32nd United States Congress | |||
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Duration: March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1853 | |||
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Senate President: | Vacant | ||
Senate Pres. pro tem: | William R. King David R. Atchison |
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House Speaker: | Linn Boyd | ||
Members: | 62 Senators 233 Representatives 4 Non-voting members |
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Senate Majority: | Democratic | ||
House Majority: | Democratic | ||
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Sessions | |||
Special: March 4, 1851 – March 13, 1851 1st: December 1, 1851 – August 31, 1852 2nd: December 6, 1852 – March 4, 1853 |
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The Thirty-second 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 Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853, during the third and fourth years of Millard Fillmore's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1840. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
Affiliation | Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
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Total | ||||
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Democratic (D) |
Free Soil (FS) |
Whig (W) |
Other | Vacant | ||
End of previous Congress | 36 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 62 | 0 |
Begin | 33 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 60 | 3 |
End | 35 | 23 | 61 | 1 | ||
Final voting share | 55.7% | 6.6% | 37.7% | 0.0% | ||
Beginning of next Congress | 36 | 3 | 22 | 0 | 60 | 2 |
Affiliation | Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
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Democratic (D) |
Independent Democratic (ID) |
Free Soil (FS) |
States Rights (SR) |
Unionist (U) |
Whig (W) |
Independent Whig (IW) |
Other | Vacant | ||
End of previous Congress | 113 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 0 | 2 | 231 | 2 |
Begin | 128 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 233 | 0 |
End | 126 | 86 | 232 | 1 | ||||||
Final voting share | 54.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 4.3% | 37.1% | 0.4% | 0.0% | ||
Beginning of next Congress | 158 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 1 | 234 | 0 |
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
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 reelection in 1856; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1852; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1854.
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
State (class) |
Former senator | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's installation |
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Ohio (1) |
Vacant | Failure to elect | Benjamin Wade (W) | Elected March 15, 1851 |
California (1) |
Vacant | Failure to take seat | John B. Weller (D) | Seated January 30, 1852 |
Connecticut (1) |
Vacant | Failure to take seat | Isaac Toucey (D) | Seated May 12, 1852 |
Mississippi (1) |
Jefferson Davis (D) | Resigned September 23, 1851 to run for Governor of Mississippi | John J. McRae (D) | Appointed December 1, 1851 |
Mississippi (2) |
Henry S. Foote (D) | Resigned January 8, 1852 to become Governor of Mississippi | Walker Brooke (W) | Elected February 18, 1852 |
Mississippi (1) |
John J. McRae (D) | Successor elected March 17, 1852 | Stephen Adams (D) | Elected March 17, 1852 |
South Carolina (2) |
Robert Rhett (D) | Resigned May 7, 1852 | William F. De Saussure (D) | Appointed May 10, 1852 |
Georgia (2) |
John M. Berrien (W) | Resigned May 28, 1852 | Robert M. Charlton (D) | Elected May 31, 1852 |
Kentucky (3) |
Henry Clay (W) | Died June 29, 1852 | David Meriwether (D) | Appointed July 6, 1852 |
Indiana (3) |
James Whitcomb (D) | Died October 4, 1852 | Charles W. Cathcart (D) | Appointed December 6, 1852 |
Kentucky (3) |
David Meriwether (D) | Successor elected August 31, 1852 | Archibald Dixon (W) | Elected September 1, 1852 |
Alabama (3) |
William R. King (D) | Resigned December 20, 1852 due to ill health | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | Elected January 14, 1853 |
New Jersey (1) |
Robert F. Stockton (D) | Resigned January 1, 1853 | Vacant | Not filled this term |
Vermont (3) |
William Upham (W) | Died January 14, 1853 | Samuel S. Phelps (W) | Elected January 17, 1853 |
Indiana (3) |
Charles W. Cathcart (D) | Successor elected January 18, 1853 | John Pettit (D) | Elected January 18, 1853 |
District | Vacator | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's installation |
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Maine 4th | Charles Andrews (D) | Died April 30, 1852 | Isaac Reed (W) | Seated June 25, 1852 |
Virginia 15th | George W. Thompson (D) | Resigned July 30, 1852 after being appointed judge of the Circuit Court of Virginia | Sherrard Clemens (D) | Seated December 6, 1852 |
Kentucky 7th | Humphrey Marshall (W) | Resigned August 4, 1852 after being appointed Minister to China | William Preston (W) | Seated December 6, 1852 |
Massachusetts 2nd | Robert Rantoul, Jr. (D) | Died August 7, 1852 | Francis B. Fay (W) | Seated December 13, 1852 |
Massachusetts 9th | Orin Fowler (W) | Died September 3, 1852 | Edward P. Little (D) | Seated December 13, 1852 |
Massachusetts 4th | Benjamin Thompson (W) | Died September 24, 1852 | Lorenzo Sabine (W) | Seated December 13, 1852 |
New York 17th | Alexander H. Buell (D) | Died January 29, 1853 | Vacant | Not filled this term |
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