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First Confederate Congress

The First Confederate Congress was the first regular session of the Legislature of the Confederate States Of America . Members of the First Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held in November 1861.

SESSIONS

All sessions of the First Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capital of Richmond, Virginia .

1st Session - 18 February 1862 to 21 April 1862

2nd Session - 18 August 1862 to 13 October 1862

3rd Session - 12 January 1863 to 1 May 1863

4th Session - 7 December 1863 to 17 February 1864

LEADERSHIP

Senate

President of the Senate: Vice President Alexander H. Stephens

President of Virginia {Link without Title}

House

Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Stanley Bocock of Virginia - 18 February , 1862 - 18 March , 1865

Speaker of Alabama ( 1863 ) {Link without Title}

MEMBERS

Senate

Alabama

Clement Claiborne Clay

William Lowndes Yancey (''died'' 23 July 1863 )

--- Robert Jemison, Jr. (''took his seat on '' 28 December 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Robert Ward Johnson

Charles Burton Mitchel

Florida

James McNair Baker

Augustus Emmet Maxwell

Georgia

Robert Augustus Toombs (''elected but refused to serve'')

--- John Wood Lewis, Sr. (''took his seat on '' 7 April 1862 - ''Appointed to serve until the place could be filled'')

--- Herschel Vespasian Johnson (''took his seat on '' 19 January 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Benjamin Harvey Hill

Henry Cornelius Burnett

William Emmet Simms

Thomas Jenkins Semmes

Edward Sparrow

Albert Gallatin Brown

James Phelan, Sr.

John Bullock Clark, Sr.

Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (''died'' 3 September 1863 )

--- Waldo Porter Johnson (''took his seat on '' 24 December 1863 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')

George Davis (''resigned in'' January 1864 ''to become CS Attorney General'')

--- Edwin Godwin Reade (''took his seat on '' 22 January 1864 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')

William Theophilus Dortch

Robert Woodward Barnwell

James Lawrence Orr

Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.

Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr.

Texas

William Simpson Oldham, Sr.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter

William Ballard Preston (''died'' 16 November 1862 )

--- Allen Taylor Caperton (''took his seat on '' 22 January 1864 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

House of Representatives

''Sorted in districts of Election''
X: Originally member of the Provisional Confederate Congress

Alabama

Thomas Jefferson Foster

William Russell Smith

John Perkins Ralls

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry X

Francis Strother Lyon

William Parish Chilton, Sr. X

David Clopton

James Lawrence Pugh

Edmund Strother Dargan

Arkansas

Felix Ives Batson

Grandison Delaney Royston

Augustus Hill Garland X

Thomas Burton Hanly

Florida

James Baird Dawkins (''resigned'' 8 December 1862 )

--- John Marshall Martin (''took his seat on '' 25 March 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Robert Benjamin Hilton

Georgia

Julian Hartridge

Charles James Munnerlyn

Hines Holt (''resigned'' 1 March 1863 ''after third session'')

--- Porter Ingram (''took his seat on '' 12 January 1864 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Augustus Holmes Kenan X

David William Lewis

William White Clark

Robert Pleasant Trippe

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell

Hardy Strickland

Augustus Romaldus Wright X

Kentucky

Willis Benson Machen

John Watkins Crockett, Jr.

Henry English Read

George Washington Ewing X

James Chrisman

Theodore Legrand Burnett

Horatio Washington Bruce

George Baird Hodge X

Eli Metcalfe Bruce

James William Moore

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr.

John Milton Elliott X

Louisiana

Charles Jacques Villeré

Charles Magill Conrad X

Duncan Farrar Kenner X

Lucius Jacques Dupré

Henry Marshall X

John Perkins, Jr. X

Mississippi

Jeremiah Watkins Clapp

Reuben Davis (''resigned'' 1 March 1863 ''after third session'')

--- William Dunbar Holder (''took his seat on '' 21 January 1864 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Israel Victor Welch

Henry Cousins Chambers

Otho Robards Singleton

Ethelbert Barksdale

John Jones McRae

Missouri

William Mordecai Cooke, Sr. X (''died'' 3 September 1863 )

Thomas Alexander Harris X

Caspar Wistar Bell X

Aaron H. Conrow X

George Graham Vest X

Thomas W. Freeman X

''Representative-elect'' Hyer ''never took his seat; the district was unrepresented for the entire First Congress;''

North Carolina

William Nathan Harrell Smith

Robert Rufus Bridgers

Owen Rand Kenan

Thomas David Smith McDowell X

Archibald Hunter Arrington

James Robert McLean

Thomas Samuel Ashe

William Lander

Burgess Sidney Gaither

Allen Turner Davidson X

Abraham Watkins Venable X

South Carolina

John McQueen

William Porcher Miles X

Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr..

Milledge Luke Bonham (''resigned'' 13 October 1862 ''after second session'')

--- William Dunlap Simpson (''took his seat on '' 5 February 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

James Farrow

William Water Boyce X

Tennessee

Joseph Brown Heiskell (''resigned'' 6 February 1864 )

William Graham Swan

William Henry Tibbs

Erasmus Lee Gardenhire

Henry Stuart Foote

Meredith Poindexter Gentry

George Washington Jones

Thomas Menees

John DeWitt Clinton Atkins X

John Vines Wright

David Maney Currin X

Texas

John Allen Wilcox (''died'' 7 February 1864 )

Caleb Claiborne Herbert

Peter W. Gray

Franklin Barlow Sexton

Malcolm Duncan Graham

William Bacon Wright

Virginia

Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (''died'' 14 February 1864 )

John Randolph Chambliss, Sr.

James Lyons

Roger Atkinson Pryor X (''resigned'' 5 April 1862 )

--- Charles Fenton Collier (''took his seat on '' 18 August 1862 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Thomas Stanhope Bocock X

John Goode, Jr.

James Philemon Holcombe

Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr.

William "Extra Billy" Smith (''resigned'' 4 April 1863 )

--- David Funsten (''took his seat on '' 7 December 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Alexander Boteler X

John Brown Baldwin

Waller Redd Staples X

Walter Preston X

Albert Gallatin Jenkins (''resigned'' 21 April 1862 ''after first session'')

--- Samuel Augustine Miller (''took his seat on '' 24 February 1863 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

Robert Johnston X

Charles Wells Russell X

Arizona Territory

Marcus H. MacWillie

Cherokee Nation

Elias Cornelius Boudinot X

Choctaw Nation

Robert McDonald Jones

SEE ALSO

Provisional Confederate Congress

Second Confederate Congress