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SESSIONS
First Session
4 February
1861
-
16 March
1861
in
Montgomery, Alabama
Second Session
29 April
1861
-
21 May
1861
in Montgomery, Alabama
Third Session
20 July
1861
-
31 August
1861
in
Richmond, Virginia
Fourth Session
3 September
1861
(''called'') in Richmond, Virginia
Fifth Session
18 November
1861
-
17 February
1862
in Richmond, Virginia
LEADERSHIP
President of the Provisional Congress
Howell Cobb, Sr.
of
Georgia
-
4 February
,
1861
-
17 February
,
1862
President
Pro Tempore
Robert Woodward Barnwell
of
South Carolina
- February 4, 1861
Thomas Stanhope Bocock
of
Virginia
- December 10-21, 1861 and January 7-8, 1862
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell
of
Mississippi
- December 23-24, 1861 and January 6, 1862
MEMBERS
Deputies
Deputies from the first seven states to secede formed the first two sessions of the Congress.
Alabama
William Parish Chilton, Sr.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
Thomas Fearn
(''resigned''
16 March
1861
''after first Session'')
---
Nicholas Davis, Jr.
(''took his seat on''
29 April
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy'')
Stephen Fowler Hale
David Peter Lewis
(''resigned''
16 March
1861
''after first Session'')
---
Henry Cox Jones
(''took his seat on''
29 April
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy'')
Colin John McRae
John Gill Shorter
(''resigned''
November
1861
)
---
Cornelius Robinson
(''took his seat on''
29 April
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy; resigned''
24 January
1862
)
Robert Hardy Smith
Richard Wilde Walker
Florida
James Patton Anderson
(''resigned''
8 April
1861
)
---
George Taliaferro Ward
(''took his seat on ''
2 May
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy; resigned ''
5 February
1862
)
---
John Pease Sanderson
(''took his seat on ''
5 February
1862
- ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')
Jackson Morton
James Byeram Owens
Georgia
Francis Stebbins Bartow
(''killed''
21 July
1861
''at the
First Battle Of Bull Run
'')
---
Thomas Marsh Forman
(''took his seat on''
7 August
1861
- ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')
Howell Cobb, Sr.
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Martin Jenkins Crawford
Benjamin Harvey Hill
Augustus Holmes Kenan
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
(''resigned''
10 December
1861
)
---
Nathan Henry Bass, Sr.
(''took his seat on''
14 January
1862
- ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Robert Augustus Toombs
Augustus Romaldus Wright
Louisiana
Charles Magill Conrad
Alexandre Etienne DeClouet
Duncan Farrar Kenner
Henry Marshall
John Perkins, Jr.
Edward Sparrow
Mississippi
William Taylor Sullivan Barry
Walker Brooke
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell
Alexander Mosby Clayton
(''resigned''
11 May
1861
)
---
Alexander Blackburn Bradford
(''took his seat on''
5 December
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy'')
Wiley Pope Harris
James Thomas Harrison
William Sydney Wilson
(''resigned''
16 March
1861
''after first session'')
---
Jehu Amaziah Orr
(''took his seat on''
29 April
1861
- ''Elected to fill vacancy'')
South Carolina
Robert Woodward Barnwell
William Waters Boyce
James Chesnut, Jr.
Laurence Massillon Keitt
Christopher Gustavus Memminger
William Porcher Miles
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr.
Thomas Jefferson Withers
(''resigned''
21 May
1861
''after second session'')
---
James Lawrence Orr
(''took his seat on''
17 February
1862
- ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')
Texas
John Gregg
John Hemphill
(''died''
4 January
1862
)
William Beck Ochiltree, Sr.
Williamson Simpson Oldham, Sr.
John Henninger Reagan
Thomas Neville Waul
Louis Trezevant Wigfall
Delegates
Representatives from states to secede after the
Battle Of Fort Sumter
were referred to as delegates, in contrast to the deputies from the original seven states.
Arkansas
Augustus Hill Garland
Robert Ward Johnson
Albert Rust
Hugh French Thomason
William Wirt Watkins
Kentucky
Henry Cornelius Burnett
Theodore Legrand Burnett
John Milton Elliott
George Washington Ewing
Samuel Howard Ford
George Baird Hodge
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Bell Monroe
John J. Thomas
Daniel Price White
Missouri
Caspar Wistar Bell
John Bullock Clark, Sr.
Aaron H. Conrow
William Mordecai Cooke, Sr.
Thomas W. Freeman
Thomas Alexander Harris
Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton
George Graham Vest
North Carolina
William Waightstill Avery
Francis Burton Craige
Allen Turner Davidson
George Davis
Thomas David Smith McDowell
John Motley Morehead
Richard Clauselle Puryear
Thomas Ruffin
William Nathan Harrell Smith
Abraham Watkins Venable
Tennessee
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins
Robert Looney Caruthers
David Maney Currin
William Henry DeWitt
John Ford House
Thomas McKissick Jones
James Houston Thomas
Virginia
Thomas Stanley Bocock
Alexander Boteler
John White Brockenbrough
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Robert Johnston
William Hamtilon MacFarland
James Murray Mason, Sr.
Walter Preston
William Ballard Preston
Roger Atkinson Pryor, Sr.
William Cabell Rives
Charles Wells Russell
Robert Eden Scott
James Alexander Seddon
Waller Redd Staples
John Tyler
(''died''
18 January
1862
)
Arizona Territory
Granville Henderson Oury
SEE ALSO
First Confederate Congress
Second Confederate Congress
