CHAPTER LIV.

ILLINOIS IN CONGRESS.

Delegates in Congress from 1811 to 1818-Representatives from 1818 to 1885Senators from 1818 to 1889.

NOTE-d, Democrat; w, Whig; r, Republican; i, Independent; g, Greenback.

From Lanman's Biographical Annals and the Congressional Directory we have compiled an authentic list of the Delegates and Representatives and Senators in Congress. from the Territory and State, beginning with the Twelfth Congress, which convened November 4, 1811, and closing with the Fiftieth, which terminates March 3, 1889:

DELEGATES.

Shadrach Bond, (d) of Kaskaskia, was the first Delegate; he served in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses; October 3, 1814, he was appointed Receiver of Public Moneys at Kaskaskia.

Benjamin Stephenson, (d) of Edwardsville, succeeded Bond, and served until 1816, when he was appointed Receiver of Public Moneys at Edwardsville.

Nathaniel Pope, (d) succeeded Stephenson, serving until

1818.

REPRESENTATIVES.

John McLean, (d) of Shawneetown, was elected Representative in 1818, and served one term.

Daniel P. Cook, (d) of Kaskaskia, represented the State from 1820 to 1827.

Joseph Duncan, (d) of Jacksonville, represented the State from 1827 to 1834, when he was elected Governor. In the meantime the census of 1830 had increased the representation from one to three, and under this apportionment he then represented the third district.

Charles Slade, (d) of Belleville, represented the first district in 1833; he died in July of the same year.

John Reynolds, (d) of Belleville, succeeded Slade, and represented the district until 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843.

Adam W. Snyder, (d) of Belleville, represented the first district from 1837 to 1839.

Zadok Casey, (d) of Mt. Vernon, represented the second district from 1833 to 1843.

William L. May, (d) of Springfield, represented the third district, as the successor of Duncan, from 1834 to 1839.

John T. Stuart, (w) of Springfield, represented the third district from 1839 to 1843, and the eighth from 1863 to 1865.

The census of 1840 increased the representation from three to seven.

Robert Smith, (d) of Alton, represented the first district from 1843 to 1849, and the eighth from 1857 to 1859.

* William H. Bissell, (d) of Belleville, represented the first district from 1849 to 1853, and the eighth from 1853 to 1855.

John A. McClernand, (d) of Shawneetown, represented the second district from 1843 to 1851, and the sixth (Springfield), from 1859 to 1861, when he resigned to accept the commission of Brigadier-General in the Union army.

Willis Allen, (d) of Marion, represented the second district from 1851 to 1853, and the ninth from 1853 to 1855. Orlando B. Ficklin, (d) of Charleston, represented the third district from 1843 to 1849, and again from 1851 to 1853.

Afterwards a Republican.

Timothy R. Young, (d) of Marshall, represented the third district from 1849 to 1851.

*John Wentworth, (d) of Chicago, represented the fourth district from 1843 to 1851, and the second from 1853 to 1855, and the first from 1855 to 1867.

Richard S. Molony, (d) of Belvidere, represented the fourth district from 1851 to 1853.

Stephen A. Douglas, (d) of Quincy, represented the fifth district from 1843 to April, 1847, when he resigned to accept the office of United States Senator.

William A. Richardson, (d) of Rushville, represented the fifth district from 1847 to August 18, 1856, when he resigned, and again from 1861 to 1863, when he was elected United States Senator.

Joseph P. Hoge, (d) of Galena, represented the sixth district from 1843 to 1847.

Thomas J. Turner, (d) of Freeport, represented the sixth district from 1847 to 1849.

Thompson Campbell, (d) of Galena, represented the sixth district from 1851 to 1853.

John J. Hardin, (w) of Jacksonville, represented the seventh district from 1843 to 1845.

Edward D. Baker, (w) of Springfield, represented the seventh district from 1845 to December 30, 1846, when he resigned, and the sixth from 1849 to 1851.

John Henry, (w) of Jacksonville, filled out the vacancy of Baker.

*Abraham Lincoln, (w) of Springfield, represented the seventh district from 1847 to 1849.

Thomas L. Harris, (d) of Petersburg, represented the seventh district from 1849 to 1851, and the sixth from 1855 to November 24, 1859, when he died.

Richard Yates, (w) of Jacksonville, represented the seventh district from 1851 to 1853, and the sixth from 1853 to 1855.

*Afterwards a Republican.

The census of 1850 increased the representation from seven to nine.

*Elihu B. Washburne, (w) of Galena, represented the first district from 1853 to 1863, and the third from 1863 to March 9, 1869, when he resigned to accept the office of Minister to France.

James H. Woodworth, (d) of Chicago, represented the second district from 1855 to 1857.

John F. Farnsworth, (r) of Chicago, represented the second district from 1857 to 1861, and again from 1863 to 1873.

Isaac N. Arnold, (r) of Chicago, represented the second district from 1861 to 1863, and the first from 1863 to 1865.

Jesse O. Norton, (r) of Joliet, represented the third district from 1853 to 1857, and the sixth from 1863 to 1865.

Owen Lovejoy, (r) of Princeton, represented the third district from 1857 to 1863, and the fifth from 1863 to March, 1864, when he died.

James Knox, (r) of Knoxville, represented the fourth district from 1853 to 1857.

William Kellogg, (r) of Canton, represented the fourth district from 1857 to 1863.

Jacob C. Davis (d) filled out the vacancy of Richardson in the fifth district, from August 25, 1856, to 1857.

Isaac N. Morris, (d) of Quincy, represented the fifth district from 1857 to 1861.

Charles D. Hodges, (d) of Carrollton, filled out the vacancy of Harris in the sixth district from January 20, 1859, to March 3.

A. L. Knapp, (d) of Jerseyville, filled out the vacancy of McClernand in the sixth district from December 12, 1861, to 1863, and represented the tenth from 1863 to 1865.

*Afterwards a Republican.

James C. Allen, (d) of Palestine, represented the seventh district from 1853 to 1857, and the State-at-Large from 1863 to 1865.

Aaron Shaw, (d) of Lawrenceville, represented the seventh district from 1857 to 1859, and the sixteenth from 1883 to 1885.

James C. Robinson, (d) of Marshall, represented the seventh district from 1859 to 1863, and the eleventh from 1863 to 1865, and the eighth (Springfield) from 1871 to 1873, and the twelfth (Springfield) from 1873 to 1875.

*Lyman Trumbull, (d) of Belleville, was elected from the eighth district to the Thirty-fourth Congress, but resigned in 1855 to accept the office of United States Senator.

J. L. D. Morrison, (d) of Belleville, was elected to succeed Trumbull in the eighth district, and served one term. Philip B. Fouke, (d) of Belleville, represented the eighth district from 1859 to 1863.

Samuel S. Marshall, (d) of McLeansboro, represented the ninth district from 1855 to 1859, and the eleventh from 1865 to 1873, and the nineteenth from 1873 to 1875.

+John A. Logan, (d) of Benton, represented the ninth district from 1859 to 1861, when he resigned, and, raising a regiment, went into the Union army; and the State-atLarge from 1867 to 1871, when he resigned to accept the office of United States Senator.

William J. Allen, (d) of Marion, filled out the vacancy of Logan in the ninth district, and represented the thirteenth from 1863 to 1865.

The census of 1860 increased the representation from nine to fourteen.

Samuel W. Moulton, (r) of Shelbyville, represented the State-at-Large from 1865 to 1867, and the fifteenth district from 1881 to 1883, and the seventeenth from 1883 to 1885.

*Afterwards a Republican-now a Democrat. + Afterwards a Republican.

Now a Democrat.