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61 unusual facts about 38th United States Congress


Abel Carter Wilder

Wilder was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-Eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865).

Alexander Hamilton Coffroth

During his term in the Thirty-eighth Congress, he supported the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, along with some other Democrats, such as Archibald McAllister.

Ambrose W. Clark

Clark was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865).

Anson Herrick

Herrick was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865).

Anthony A.C. Rogers

Rogers was elected to the 38th United States Congress, but was not allowed to take his seat, his State not having been readmitted.

Anthony L. Knapp

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from December 12, 1861, to March 3, 1865.

Augustus C. Baldwin

Baldwin was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives for the 38th Congress, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1865, becoming the first person to represent Michigan's 5th congressional district.

Augustus Frank

He was elected and served three terms as a Republican Congressman from New York, from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1865, in the 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses.

Benjamin Wood

Wood was elected as a Democrat to the 37th and 38th United States Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1865.) He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) in 1866 and 1867 and elected to the 47th United States Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883)

Brutus J. Clay

Clay was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865).

Charles Denison

Denison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses and served until his death in Wilkes-Barre.

Charles H. Winfield

Winfield was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1866 and resumed his legal practice.

Charles M. Harris

Harris was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865).

Charles Upson

In 1862 was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 2nd congressional district to the 38th United States Congress and was re-elected to the 39th and 40th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869.

Daniel Morris

Morris was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1867).

Dwight Townsend

Townsend was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry G. Stebbins and served from December 5, 1864, to March 3, 1865.

Ebenezer Dumont

Dumont was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and was reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1863–March 3, 1867).

Ebon C. Ingersoll

Ingersoll was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Owen Lovejoy.

Ephraim R. Eckley

Eckley was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1868.

Erastus Corning

In 1856, shortly after finishing the St. Mary's River project, Corning was elected as a Democrat to the 35th, 37th and 38th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859, and from March 4, 1861, to October 5, 1863, when he resigned.

Francis Kernan

He was elected as a Democrat to the 38th United States Congress, defeating the Republican boss Roscoe Conkling, and served from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1865.

Francis William Kellogg

Kellogg was elected from Michigan as a Republican to United States House of Representatives for the 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1865.

George H. Browne

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

George Helm Yeaman

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1865.

Gordon Newell Mott

Mott was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, to October 31, 1864, when the Nevada Territory became a state.

Green Clay Smith

In 1862, Smith was elected an Unconditional Unionist to the thirty-eighth congress, resigning from his military post on December 1, 1863.

Harrison G. O. Blake

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but instead, with the Civil War raging, entered the United States Army in 1864.

Henry G. Stebbins

Stebbins was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, until his resignation on October 24, 1864.

Henry Wells Tracy

Tracy was elected as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Hezekiah S. Bundy

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Hiram Walbridge

He was an unsuccessful Union candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

James Tracy Hale

Hale was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

John Augustus Griswold

Griswold was elected as a Democrat to the 38th and as a Republican to the 39th and 40th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1869.

John B. Alley

He served as chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses).

John B. Steele

Steele was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865).

John Blair Smith Todd

He was a delegate to the 37th and 38th United States Congress, between 1861 and 1865.

John F. Driggs

Driggs was elected as a Republican becoming the first person to represent Michigan's 6th congressional district to the 38th, 39th, and 40th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869.

John F. Kinney

Kinney was elected as the Territory of Utah's Democratic Delegate to the 38th Congress and served from March 4, 1863 until March 3, 1865.

He served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, twice as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah and one term as the Territory of Utah's Delegate in the House of Representatives of the 38th Congress.

John F. Starr

Starr was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1866.

John Ganson

Ganson was elected as a Democrat to the 38th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1865.

John L. N. Stratton

Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth.

John T. Stuart

Stuart was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1865), and served there while Lincoln was president.

John W. Longyear

Longyear was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 38th and 39th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1867.

José Manuel Gallegos

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth US Congress.

Joseph Segar

In the Thirty-eighth Congress (1863–1865), no Virginia representatives were seated.

Lucien Anderson

He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives 1855-1857 and was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865).

Martin Russell Thayer

He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, during which he served on the committee on the bankrupt law and was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Private Land Claims.

Martin Welker

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the 38th Congress.

Morton S. Wilkinson

He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1865, as a Republican from Minnesota, in the 36th, 37th and 38th congresses, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.

Orlando Kellogg

Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in Elizabethtown, New York, August 24, 1865.

Rufus P. Spalding

Spalding won the election and was sworn in as a member of the Thirty-Eight Congress.

Samuel W. Moulton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867).

Thomas Lawson Price

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress and an unsuccessful candidate in the 1864 Missouri gubernatorial election.

Thomas M. Edwards

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Unconditional Union Party

In their convention in Baltimore in 1866, the radicals pledged to the maintenance of the state constitution of 1864, "which expressly and emphatically prohibits both rebel suffrage and negro suffrage." Henry Winter Davis, a leading voice within the party's radicals, was elected to the 38th United States Congress as a candidate of the UCP.

Walter D. McIndoe

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses this time as the representative of Wisconsin's newly created 6th district serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1867.

Warren P. Noble

He was elected as a Democrat to both the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1865), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

William H. Randall

Randall was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1867).

William J. Allen

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865.

William M. Dunn

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.