whig, LA-2)Rice Garland (Whig, LA-3)Edward Douglass White (Whig, LA-1)James Church Alvord (Whig, MA-6)Abbott Lawrence (Whig, MA-1)John Reed (Whig, MA-11)George Nixon Briggs (Whig, MA-7)William Barron Calhoun (Whig, MA-8)Caleb Cushing (Whig, MA-3)William Soden Hastings (Whig, MA-9)Levi Lincoln (Whig, MA-5)Leverett Saltonstall (Whig, MA-2)John Quincy Adams (Whig, MA-12)John Dennis (Whig, MD-1)Daniel Jenifer (Whig, MD-7)William Cost Johnson (Whig, MD-5)George Evans (Whig, ME-4)Benjamin Randall (Whig, ME-3)Lewis Williams (Whig, NC-13)Kenneth Rayner (Whig, NC-1)James Graham (Whig, NC-12)Edmund Deberry (Whig, NC-7)Edward Stanly (Whig, NC-3)Anson Brown (Whig, NY-11)Edward Curtis (Whig, NY-3)Charles Johnston (Whig, NY-5)Thomas Kempshall (Whig, NY-28)Richard Pratt Marvin (Whig, NY-31)Charles F. Mitchell (Whig, NY-33)Rufus Palen (Whig, NY-7)Luther Christopher Peck (Whig, NY-30)David Abel Russell (Whig, NY-12)Peter Joseph Wagner (Whig, NY-15)Thomas Cotton Chittenden (Whig, NY-18)John Chamberlain Clark (Whig, NY-21)Seth Merrill Gates (Whig, NY-29)Francis Granger (Whig, NY-26)Hiram Paine Hunt (Whig, NY-9)Christopher Morgan (Whig, NY-24)Daniel Dewey Barnard (Whig, NY-10)Millard Fillmore (Whig, NY-32)John William Allen (Whig, OH-15)William Key Bond (Whig, OH-7)Patrick Gaines Goode (Whig, OH-3)Samson Mason (Whig, OH-10)Calvary Morris (Whig, OH-6)Jeremiah Morrow (Whig, OH-4)Joseph Ridgway (Whig, OH-8)Joshua Reed Giddings (Whig, OH-16)Charles Naylor (Whig, PA-3)John Sergeant (Whig, PA-2)William Simonton (Whig, PA-10)James Cooper (Whig, PA-12)Joseph Leonard Tillinghast (Whig, RI-AL)Waddy Thompson Jr. (Whig, SC-6)William Blount Carter (Whig, TN-1)John Wesley Crockett (Whig, TN-12)Joseph Lanier Williams (Whig, TN-3)Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig, TN-8)Christopher Harris Williams (Whig, TN-13)John Bell (Whig, TN-7)William Bowen Campbell (Whig, TN-6)John Hill (Whig, VA-5)William Mason McCarty (Whig, VA-14)John Taliaferro (Whig, VA-10)Henry Alexander Wise (Whig, VA-8)John Minor Botts (Whig, VA-11)William Leftwich Goggin (Whig, VA-7)Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Whig, VA-9)Horace Everett (Whig, VT-3)Hiland Hall (Whig, VT-1)William Slade (Whig, VT-2)
157 new members · 152 departed · 58 served on both dates · women 0 → 0 · median age 45 → 44
26 state delegations changed
Show delegation changes
Alabama 0 D · 0 R · 5 other
Alabama 3 D · 0 R · 2 other
Arkansas 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
Arkansas 1 D · 0 R
Connecticut 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
Connecticut 0 D · 0 R · 6 other
Delaware 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
Delaware 1 D · 0 R
Iowa 0 D · 0 R
Iowa 1 D · 0 R
Illinois 0 D · 0 R · 3 other
Illinois 2 D · 0 R · 1 other
Indiana 0 D · 0 R · 7 other
Indiana 5 D · 0 R · 2 other
Kentucky 0 D · 0 R · 13 other
Kentucky 2 D · 0 R · 11 other
Louisiana 0 D · 0 R · 3 other
Louisiana 1 D · 0 R · 3 other
Massachusetts 0 D · 0 R · 12 other
Massachusetts 2 D · 0 R · 10 other
Maryland 0 D · 0 R · 7 other
Maryland 4 D · 0 R · 3 other
Maine 0 D · 0 R · 8 other
Maine 6 D · 0 R · 2 other
Michigan 1 D · 0 R · 1 other
Michigan 1 D · 0 R
Missouri 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
Missouri 1 D · 0 R
Mississippi 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
Mississippi 1 D · 0 R
North Carolina 0 D · 0 R · 13 other
North Carolina 8 D · 0 R · 5 other
New Hampshire 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
New Hampshire 1 D · 0 R
New Jersey 0 D · 0 R · 1 other
New Jersey 1 D · 0 R
New York 0 D · 0 R · 34 other
New York 15 D · 0 R · 18 other
Ohio 0 D · 0 R · 19 other
Ohio 11 D · 0 R · 8 other
Pennsylvania 0 D · 0 R · 25 other
Pennsylvania 17 D · 0 R · 8 other
South Carolina 0 D · 0 R · 10 other
South Carolina 8 D · 0 R · 1 other
Tennessee 0 D · 0 R · 13 other
Tennessee 6 D · 0 R · 7 other
Virginia 0 D · 0 R · 21 other
Virginia 12 D · 0 R · 9 other
Vermont 0 D · 0 R · 5 other
Vermont 2 D · 0 R · 3 other
Wisconsin 0 D · 0 R
Wisconsin 1 D · 0 R
Who joined and who left (157 in · 152 out)
James Dellet W
Alabama-5
David Hubbard D
Alabama-2
Edward Cross D
Arkansas-1
William Lucius Storrs W
Connecticut-2
John Hall Brockway W
Connecticut-6
Thomas Burr Osborne W
Connecticut-4
Joseph Trumbull W
Connecticut-1
Truman Smith W
Connecticut-5
Thomas Robinson Jr. D
Delaware-AL
Charles Downing
Florida-AL
Hines Holt W
Georgia-AL
John Todd Stuart W
Illinois-3
James Rariden W
Indiana-5
Thomas Smith D
Indiana-4
Simeon H. Anderson W
Kentucky-5
Richard Hawes W
Kentucky-10
John Pope W
Kentucky-7
Philip Triplett W
Kentucky-2
Willis Green W
Kentucky-6
Garrett Davis W
Kentucky-12
James Church Alvord W
Massachusetts-6
William Soden Hastings W
Massachusetts-9
Leverett Saltonstall W
Massachusetts-2
William Parmenter D
Massachusetts-4
Henry Williams D
Massachusetts-10
James Carroll D
Maryland-4
John Dennis W
Maryland-1
Thomas Davee D
Maine-8
Albert Smith D
Maine-2
Jacob Thompson D
Mississippi-AL
Charles Fisher D
North Carolina-10
John Hill D
North Carolina-9
Charles Biddle Shepard D
North Carolina-4
Kenneth Rayner W
North Carolina-1
Edward Stanly W
North Carolina-3
Ira Allen Eastman D
New Hampshire-AL
William Raworth Cooper D
New Jersey-AL
Judson Allen D
New York-20
Anson Brown W
New York-11
Edward Curtis W
New York-3
John Ely D
New York-8
John Fine D
New York-14
Charles Johnston W
New York-5
Nathaniel Jones D
New York-6
Gouverneur Kemble D
New York-4
Thomas Kempshall W
New York-28
Meredith Mallory D
New York-27
Charles F. Mitchell W
New York-33
Rufus Palen W
New York-7
Theron Rudd Strong D
New York-25
Peter Joseph Wagner W
New York-15
David P. Brewster D
New York-17
Andrew Wheeler Doig D
New York-16
Seth Merrill Gates W
New York-29
Christopher Morgan W
New York-24
Millard Fillmore W
New York-32
William Doan D
Ohio-5
John Hastings D
Ohio-17
George Sweeny D
Ohio-14
Isaac Parrish D
Ohio-11
William Beatty D
Pennsylvania-23
Richard Biddle AM
Pennsylvania-22
Edward Davies AM
Pennsylvania-4
John Davis D
Pennsylvania-6
Robert Hanna Hammond D
Pennsylvania-16
Isaac Leet D
Pennsylvania-21
Charles McClure D
Pennsylvania-13
George McCulloch D
Pennsylvania-14
Samuel Wells Morris D
Pennsylvania-17
Charles Naylor W
Pennsylvania-3
Lemuel Paynter D
Pennsylvania-1
David Petrikin D
Pennsylvania-15
Joseph Fornance D
Pennsylvania-5
James Gerry D
Pennsylvania-11
Thomas Henry AM
Pennsylvania-24
Enos Hook D
Pennsylvania-20
George May Keim D
Pennsylvania-9
Albert Gallatin Marchand D
Pennsylvania-19
Peter Newhard D
Pennsylvania-8
Charles Ogle AM
Pennsylvania-18
John Sergeant W
Pennsylvania-2
William Simonton W
Pennsylvania-10
James Cooper W
Pennsylvania-12
Sampson Hale Butler D
South Carolina-4
Thomas De Lage Sumter D
South Carolina-8
John Campbell D
South Carolina-3
Isaac Edward Holmes D
South Carolina-1
Robert Barnwell Rhett D
South Carolina-2
John Wesley Crockett W
Tennessee-12
Abraham McClellan D
Tennessee-2
Julius W. Blackwell D
Tennessee-4
Aaron Venable Brown D
Tennessee-10
Hopkins Lacy Turney D
Tennessee-5
Andrew Beirne D
Virginia-19
John Hill W
Virginia-5
Joel Holleman D
Virginia-1
Green Berry Samuels D
Virginia-16
Linn Banks D
Virginia-13
William Lucas D
Virginia-15
Lewis Steenrod D
Virginia-21
John Minor Botts W
Virginia-11
Isaac Fletcher D
Vermont-5
John Smith D
Vermont-4
James Duane Doty D
Wisconsin-AL
Joab Lawler J
Alabama-3
Archibald Yell J
Arkansas-1
Andrew Thompson Judson J
Connecticut-AL
John Jones Milligan W
Delaware-AL
Joseph M. White
Florida-AL
John Coffee J
Georgia-AL
William L. May J
Illinois-3
Amos Lane J
Indiana-4
Johnathan McCarty AJ
Indiana-5
Ratliff Boon J
Indiana-1
Chilton Allan W
Kentucky-10
Benjamin Hardin W
Kentucky-7
John Calhoon W
Kentucky-6
John Chambers W
Kentucky-12
James Harlan W
Kentucky-5
Richard French J
Kentucky-11
Henry Johnson W
Louisiana-1
Samuel Hoar W
Massachusetts-4
William Jackson AM
Massachusetts-9
George Grennell Jr. W
Massachusetts-6
Nathaniel Briggs Borden J
Massachusetts-10
John Nevett Steele AJ
Maryland-1
James Turner J
Maryland-3
Joseph Hall J
Maine-6
Gorham Parks J
Maine-8
David Dickson AJ
Mississippi-AL
Ebenezer Pettigrew W
North Carolina-3
William Biddle Shepard W
North Carolina-1
Abraham Rencher W
North Carolina-10
Jesse Speight J
North Carolina-4
Augustine Henry Shepperd W
North Carolina-9
Benning Moulton Bean J
New Hampshire-AL
William Chetwood W
New Jersey-AL
Samuel Barton J
New York-2
Abraham Bockee J
New York-5
John W. Brown J
New York-6
Graham Hurd Chapin J
New York-25
John Cramer J
New York-11
Valentine Efner J
New York-8
Dudley Farlin J
New York-13
Philo Case Fuller W
New York-30
Gideon Hard W
New York-33
Abner Hazeltine W
New York-31
Abel Huntington J
New York-1
Gideon Lee J
New York-3
Joshua Lee J
New York-27
Thomas Cutting Love W
New York-32
Abijah Mann Jr. J
New York-16
William Mason J
New York-21
Sherman Page J
New York-19
Joseph Reynolds J
New York-22
William Seymour J
New York-20
Nicholas Sickles J
New York-7
Daniel Wardwell J
New York-18
Timothy Childs W
New York-28
Aaron Ward J
New York-4
Elias Howell W
Ohio-12
Jonathan Sloane AM
Ohio-15
John Thomson J
Ohio-17
John Chaney J
Ohio-9
Joseph Biles Anthony J
Pennsylvania-16
Michael Woolston Ash J
Pennsylvania-3
John Banks AM
Pennsylvania-24
Andrew Beaumont J
Pennsylvania-15
George Chambers AM
Pennsylvania-12
William Clark AM
Pennsylvania-10
Harmar Denny AM
Pennsylvania-22
James Harper W
Pennsylvania-2
Samuel Smith Harrison J
Pennsylvania-23
Joseph Henderson J
Pennsylvania-14
William Hiester AM
Pennsylvania-4
John Laporte J
Pennsylvania-17
Jesse Miller J
Pennsylvania-13
Joel Barlow Sutherland J
Pennsylvania-1
Andrew Buchanan J
Pennsylvania-20
Jacob Fry Jr. J
Pennsylvania-5
Edward Burd Hubley J
Pennsylvania-8
John Klingensmith Jr. J
Pennsylvania-19
Henry Logan J
Pennsylvania-11
Mathias Morris W
Pennsylvania-6
Job Mann J
Pennsylvania-18
Dutee Jerauld Pearce AM
Rhode Island-AL
Robert Blair Campbell N
South Carolina-3
Warren Ransom Davis N
South Carolina-AL
William John Grayson N
South Carolina-2
Richard Irvine Manning J
South Carolina-8
Henry Laurens Pinckney N
South Carolina-1
Franklin Harper Elmore N
South Carolina-4
Samuel Bunch J
Tennessee-2
John B. Forester AJ
Tennessee-5
Adam Huntsman J
Tennessee-12
Luke Lea J
Tennessee-3
Balie Peyton J
Tennessee-6
Ebenezer J. Shields W
Tennessee-10
James Knox Polk J
Tennessee-9
George Loyall J
Virginia-1
Edward Lucas J
Virginia-15
John Young Mason J
Virginia-2
William McComas W
Virginia-19
John Roane J
Virginia-9
James Wood Bouldin J
Virginia-5
John Mercer Patton J
Virginia-13
John Robertson W
Virginia-11
Henry Fisk Janes AM
Vermont-5
Heman Allen W
Vermont-4
legislative/lawsLaws enacted
Complete lists of public laws start with the 93rd Congress (Jan 3, 1973). Earlier years show notable and landmark acts only.
0 laws recorded · 0 landmark · 0 notable
No laws in this window are flagged as notable.

