14th United States Congress

• November 1816: James Monroe defeated Rufus King in the U.S. presidential election. • According to abolitionist Jesse Torrey, "One of the members of the house of representatives (Mr. ADGATE,) related to me, while at Washington, the following fact: — "That during the last session of congress, (1815–16,) as several members were standing in the street, near the new capitol, a drove of manacled coloured people were passing by; and when just opposite one of them elevating his manacles as high as he could reach, commenced singing the favorite national song, '''Hail Columbia! happy land!''' &c." ==Major legislation==

• April 10, 1816: Establishment of the Second Bank of the United States • April 27, 1816: Dallas tariff Proposed, but not enacted • March 3, 1817: Bonus Bill of 1817 (vetoed) == Treaties ==

• August 24, 1816: Treaty of St. Louis signed == States admitted and territories organized ==

• December 11, 1816: Indiana was admitted as the 19th state, • March 3, 1817: Alabama Territory was created from a portion of the Mississippi Territory ==Party summary==

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section. Senate During this congress, two Senate seats were added for the new state of Indiana. House of Representatives During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Indiana. ==Leadership==

Senate • President: Vacant • President pro tempore: John Gaillard (DR) of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815 House of Representatives • Speaker: Henry Clay (DR) of Kentucky == Members ==

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class and representatives are listed by district. :Skip to House of Representatives, below Senate Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1820; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1818. ==== Connecticut ==== : 1. Samuel W. Dana (F) : 3. David Daggett (F) ==== Delaware ==== : 1. Outerbridge Horsey (F) : 2. William H. Wells (F) ==== Georgia ==== : 2. William W. Bibb (DR), until November 9, 1816 :: George Troup (DR), from November 13, 1816 : 3. Charles Tait (DR) ==== Indiana ==== : 1. James Noble (DR), from December 11, 1816 : 3. Waller Taylor (DR), from December 11, 1816 ==== Kentucky ==== : 2. William T. Barry (DR), until May 1, 1816 :: Martin D. Hardin (F), from November 13, 1816 : 3. Isham Talbot (DR) ==== Louisiana ==== : 2. James Brown (DR) : 3. Eligius Fromentin (DR) ==== Maryland ==== : 1. Robert Goodloe Harper (F), January 1816 – December 1816 :: Alexander C. Hanson (F), from December 20, 1816 : 3. Robert H. Goldsborough (F) ==== Massachusetts ==== : 1. Christopher Gore (F), until May 30, 1816 :: Eli P. Ashmun (F), from June 12, 1816 : 2. Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR) ==== New Hampshire ==== : 2. Thomas W. Thompson (F) : 3. Jeremiah Mason (F) ==== New Jersey ==== : 1. James J. Wilson (DR) : 2. John Condit (DR) ==== New York ==== : 1. Nathan Sanford (DR) : 3. Rufus King (F) ==== North Carolina ==== : 2. James Turner (DR), until November 21, 1816 :: Montfort Stokes (DR), from December 4, 1816 : 3. Francis Locke Jr. (DR), until December 5, 1815 :: Nathaniel Macon (DR), from December 13, 1815 ==== Ohio ==== : 1. Benjamin Ruggles (DR) : 3. Jeremiah Morrow (DR) ==== Pennsylvania ==== : 1. Jonathan Roberts (DR) : 3. Abner Lacock (DR) ==== Rhode Island ==== : 1. William Hunter (F) : 2. Jeremiah B. Howell (DR) ==== South Carolina ==== : 2. John Taylor (DR), until November 1816 :: William Smith (DR), from December 4, 1816 : 3. John Gaillard (DR) ==== Tennessee ==== : 1. George W. Campbell (DR), from October 10, 1815 : 2. Jesse Wharton (DR), until October 10, 1815 :: John Williams (DR), from October 10, 1815 ==== Vermont ==== : 1. Isaac Tichenor (F) : 3. Dudley Chase (DR) ==== Virginia ==== : 1. James Barbour (DR) : 2. Armistead T. Mason (DR), from January 3, 1816 House of Representatives ==== Connecticut ==== All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Epaphroditus Champion (F) : . John Davenport (F) : . Lyman Law (F) : . Jonathan O. Moseley (F) : . Timothy Pitkin (F) : . Lewis B. Sturges (F) : . Benjamin Tallmadge (F) ==== Delaware ==== Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Thomas Clayton (F) : . Thomas Cooper (F) ==== Georgia ==== All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Alfred Cuthbert (DR), until November 9, 1816 :: Zadock Cook (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . John Forsyth (DR) : . Bolling Hall (DR) : . Wilson Lumpkin (DR) : . Thomas Telfair (DR) : . Richard Henry Wilde (DR) ==== Indiana ==== : . William Hendricks (DR), from December 11, 1816 (newly admitted state) ==== Kentucky ==== : . James Clark (DR), until August 1816 :: Thomas Fletcher (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . Henry Clay (DR), from October 30, 1815 : . Richard M. Johnson (DR) : . Joseph Desha (DR) : . Alney McLean (DR) : . Solomon P. Sharp (DR) : . Samuel McKee (DR) : . Stephen Ormsby (DR) : . Micah Taul (DR) : . Benjamin Hardin (DR) ==== Louisiana ==== : . Thomas B. Robertson (DR) ==== Maryland ==== The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives. : . Philip Stuart (F) : . John C. Herbert (F) : . Alexander C. Hanson (F), until ????, 1816 :: George Peter (F), from October 7, 1816 : . George Baer Jr. (F) : . Nicholas R. Moore (DR), until ????, 1815 :: Samuel Smith (DR), from February 4, 1816 : . William Pinkney (DR), until April 18, 1816 :: Peter Little (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . Stevenson Archer (DR) : . Robert Wright (DR) : . Charles Goldsborough (F) ==== Massachusetts ==== : . Artemas Ward Jr. (F) : . Timothy Pickering (F) : . Jeremiah Nelson (F) : . Asahel Stearns (F) : . Elijah H. Mills (F) : . Samuel Taggart (F) : . John W. Hulbert (F) : . William Baylies (F) : . John Reed Jr. (F) : . Laban Wheaton (F) : . Elijah Brigham (F), until February 22, 1816 :: Benjamin Adams (F), from December 2, 1816 : . Solomon Strong (F) : . Nathaniel Ruggles (F) : . Cyrus King (F) : . George Bradbury (F) : . Benjamin Brown (F) : . James Carr (F) : . Thomas Rice (F) : . Samuel S. Conner (DR) : . Albion K. Parris (DR) ==== New Hampshire ==== All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Charles H. Atherton (F) : . Bradbury Cilley (F) : . William Hale (F) : . Roger Vose (F) : . Daniel Webster (F) : . Jeduthun Wilcox (F) ==== New Jersey ==== All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Ezra Baker (DR) : . Ephraim Bateman (DR) : . Benjamin Bennet (DR) : . Lewis Condict (DR) : . Henry Southard (DR) : . Thomas Ward (DR) ==== New York ==== There were six plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, 12th, 15th, 20th & 21st, each had two representatives. : . Henry Crocheron (DR) : . George Townsend (DR) : . William Irving (DR) : . Peter H. Wendover (DR) : . Jonathan Ward (DR) : . Abraham H. Schenck (DR) : . Thomas P. Grosvenor (F) : . Jonathan Fisk (DR), until March ????, 1815 :: James W. Wilkin (DR), from December 4, 1815 : . Samuel Betts (DR) : . Erastus Root (DR), from December 26, 1815 : . John Lovett (F) : . Hosea Moffitt (F) : . John W. Taylor (DR) : . Asa Adgate (DR), from December 7, 1815 : . John Savage (DR) : . John B. Yates (DR) : . Daniel Cady (F) : . James Birdsall (DR) : . Jabez D. Hammond (DR) : . Thomas R. Gold (F) : . Westel Willoughby Jr. (DR), from December 13, 1815 : . Moss Kent (F) : . Victory Birdseye (DR) : . Oliver C. Comstock (DR) : . Enos T. Throop (DR), until June 4, 1816 :: Daniel Avery (DR), from December 3, 1816 : . Micah Brooks (DR), : . Peter B. Porter (DR), until