Boldface (with superscript C) numbers indicate the majority Party in each house. Red (with superscript P) numbers (boldface or not) indicate the Party of the President in any event.
President | Party | Congress | United States Senate | House of Representatives | |||||
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Republican | Federalist | other | vacancies | Republican | Federalist | other | |||
Madison | Republican | 12th 1811-1813 | 26CP | 8 | |||||
12th CONGRESS- in General SENATE: 26 Republicans, 8 Federalists Although the latest date- as mandated by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 4, clause 2- for the convening of the "long" session of the 12th Congress was 2 December 1811, this Congress actually convened its "long" session on 4 November 1811. LOUISIANA was admitted as the 18th State of the Union on 30 April 1812: as this was after the end of the odd-numbered year during which the 12th Congress took office [this being 1811], Louisiana's 2 Senators are NOT counted among those elected to the Senate of the 4th Congress; neither is Louisiana's 1 Congressman counted among those elected to the House of Representatives in that Congress. 12TH CONGRESS- United States SENATE Joseph B. Varnum, a Republican, was elected by the General Court of the Commonwealth of MASSACHUSETTS to the Class 2 seat (term: 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1817) from that State on 8 June 1811, before the end of the odd-numbered year in which the 12th Congress took office [this being 1811]. Senator Varnum, therefore, is counted among the 26 Republicans elected to the Senate of the 12th Congress, notwithstanding the existence of a vacancy at the start of that Congress [4 March 1811] due to a failure of the legislature to elect. |
Modified .