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33 unusual facts about 20th United States Congress


20th Congress

20th United States Congress, the national legislature of the United States of America from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829.

Daniel D. Barnard

Elected as an Adams to the Twentieth Congress, Barnard served as U.S. Representative for the twenty-seventh district of New York from March 4, 1827 to March 4, 1829.

Daniel G. Garnsey

Garnsey was elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th and 20th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829.

Daniel H. Miller

Miller was elected as a Jackson Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses.

David Barker, Jr.

Elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress, Barker served as a United States Representative for New Hampshire from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829.

David Ellicott Evans

Evans was elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, until his resignation May 2, 1827, before the assembling of Congress.

David Woodcock

Woodcock was elected to the 20th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1829.

District of Columbia home rule

However, in 1829 with the new administration of President Andrew Jackson and the election of pro-Jackson majorities in each house of Congress, the federal government began intervening more in the city's local affairs.

Dudley Marvin

Marvin was elected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1829).

Edward Fenwick Tattnall

He was reelected to the 18th, 19th and 20th United States Congresses and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1827 before the start of the 20th Congress.

George Kremer

Kremer was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses.

Henry C. Martindale

Martindale was elected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the 18th, re-elected as an Adams man to the 19th and 20th, as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 21st, and as an Anti-Mason to the 23rd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1831, and from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1835.

Henry Markell

Markell was elected as an Adams man to the 19th and 20th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829.

Isaac Pierson

Pierson was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1831, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress.

James F. Randolph

Randolph was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Holcombe.

James L. Hodges

Hodges was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1833).

Jeromus Johnson

Johnson was elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th and 20th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829.

John Dean Dickinson

Dickinson was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1823.

John Flournoy Henry

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1827 to the Twentieth Congress.

John G. Stower

Stower was elected as a Jacksonian to the 20th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1829.

John Hallock, Jr.

Hallock was elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th and 20th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829.

John Sloane

Sloane was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1819 – March 4, 1829).

John Test

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress.

Jonas Earll, Jr.

Earll Jr. was elected as a Jacksonian to the 20th and 21st United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1831.

Michael Sprigg

Sprigg was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1831.

Philip Swenk Markley

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress.

Phineas L. Tracy

Tracy was elected to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David E. Evans.

Robert L. McHatton

He was reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congress and served from December 7, 1826, to March 3, 1829.

Samuel Butman

Butman left the state legislature to served in the 20th and 21st Congresses (March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1831) in the U.S. House of Representatives as a representative of Maine's seventh district.

Thomas Kittera

At the same election he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twentieth Congress.

Thomas Patrick Moore

Moore was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1829).

Tristam Burges

Burges was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1835).

William Singleton Young

He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, on September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress.