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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Democrat | Republican | other | vacancies | Democrat | Republican | other | |||
Buchanan | Democrat | 35th 1857-1859 | 38CP | 20 | 4 | ||||
35TH CONGRESS- IN GENERAL MINNESOTA was admitted as the 32nd State of the Union on 11 May 1858: as this was after the convening of the "long" session of the 35th Congress on 7 December 1857, Minnesota's 2 Senators are NOT counted among those elected to the Senate of the 35th Congress; neither are Minnesota's 2 Congressmen counted among those elected to the House of Representatives in that Congress. OREGON was admitted as the 33rd State of the Union on 14 February 1859: as this was well after the convening of the "long" session of the 35th Congress on 7 December 1857, Oregon's 2 Senators are NOT counted among those elected to the Senate of the 35th Congress; neither is Oregon's 1 Congressman counted among those elected to the House of Representatives in that Congress. 35TH CONGRESS- SENATE The SENATE of the 35th Congress included 4 Senators from other than the two Major Parties as elected by their respective State legislatures, as follows:
Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, was elected by the General Assembly of the State of TENNESSEE to the Class 1 seat (term: 4 March 1857 to 3 March 1863) from that State before the convening of the "long" session of the 35th Congress on 7 December 1857; Senator Johnson, therefore, is counted among the 38 Democrats elected to the Senate of the 35th Congress, notwithstanding the existence of a vacancy at the start of that Congress [4 March 1857] due to a failure of the legislature to elect. |
Modified .