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44 unusual facts about 25th United States Congress


Aaron Vanderpoel

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Adam W. Snyder

Adam Wilson Snyder was eventually elected as a Democrat to the 25th U.S. Congress and served from March 4, 1837–March 3, 1839.

Amasa J. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839, as the representative from Delaware and Broome counties.

Andrew DeWitt Bruyn

Bruyn was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until his death in Ithaca on July 27, 1838.

Andrew W. Loomis

Loomis was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until October 20, 1837, when he resigned.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Charles F. Mitchell

Charles Franklin Mitchell (February 18, 1806 – September 27, 1865) was a U.S. Representative from New York in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses.

Charles Naylor

He held several local offices, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Elisha Haley

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1839).

Francis Jacob Harper

Harper was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress, but died in Frankford in 1837, before the assembling of Congress.

George Grennell, Jr.

Grennell was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-six Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1839).

George H. Dunn

From March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839, Dunn served on the Twenty-fifth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.

George May Keim

Keim was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A. P. Muhlenberg.

George Welshman Owens

Owens was elected as a Jacksonian Representative from Georgia to the 24th United States Congress and won reelection to the 25th Congress, serving from March 4, 1835, until March 3, 1839.

George Whitfield Crabb

Crabb was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joab Lawler.

Harvey Putnam

He was elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Patterson, holding office from November 7, 1838, to March 3, 1839.

Henry A. Foster

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1839.

Henry Swearingen

Swearingen was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Kilgore.

Hiram Gray

Gray was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Hiram P. Hunt

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Hopkins Holsey

Holsey switched political parties to win reelection to his seat as a Democrat in the 25th Congress.

Isaac H. Bronson

Bronson was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839), where he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Twenty-fifth Congress.

James Alexander, Jr.

Alexander was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839.

Jesse Franklin Cleveland

Cleveland was reelected to the 25th Congress and his congressional service spanned from October 5, 1835, until March 3, 1839.

Joab Lawler

He was reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1835, until his death in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 1838.

John T. Stuart

Stuart was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress.

John Tolley Hood Worthington

Worthington was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses, where he served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841.

Jonathan Cilley

Cilley died in office as a sacrifice to the bitter political climate that surrounded the Twenty-fifth Congress.

Joseph Fitz Randolph

Randolph was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843.

Joseph Weeks

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839).

Julius Caesar Alford

Alford served the remainder of that term from January 2, 1837, to March 3, 1837, and lost his reelection bid in 1836 to the 25th Congress.

Leverett Saltonstall I

Elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Phillips, and then reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from December 5, 1838, to March 3, 1843.

Mark H. Sibley

He was elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Richard P. Marvin

Marvin was elected as a Whig to the 25th and 26th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841).

Samson Mason

He served as chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-fifth Congress).

Samuel Tredwell Sawyer

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839) and was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.

Samuel Wells Morris

Morris was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving from September 4, 1837, till March 3, 1841.

Thomas J. Word

Word successfully contested the election of Samuel J. Gholson to the 25th Congress, and the election was set aside by the House of Representatives.

Thomas T. Whittlesey

He was reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from April 29, 1836, to March 3, 1839.

Waddy Thompson, Jr.

He was reelected as a Whig to the 25th and 26th Congresses and served from September 10, 1835, to March 3, 1841.

William Herod

He was reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from January 25, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

William L. May

He was reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from December 1, 1834 to March 3, 1839.

William Soden Hastings

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1837, until his death in 1842.

William Wilson Potter

Potter was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses and served until his death, before the assembling of the Twenty-sixth Congress, in Bellefonte.