Judicial3 files+181−1

judicial/supreme-courtThe Supreme Court
Bench by appointing party: 5 D · 2 JR → 7 D · 2 JR · every justice ↗
Philip Pendleton Barbour D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1836
John Catron D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1837
John McKinley D
appointed by Martin Van Buren · 1837
Peter Vivian Daniel D
appointed by Martin Van Buren · 1841
6 justices served on both dates
Joseph Story JR
appointed by James Madison · 1811
Smith Thompson JR
appointed by James Monroe · 1823
John McLean D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1829
Henry Baldwin D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1830
James Moore Wayne D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1835
Roger Brooke Taney D
appointed by Andrew Jackson · 1836
judicial/lower-courtsAppeals & district courts
Courts of appeals (active judges): →
District courts (active judges): 16 D · 14 JR · 2 F → 21 D · 10 JR · 2 F · 2 N(
Andrew Jackson D appointed 1 judge
1 Supreme Court
Martin Van Buren D appointed 12 judges
2 Supreme Court · 10 district
None (reassignment) N( appointed 2 judges
2 district
None (assignment) N( appointed 2 judges
2 district
D and R describe the party of the appointing president, not the judge. Active service ends when a judge takes senior status.
judicial/rulingsSupreme Court decisions
161 argued decisions · 0 landmark
Landmark means the Court overruled precedent, struck down a federal law, or the case is on a curated landmark list.

Fiscal2 files±0

fiscal/budgetThe federal budget
Fiscal year undefined → fiscal year undefined · inflation-adjusted with the GDP price index
fiscal/debtTotal public debt outstanding
$340,000
as of Jan 1, 1837
$5M
as of Jan 1, 1841

Constitution & Union1 file±0

constitution/amendmentsAmendments & statehood
12 → 12 amendments in force · 26 → 26 states
No amendments ratified and no states admitted. The last amendment was the 27th, in 1992.

Reverts1 file±0

revert/undoneWhat was undone
No executive orders revoked, no rules struck down by Congress, and no precedents overruled in this window (executive-order records begin in 1994).

Log1 file±0

logEverything in between
4 events
Martin Van Buren takes office · 1837-03-04John Catron — Associate Justice · 1837-03-08John McKinley — Associate Justice · 1837-09-25Peter Vivian Daniel — Associate Justice · 1841-03-031838183918401841
  1. presidentMartin Van Buren takes office
  2. justiceJohn Catron — Associate Justice
  3. justiceJohn McKinley — Associate Justice
  4. justicePeter Vivian Daniel — Associate Justice