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44 unusual facts about 27th United States Congress


Alexander Barrow

There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds during the 27th Congress and of the Committee on the Militia during the 27th and 28th Congresses.

Almon Heath Read

Read was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Davis Dimock, Jr..

Andrew Beirne

Beirne was not a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and resumed his former business activities.

Archibald L. Linn

Linn was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843).

Barker Burnell

Burnell was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 15, 1843.

Benjamin S. Cowen

Cowen was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1843).

Charles A. Floyd

Floyd was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).

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.

David Bronson

He was elected a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Evans.

David Hubbard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh 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.

Davis Dimock, Jr.

Dimock was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served until his death in Montrose in 1842.

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 Whitfield Crabb

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Henry Washington Hilliard

He served as member of the state house of representatives 1836-1838, as member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1839, Whig presidential elector in 1840 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840.

Henry White Beeson

Beeson was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos Hook.

Herman D. Gould

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Isaac Dashiell Jones

Jones was elected as a Whig from Maryland's 1st congressional district to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843.

Isaac Leet

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

James Archibald Meriwether

In 1840, he was elected as a Whig Representative from Georgia to the 27th United States Congress and served one term from March 4, 1841 until March 3, 1843.

James McPherson Russell

Russell was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Black.

James Wray Williams

Williams was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1841, until his death on Prieshford farm, Deer Creek, Maryland, December 2, 1842.

John Cummins Edwards

John Edwards entered national politics in 1841 after being elected to the 27th United States Congress, serving one term until March, 1843.

John De Mott

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

John H. McHenry

He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

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 Thomson Mason, Jr.

Mason later served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1838 and 1839, and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843.

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.

Osmyn Baker

Baker was reelected to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from January 14, 1840, to March 3, 1845.

Pete Jarman

During the First World War, Jarman served overseas as second and first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry.

Roger Lawson Gamble

He was elected to the U.S. House again as a Whig to represent Georgia in the 27th U.S. Congress and served one term from March 4, 1841, until March 3, 1843 as his lost his reelection bid for a second term in that seat in 1842.

Samuel Lewis Hays

Hays was elected as a Democrat to the 27th United States Congress, serving from 1841 to 1843, and made an unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1842; however, he later served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850.

Samuel S. Bowne

Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress, Bowne served as United States Representative for the nineteenth district of New York from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843.

Stephen B. Leonard

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

United States Senate elections, 1840

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Victory Birdseye

Elected as a Whig to the 27th United States Congress, Birdseye held the office of U. S. Representative for the twenty-third district of New York from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843.

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 Henry Washington

He was elected as a Whig to the 27th United States Congress in 1840, and served a single term before declining re-election.

William M. Oliver

Elected as a Democrat to the 27th United States Congress, Oliver was United States Representative holding office from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843.

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.