Second Confederate Congress

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The Second Confederate Congress was the second and last regular session of the legislature of the Confederate States of America. Members of the Second Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held in November 1863 and only served one year of their two-year term since the American Civil War ended and the Confederacy was defeated.

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[edit] Sessions

All sessions of the Second Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capital of Richmond, Virginia.

[edit] Leadership

[edit] Senate

[edit] House

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

X: reelected

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: reelected

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

  • Willis Benson Machen X
  • George Washington Triplett
  • Henry English Read X
  • George Washington Ewing X
  • James Stone Chrisman X
  • Theodore Legrand Burnett X
  • Horatio Washington Bruce X
  • Humphrey Marshall
  • Eli Metcalfe Bruce X
  • James William Moore X
  • Benjamin Franklin Bradley
  • John Milton Elliott X

Louisiana

Mississippi

  • Jehu Amaziah Orr
  • John Tillman Lamkin
  • Israel Victor Welch X
  • Henry Cousins Chambers X
  • Otho Robards Singleton X
  • Ethelbert Barksdale X
  • William Dunbar Holder

Missouri

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

  • Joseph Brown Heiskell X
  • William Graham Swan X
  • Arthur St. Clair Colyar
  • John Porry Murray
  • Henry Stuart Foote X (expelled early 1865 from the congress, because he had went North on a mission of his own calling for peace and was called a traitor to the Confederacy)
  • Edwin Augustus Keebel
  • James McCallum
  • Thomas Menees X
  • John DeWitt Clinton Atkins X
  • John Vines Wright X
  • Michael Walsh Cluskey

Texas

Virginia

Arizona Territory

  • Marcus H. MacWillie X

Cherokee Nation

Creek and Seminole Nations

[edit] See also

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