Footnotes for the Sessions of the 28th Congress, 1843-1845
session
type
convened
adjourned
President pro Tempore of the Senate
Speaker of the House of Representatives
1st
long
4 December 1843
17 June 1844
Mangum
Jones, John W. (Dem.- Virginia)
2nd
short
2 December 1844
3 March 1845
Mangum
Jones
Senate President pro Tempore Willie P. Mangum served as acting President of the Senate during the entirety of the 28th Congress due to a vacancy in the Vice Presidency of the United States (Vice President John Tyler having succeeded to the Presidency during the preceding Congress).