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41 unusual facts about 26th United States Congress


Albert Gallup

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

Anson Brown

Brown was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1839, until his death in Ballston Spa, June 14, 1840.

Augustus C. Hand

Hand was elected as a Democrat to the 26th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.

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 McClure

He was elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Ramsey.

Daniel Bailey Ryall

Ryall was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841.

Daniel D. Barnard

Barnard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh as a U.S. Representative for the tenth district of New York from March 4, 1839 to March 4, 1843.

Daniel Sheffer

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

David P. Brewster

Elected as a Democrat, Brewster was United States Representative for the seventeenth district of New York during the Twenty-sixth as well as the Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1843.

Enos Hook

Hook was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served until April 18, 1841, when he resigned.

Francis Granger

He was, however, elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 24th Congress (March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837), and was elected as a Whig to the 26th and 27th Congresses (March 4, 1839 to March 5, 1841).

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 McCulloch

McCulloch was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William W. Potter.

George Whitfield Crabb

He was reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from September 4, 1838, to March 4, 1841.

Henry Marie Brackenridge

He was elected as a Whig to the 26th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Biddle and served from October 13, 1840, to March 3, 1841.

Henry Swearingen

He was reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from December 3, 1838, to March 4, 1841.

Henry Vail

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

Hines Holt

A decade later, he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1841; however, he was then elected as a Whig to the 26th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his cousin Walter T. Colquitt and served from February 1, 1841, to March 4, 1841.

James C. Alvord

Alvord was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1839, until his death in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1839, before the Congress assembled.

John T. Stuart

He was, however, elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1843), winning over Stephen A. Douglas in 1838.

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.

John Wesley Davis

He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana in the 24th, 26th, 28th and 29th Congresses and was Speaker of the U.S. House in the 29th 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.

Landaff Andrews

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth 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 Anthony Cooper

In 1838, he was elected as a Whig Representative from Georgia to the 26th United States Congress and served one term in that seat from March 4, 1839 until March 3, 1841, as he lost his bid for reeleciton in 1840.

Nicholas B. Doe

Doe was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Anson Brown.

Osmyn Baker

Baker was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James C. Alvord.

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).

Samuel Tredwell Sawyer

Sawyer was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress, moved to Norfolk, Virginia, and resumed the practice of law.

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.

Theron R. Strong

Strong was elected as a Democrat to the 26th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.

United States Senate elections, 1840

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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 Duhurst Merrick

In the Senate, Kent served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses), as a member of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).

William L. May

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.

William L. Storrs

Storrs was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 1839 until his resignation in June 1840.

William M. McCarty

Mccarty was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles F. Mercer and served from January 25, 1840, to March 4, 1841.

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 Sterrett Ramsey

Ramsey was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served until his death before the commencement of the Twenty-seventh Congress, to which he had been reelected.

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.