The 14th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in the Old Brick Capitol in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817, during the seventh and eighth years of James Madison's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1810 United States census. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican majority.

Major events

November 1816: James Monroe defeated Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election.

According to abolitionist Jesse Torrey, "One of the members of the house of representatives (Mr. ADGATE,) related to me, while at Washington, the following fact: — "That during the last session of congress, (1815–16,) as several members were standing in the street, near the new capitol, a drove of manacled coloured people were passing by; and when just opposite one of them elevating his manacles as high as he could reach, commenced singing the favorite national song, 'Hail Columbia! happy land!' &c."

Major legislation

April 10, 1816: Establishment of the Second Bank of the United States April 27, 1816: Dallas tariff

Proposed, but not enacted March 3, 1817: Bonus Bill of 1817 (vetoed)

Treaties August 24, 1816: Treaty of St. Louis signed

States admitted and territories organized December 11, 1816: Indiana was admitted as the 19th state, March 3, 1817: Alabama Territory was created from a portion of the Mississippi Territory

Party summary The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

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

House of Representatives During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Indiana.

Leadership

Senate President: Vacant President pro tempore: John Gaillard (DR) of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815

House of Representatives Speaker: Henry Clay (DR) of Kentucky

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

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, requiring re-election in 1820; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1818.

Connecticut 1. Samuel W. Dana (F) 3. David Daggett (F)

Delaware 1. Outerbridge Horsey (F) 2. William H. Wells (F)

Georgia 2. William W. Bibb (DR), until November 9, 1816 George Troup (DR), from November 13, 1816 3. Charles Tait (DR)

Indiana 1. James Noble (DR), from December 11, 1816 3. Waller Taylor (DR), from December 11, 1816

Kentucky 2. William T. Barry (DR), until May 1, 1816 Martin D. Hardin (F), from November 13, 1816 3. Isham Talbot (DR)

Louisiana 2. James Brown (DR) 3. Eligius Fromentin (DR)

Maryland 1. Robert Goodloe Harper (F), January 1816 – December 1816 Alexander C. Hanson (F), from December 20, 1816 3. Robert Henry Goldsborough (F)

Massachusetts 1. Christopher Gore (F), until May 30, 1816 Eli P. Ashmun (F), from June 12, 1816 2. Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR)

New Hampshire 2. Thomas W. Thompson (F) 3. Jeremiah Mason (F)

New Jersey 1. James J. Wilson (DR) 2. John Condit (DR)

New York 1. Nathan Sanford (DR) 3. Rufus King (F)

North Carolina 2. James Turner (DR), until November 21, 1816 Montfort Stokes (DR), from December 4, 1816 3. Francis Locke Jr. (DR), until December 5, 1815 Nathaniel Macon (DR), from December 13, 1815

Ohio 1. Benjamin Ruggles (DR) 3. Jeremiah Morrow (DR)

Pennsylvania 1. Jonathan Roberts (DR) 3. Abner Lacock (DR)

Rhode Island 1. William Hunter (F) 2. Jeremiah B. Howell (DR)

South Carolina 2. John Taylor (DR), until November 1816 William Smith (DR), from December 4, 1816 3. John Gaillard (DR)

Tennessee 1. George W. Campbell (DR), from October 10, 1815 2. Jesse Wharton (DR), until October 10, 1815 John Williams (DR), from October 10, 1815

Vermont 1. Isaac Tichenor (F) 3. Dudley Chase (DR)

Virginia 1. James Barbour (DR) 2. Armistead Thomson Mason (DR), from January 3, 1816

House of Representatives

Connecticut All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Epaphroditus Champion (F) . John Davenport (F) . Lyman Law (F) . Jonathan O. Moseley (F) . Timothy Pitkin (F) . Lewis B. Sturges (F) . Benjamin Tallmadge (F)

Delaware Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Thomas Clayton (F) . Thomas Cooper (F)

Georgia All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Alfred Cuthbert (DR), until November 9, 1816 Zadock Cook (DR), from December 2, 1816 . John Forsyth (DR) . Bolling Hall (DR) . Wilson Lumpkin (DR) . Thomas Telfair (DR) . Richard Henry Wilde (DR)

Indiana . William Hendricks (DR), from December 11, 1816 (newly admitted state)

Kentucky . James Clark (DR), until August 1816 Thomas Fletcher (DR), from December 2, 1816 . Henry Clay (DR), from October 30, 1815 . Richard Mentor Johnson (DR) . Joseph Desha (DR) . Alney McLean (DR) . Solomon P. Sharp (DR) . Samuel McKee (DR) . Stephen Ormsby (DR) . Micah Taul (DR) . Benjamin Hardin (DR)

Louisiana . Thomas B. Robertson (DR)

Maryland The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives. . Philip Stuart (F) . John C. Herbert (F) . Alexander C. Hanson (F), until ????, 1816 George Peter (F), from October 7, 1816 . George Baer Jr. (F) . Nicholas R. Moore (DR), until ????, 1815 Samuel Smith (DR), from February 4, 1816 . William Pinkney (DR), until April 18, 1816 Peter Little (DR), from December 2, 1816 . Stevenson Archer (DR) . Robert Wright (DR) . Charles Goldsborough (F)

Massachusetts . Artemas Ward Jr. (F) . Timothy Pickering (F) . Jeremiah Nelson (F) . Asahel Stearns (F) . Elijah H. Mills (F) . Samuel Taggart (F) . John W. Hulbert (F) . William Baylies (F) . John Reed Jr. (F) . Laban Wheaton (F) . Elijah Brigham (F), until February 22, 1816 Benjamin Adams (F), from December 2, 1816 . Solomon Strong (F) . Nathaniel Ruggles (F) . Cyrus King (F) . George Bradbury (F) . Benjamin Brown (F) . James Carr (F) . Thomas Rice (F) . Samuel S. Conner (DR) . Albion K. Parris (DR)

