First Confederate Congress

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The First Confederate Congress was the first regular session of the legislature of the Confederate States of America. Members of the First Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held in November 1861.

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[edit] Leadership

Speaker of the Confederate Congress

President pro tempore

[edit] Sessions

All sessions of the First Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capitol of Richmond, Virginia.

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

Missouri

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

[edit] House of Representatives

Sorted in districts of Election X: Originally member of the Provisional Confederate Congress

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

  • Willis Benson Machen
  • John Watkins Crockett, Jr.
  • Henry English Read
  • George Washington Ewing X
  • James Stone Chrisman
  • Theodore Legrand Burnett
  • Horatio Washington Bruce
  • George Baird Hodge X
  • Eli Metcalfe Bruce
  • James William Moore
  • Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr.
  • John Milton Elliott X

Louisiana

Mississippi

  • Jeremiah Watkins Clapp
  • Reuben Davis (resigned 1 March 1863 after third session)
    • William Dunbar Holder (took his seat on 21 January 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy)
  • Israel Victor Welch
  • Henry Cousins Chambers
  • Otho Robards Singleton
  • Ethelbert Barksdale
  • John Jones McRae

Missouri

  • William Mordecai Cooke, Sr. X (died 3 September 1863)
  • Thomas Alexander Harris X
  • Caspar Wistar Bell X
  • Aaron H. Conrow X
  • George Graham Vest X
  • Thomas W. Freeman X
  • Representative-elect Hyer never took his seat; the district was unrepresented for the entire First Congress;

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

William Bacon Wright

Virginia

Arizona Territory

  • Marcus H. MacWillie

Cherokee Nation

Choctaw Nation

  • Robert McDonald Jones

[edit] See also

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