January 23, 1816 :: Archibald S. Clarke (DR), from December 2, 1816 ==== North Carolina ==== : . William H. Murfree (DR) : . Joseph H. Bryan (DR) : . James W. Clark (DR) : . William Gaston (F) : . William R. King (DR), until November 4, 1816 :: Charles Hooks (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . Nathaniel Macon (DR), until December 13, 1815 :: Weldon N. Edwards (DR), from February 7, 1816 : . John Culpepper (F) : . Richard Stanford (DR), until April 9, 1816 :: Samuel Dickens (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . Bartlett Yancey (DR) : . William C. Love (DR) : . Daniel M. Forney (DR) : . Israel Pickens (DR) : . Lewis Williams (DR) ==== Ohio ==== : . John McLean (DR), until ????, 1816 :: William Henry Harrison (DR), from December 2, 1816 : . John Alexander (DR) : . William Creighton Jr. (DR) : . James Caldwell (DR) : . James Kilbourne (DR) : . David Clendenin (DR) ==== Pennsylvania ==== There were six plural districts, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th & 10th had two representatives each, the 1st had four representatives. : . Joseph Hopkinson (F) : . William Milnor (F) : . Thomas Smith (F) : . Jonathan Williams (DR), until May 16, 1815 :: John Sergeant (F), from December 6, 1815 : . William Darlington (DR) : . John Hahn (DR) : . James M. Wallace (DR), from October 10, 1815 : . John Whiteside (DR) : . Hugh Glasgow (DR) : . William Crawford (DR) : . William Maclay (DR) : . Samuel D. Ingham (DR) : . John Ross (DR) : . Joseph Hiester (DR) : . William Piper (DR) : . David Bard (DR), until March 12, 1815 :: Thomas Burnside (DR), from December 11, 1815, until April ????, 1816 :: William P. Maclay (DR), from December 3, 1816 : . Jared Irwin (DR) : . William Wilson (DR) : . William Findley (DR) : . Aaron Lyle (DR) : . Isaac Griffin (DR) : . John Woods (F) : . Thomas Wilson (DR) ==== Rhode Island ==== Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . John L. Boss Jr. (F) : . James B. Mason (F) ==== South Carolina ==== : . Henry Middleton (DR) : . William Lowndes (DR) : . Benjamin Huger (F) : . John J. Chappell (DR) : . William Woodward (DR) : . John C. Calhoun (DR) : . John Taylor (DR) : . Thomas Moore (DR) : . William Mayrant (DR), until October 21, 1816 :: Stephen D. Miller (DR), from January 2, 1817 ==== Tennessee ==== : . Samuel Powell (DR) : . John Sevier (DR), until September 24, 1815 :: William G. Blount (DR), from January 8, 1816 : . Isaac Thomas (DR) : . Bennett H. Henderson (DR) : . Newton Cannon (DR) : . James B. Reynolds (DR) ==== Vermont ==== All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. : . Daniel Chipman (F), until May 5, 1816 : . Luther Jewett (F) : . Chauncey Langdon (F) : . Asa Lyon (F) : . Charles Marsh (F) : . John Noyes (F) ==== Virginia ==== : . John G. Jackson (DR) : . Magnus Tate (F) : . Henry St. George Tucker (DR) : . William McCoy (DR) : . James Breckinridge (F) : . Daniel Sheffey (F) : . Ballard Smith (DR) : . Joseph Lewis Jr. (F) : . John P. Hungerford (DR) : . Aylett Hawes (DR) : . Philip P. Barbour (DR) : . William H. Roane (DR) : . Burwell Bassett (DR) : . William A. Burwell (DR) : . Matthew Clay (DR), until May 27, 1815 :: John Kerr (DR), from December 5, 1815 : . John Randolph (DR) : . James Pleasants (DR) : . Thomas Gholson Jr. (DR), until July 4, 1816 :: Thomas M. Nelson (DR), from December 6, 1816 : . Peterson Goodwyn (DR) : . James Johnson (DR) : . Thomas Newton Jr. (DR) : . Hugh Nelson (DR) : . John Clopton (DR), until September 11, 1816 :: John Tyler (DR), from December 17, 1816 Non-voting members : . Benjamin Stephenson :: Nathaniel Pope : . Jonathan Jennings, until December 11, 1816 : . William Lattimore : . Rufus Easton, until August 5, 1816 :: John Scott, August 6, 1816 – January 13, 1817 ==Changes in membership==