New Hampshire All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Charles H. Atherton (F) . Bradbury Cilley (F) . William Hale (F) . Roger Vose (F) . Daniel Webster (F) . Jeduthun Wilcox (F)

New Jersey All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Ezra Baker (DR) . Ephraim Bateman (DR) . Benjamin Bennet (DR) . Lewis Condict (DR) . Henry Southard (DR) . Thomas Ward (DR)

New York There were six plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, 12th, 15th, 20th & 21st, each had two representatives. . Henry Crocheron (DR) . George Townsend (DR) . William Irving (DR) . Peter H. Wendover (DR) . Jonathan Ward (DR) . Abraham H. Schenck (DR) . Thomas P. Grosvenor (F) . Jonathan Fisk (DR), until March ????, 1815 James W. Wilkin (DR), from December 4, 1815 . Samuel Betts (DR) . Erastus Root (DR), from December 26, 1815 . John Lovett (F) . Hosea Moffitt (F) . John W. Taylor (DR) . Asa Adgate (DR), from December 7, 1815 . John Savage (DR) . John B. Yates (DR) . Daniel Cady (F) . James Birdsall (DR) . Jabez Delano Hammond (DR) . Thomas R. Gold (F) . Westel Willoughby Jr. (DR), from December 13, 1815 . Moss Kent (F) . Victory Birdseye (DR) . Oliver C. Comstock (DR) . Enos T. Throop (DR), until June 4, 1816 Daniel Avery (DR), from December 3, 1816 . Micah Brooks (DR), . Peter Buell Porter (DR), until January 23, 1816 Archibald S. Clarke (DR), from December 2, 1816

North Carolina . William H. Murfree (DR) . Joseph Hunter Bryan (DR) . James West Clark (DR) . William Gaston (F) . William R. King (DR), until November 4, 1816 Charles Hooks (DR), from December 2, 1816 . Nathaniel Macon (DR), until December 13, 1815 Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (DR), from February 7, 1816 . John Culpepper (F) . Richard Stanford (DR), until April 9, 1816 Samuel Dickens (DR), from December 2, 1816 . Bartlett Yancey (DR) . William Carter Love (DR) . Daniel Munroe Forney (DR) . Israel Pickens (DR) . Lewis Williams (DR)

Ohio . John McLean (DR), until ????, 1816 William Henry Harrison (DR), from December 2, 1816 . John Alexander (DR) . William Creighton Jr. (DR) . James Caldwell (DR) . James Kilbourne (DR) . David Clendenin (DR)

Pennsylvania There were six plural districts, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th & 10th had two representatives each, the 1st had four representatives. . Joseph Hopkinson (F) . William Milnor (F) . Thomas Smith (F) . Jonathan Williams (DR), until May 16, 1815 John Sergeant (F), from December 6, 1815 . William Darlington (DR) . John Hahn (DR) . James M. Wallace (DR), from October 10, 1815 . John Whiteside (DR) . Hugh Glasgow (DR) . William Crawford (DR) . William Maclay (DR) . Samuel D. Ingham (DR) . John Ross (DR) . Joseph Hiester (DR) . William Piper (DR) . David Bard (DR), until March 12, 1815 Thomas Burnside (DR), from December 11, 1815, until April ????, 1816 William Plunkett Maclay (DR), from December 3, 1816 . Jared Irwin (DR) . William Wilson (DR) . William Findley (DR) . Aaron Lyle (DR) . Isaac Griffin (DR) . John Woods (F) . Thomas Wilson (DR)

Rhode Island Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . John L. Boss Jr. (F) . James B. Mason (F)

South Carolina . Henry Middleton (DR) . William Lowndes (DR) . Benjamin Huger (F) . John J. Chappell (DR) . William Woodward (DR) . John C. Calhoun (DR) . John Taylor (DR) . Thomas Moore (DR) . William Mayrant (DR), until October 21, 1816 Stephen Decatur Miller (DR), from January 2, 1817

Tennessee . Samuel Powell (DR) . John Sevier (DR), until September 24, 1815 William Grainger Blount (DR), from January 8, 1816 . Isaac Thomas (DR) . Bennett H. Henderson (DR) . Newton Cannon (DR) . James B. Reynolds (DR)

Vermont All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. . Daniel Chipman (F), until May 5, 1816 . Luther Jewett (F) . Chauncey Langdon (F) . Asa Lyon (F) . Charles Marsh (F) . John Noyes (F)

Virginia . John G. Jackson (DR) . Magnus Tate (F) . Henry St. George Tucker (DR) . William McCoy (DR) . James Breckinridge (F) . Daniel Sheffey (F) . Ballard Smith (DR) . Joseph Lewis Jr. (F) . John P. Hungerford (DR) . Aylett Hawes (DR) . Philip P. Barbour (DR) . William H. Roane (DR) . Burwell Bassett (DR) . William A. Burwell (DR) . Matthew Clay (DR), until May 27, 1815 John Kerr (DR), from December 5, 1815 . John Randolph (DR) . James Pleasants (DR) . Thomas Gholson Jr. (DR), until July 4, 1816 Thomas M. Nelson (DR), from December 6, 1816 . Peterson Goodwyn (DR) . James Johnson (DR) . Thomas Newton Jr. (DR) . Hugh Nelson (DR) . John Clopton (DR), until September 11, 1816 John Tyler (DR), from December 17, 1816

Non-voting members . Benjamin Stephenson Nathaniel Pope . Jonathan Jennings, until December 11, 1816 . William Lattimore . Rufus Easton, until August 5, 1816 John Scott, August 6, 1816 – January 13, 1817

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

Senate

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