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45 unusual facts about 29th United States Congress


Abner Lewis

Lewis was elected as a Whig to the 29th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Adam John Glossbrenner

He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and in the United States Department of State at Washington, D.C., in 1848 and 1849.

Archibald C. Niven

Niven was elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Asa Biggs

Biggs was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1847, but was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election in 1846.

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

Charles W. Cathcart

Cathcart was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849; he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Whitcomb and served from December 6, 1852, to January 18, 1853.

Daniel P. King

King served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twenty-eighth Congress), Committee on Accounts (Twenty-ninth through Thirty-first Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirtieth Congress).

Daniel R. Tilden

Tilden was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 4, 1847).

David S. Kaufman

Upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union, Kaufman was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Felix Grundy McConnell

Mcconnell was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 10, 1846.

George O. Rathbun

Rathbun was elected to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847.

Henry J. Seaman

Seaman was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847).

Henry T. Ellett

In the 1846 election, the Democrat Ellett defeated future Civil War general Peter B. Starke for a seat in the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis.

Henry Washington Hilliard

Hilliard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1850.

Herman D. Gould

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

James B. Hunt

In 1842, Hunt was elected as a Democrat to the 28th United States Congress, and was re-elected to the 29th Congress, serving from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847, the first person to represent Michigan's 3rd congressional district.

James C. Dobbin

Dobbin later got involved in politics and was elected a Democrat to the twenty-ninth congress, serving from 1845 to 1847.

James La Fayette Cottrell

Cottrell was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Yancey and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847.

James W. Stone

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Jeremiah Russell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress, and afterwards resumed banking.

John M. Holley

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

John McQueen

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1844 to the 29th United States Congress.

John Wesley Davis

He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana in the 24th, 26th, 28th and 29th Congresses and was Speaker of the U.S. House in the 29th Congress.

Joseph E. Edsall

Edsall was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849.

Joseph W. Chalmers

While in the Senate, Williams was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (29th United States Congress).

Levi D. Carpenter

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1844 to the 29th United States Congress.

Martin Grover

He was elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Missouri's at-large congressional district

From the state's creation August 10, 1821 until the end of the 29th United States Congress (in 1847), and also for the 73rd Congress (1933-1935), Missouri elected its members of the United States House of Representatives at-large state-wide on a general ticket.

Moses McClean

McClean was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and supported the declaration of war against Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

Richard P. Herrick

Herrick was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1846.

Samuel Dickinson Hubbard

Hubbard later got involved in politics and in 1844 he was elected to the Twenty-ninth United States Congress and later reelected to the Thirtieth Congress serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849, both terms as a Whig.

Shepherd Leffler

Upon the admission of Iowa as a state on December 28, 1846, he was elected as a Democrat to serve as one of two at-large Congressmen for the last two months of the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Stephen Strong

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twenty-ninth Congress).

Texas Democratic Party

In 1845, the 29th United States Congress approved the Texas Constitution and President James K. Polk signed the act admitting Texas as a state on December 29.

Thomas C. McCreery

He ran unsuccessfully for election in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress, and again in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Thomas M. Woodruff

He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1847).

United States House of Representatives election in Florida, 1845

The election to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for the 29th Congress was held on May 26, 1845, the first Congressional election in Florida's history.

Washington Hunt

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th, 29th and 30th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849.

William A. Moseley

Moseley was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

William Fell Giles

Giles was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1847), but declined to be a candidate for renomination.

William S. Miller

Miller was elected as an American Party candidate to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847).

William Tredway

Tredway was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847) with 57.34% of the vote, defeating Whig John D. Cheatham.

William W. Woodworth

Woodworth was finally elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847), representing New York's 8th district, although he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1846.

William Woodbridge

He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands in the 28th Congress, 1843–1844, and of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office in the 29th Congress, 1845–1846.

Wilmot Proviso

Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War (this was only three months into the two-year war).