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress. Senate House of Representatives ==Committees==

Lists of committees and their party leaders. Senate • Attorney General's Office (Select) • Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Abner Lacock) • Claims (Chairman: Jonathan Roberts) • Commerce and Manufactures (Chairman: William Hunter) • Compensation of Members of Congress (Select) • District of Columbia (Chairman: Armistead Mason) • Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Eligius Fromentin) • Finance (Select) • Indiana Admission to the Union (Select) • Judiciary (Chairman: Dudley Chase) • Military Affairs (Chairman: John Williams) • Militia (Chairman: Joseph Varnum) • Memorial of the Mississippi Territory (Chairman: N/A) • National University (Chairman: N/A) • Naval Affairs (Chairman: Charles Tait) • Pensions (Chairman: Jeremiah Howell) • Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: James J. Wilson) • Public Lands (Chairman: Jeremiah Morrow) • Slave Trade (Select) • Weights and Measures (Select) • Whole House of Representatives • Accounts (Chairman: John McLean then Peter Little) • Assent of Congress to an Act of the Virginia Legislature (Select) • Attorney General's Office (Select) • Banks of the District of Columbia (Select) • Berkshire Association (Select) • Bible Society of Philadelphia (Select) • Bonus of the National Banks (Select) • Bounty Lands Communication (Select) • Claims (Chairman: Bartlett Yancey) • Commerce and Manufactures (Chairman: Thomas Newton Jr.) • District of Columbia (Chairman: Henry S. Tucker) • Elections (Chairman: John W. Taylor) • Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Stevenson Archer) • Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Newton Cannon) • Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John B. Yates) • Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Samuel Smith) • Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Erastus Root) • Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Lewis Condict) • Judiciary (Chairman: Hugh Nelson) • Pensions and Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: John J. Chappell) • Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Samuel D. Ingham) • Private Land Claims (Chairman: Solomon P. Sharp) • Public Expenditures (Chairman: William H. Murfree then Israel Pickens) • Public Lands (Chairman: Thomas B. Robertson) • Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Lewis Condict) • Rules (Select) • Standards of Official Conduct • Ways and Means (Chairman: William Lowndes) • Whole Joint committees • Enrolled Bills == Employees ==

=== Legislative branch agency directors === • Architect of the Capitol: Benjamin Latrobe, from April 6, 1815 • Librarian of Congress: George Watterston Senate • Chaplain: Jesse Lee (Methodist), until December 8, 1815 • John Glendie (Presbyterian), elected December 8, 1815 • Sereno Edwards Dwight, (Congregationalist) elected December 16, 1816 • Secretary: Charles Cutts • Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly House of Representatives • Chaplain: Obadiah B. Brown (Baptist), until December 7, 1815 • Spencer H. Cone (Baptist), December 7, 1815 – December 2, 1816 • Burgiss Allison (Baptist), elected December 2, 1816 • Clerk: Thomas Dougherty • Doorkeeper: Thomas Claxton • Reading Clerks: • Sergeant at Arms: Thomas Dunn == See also ==