- The Senate
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Membership (84 members):
- Clement C. Clay ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- James L. Pugh ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert W. Johnson ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- William K. Sebastian ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- William M. Gwin ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- Milton S. Latham ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- James A. McDougall ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- James Dixon ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Lafayette S. Foster ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- James A. Bayard ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Willard Saulsbury ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Stephen R. Mallory ( Florida Delegation ) Visualize
- David L. Yulee ( Florida Delegation ) Visualize
- Alfred Iverson ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert Toombs ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Orville H. Browning ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Stephen A. Douglas ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Lyman Trumbull ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Jesse D. Bright ( Indiana Delegation ) Visualize
- Graham N. Fitch ( Indiana Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry S. Lane ( Indiana Delegation ) Visualize
- Joseph A. Wright ( Indiana Delegation ) Visualize
- James W. Grimes ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- James Harlan ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- James H. Lane ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Samuel C. Pomeroy ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- John J. Crittenden ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- Garrett Davis ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- Lazarus W. Powell ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- Judah P. Benjamin ( Louisiana Delegation ) Visualize
- John Slidell ( Louisiana Delegation ) Visualize
- William P. Fessenden ( Maine Delegation ) Visualize
- Hannibal Hamlin ( Maine Delegation ) Visualize
- Lot M. Morrill ( Maine Delegation ) Visualize
- Anthony Kennedy ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- James Pearce ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles Sumner ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry Wilson ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Kinsley S. Bingham ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Zachariah Chandler ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Jacob M. Howard ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry M. Rice ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- Morton S. Wilkinson ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- Albert G. Brown ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- Jefferson Davis ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- James S. Green ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- John B. Henderson ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Trusten Polk ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert Wilson ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel Clark ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- John P. Hale ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- John C. Ten Eyck ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- John R. Thomson ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Ira Harris ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Preston King ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- William H. Seward ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Bragg ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas L. Clingman ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- John Sherman ( Ohio Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Wade ( Ohio Delegation ) Visualize
- Edward D. Baker ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- Joseph Lane ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- James W. Nesmith ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Stark ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- William Bigler ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Simon Cameron ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Edgar Cowan ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- David Wilmot ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry B. Anthony ( Rhode Island Delegation ) Visualize
- James F. Simmons ( Rhode Island Delegation ) Visualize
- Andrew Johnson ( Tennessee Delegation ) Visualize
- Alfred O.P. Nicholson ( Tennessee Delegation ) Visualize
- John Hemphill ( Texas Delegation ) Visualize
- Louis T. Wigfall ( Texas Delegation ) Visualize
- Jacob Collamer ( Vermont Delegation ) Visualize
- Solomon Foot ( Vermont Delegation ) Visualize
- John S. Carlile ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert M. T. Hunter ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- James M. Mason ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Waitman T. Willey ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- James R. Doolittle ( Wisconsin Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles Durkee ( Wisconsin Delegation ) Visualize
- Timothy O. Howe ( Wisconsin Delegation ) Visualize
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Sessions (103)
The first day of Senate business for the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress.
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More Senators join the Senate. The Senate recieves the President's Annual Message.
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More Senators join the Senate. Mr. Green submits a resolution for consideration on the slavery question.
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More Senators join the Senate; Mr. Powell presents a resolution to create a Committee of Thirteen to consider the conflict within the Union.
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More Senators join the Senate. The Senate considers Mr. Powell's resolution on the creation of a Committee of Thirteen.
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The Senate considers Mr. Powell's resolution.
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More Senators join the Senate. The Senate takes up Mr. Powell's resolution.
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Mr. Johnson submits a resolution on the slavery question. The Senate takes up Mr. Powell's resolution.
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The Senate takes up Mr. Powell's resolution.
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Mr. Crittenden presents S. 50 (The Crittenden Compromise) and it is printed.
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Another Senator joins the Senate.
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The Vice President announces the appointment of the Committee of Thirteen.
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The Committee of Thirteen reports on the condition of the country and the report is printed. The Senate takes up S. 50 (The Crittenden Compromise). Both are postponed until Wednesday next.
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Mr. Crittenden re-proposes S. 50 as S. 54 (The Crittenden Compromise). The Senate briefly considers the report from the Committee of Thirteen and postpones consideration until Monday.
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Another Senator joins the Senate. The Senate takes up S. 54.
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The Senate recieves a message from the President on the slavery question and the secession crisis.
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The Senate considers the President's Message from January 9th.
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up.
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The Senate takes up the President's Message from January 9th.
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Mr. Crittenden moves to take up S. 54. Mr. Bigler submits his compromise proposition: S. 537.
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It is moved to take up S. 54.
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Mr. Crittenden moves to take up S. 54. Mr. Green presents a Joint Resolution (S. 59).
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The Senate considers S. No. 59 and it is decided that the resolution be printed and lie on the table.
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up.
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Many Senators withdraw due to secession.
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up.
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Mr. Iverson withdraws from the Senate. The Senate recieves a message from the President on the Peace Conference including resolutions from Virginia.
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions). Mr. Bigler presents a resolution to admit commissioners from the Peace Convention to the floor of the Senate. Many Senators withdraw due to secession.
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The Senate considers a message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions). The Senate recieves a message from the President on a Peace Conference including resolutions from Kentucky.
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up. The Senate considers the message from the President on the Peace Conference (Virginia resolutions).
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up.
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It is debated whether S. 54 will be taken up. The Senate recieves a communication from John Tyler, the chair of the Peace Convention, suggesting amendments. A Committee of Five is created and the message is referred with instructions to report on the next day.
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The Senate receives a message that both H. Res. 80 (The Corwin Amendment) and H. Res. 64 require the concurrence of the Senate. The Committee of Five reports S. 70 (Peace Convention propositions) and Mr. Seward presents S. 71.
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The Senate reads H. Res. 80 for the first time. The Senate considers S. 70.
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The Senate takes up H. Res. 80.
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The Senate takes up H. Res. 80 and S. 54.
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The last day of the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress. Membership is dissolved.
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The first day of Senate business for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress
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More Senators join; standing committees are appointed; a resolution on slavery in the District of Columbia is proposed
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Waitman Willey joins the Senate; S. 108 is proposed; a resolution is proposed expelling Jesse D. Bright from the Senate and it is referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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S. 108 is referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia
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Garrett Davis joins the Senate
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The credentials of Benjamin Stark are introduced; Mr. Fessenden motions to refer the credentials to the Committee on the Judiciary
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The motion to refer the credentials of Benjamin Stark is adopted
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports on the resolution expelling Jesse Bright from the Senate
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Jacob Howard joins the Senate
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Robert Wilson joins the Senate
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John Henderson joins the Senate
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Mr. Bright is expelled from the Senate
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports a resolution on the case of Benjamin Stark
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S. 108 is reported by the Committee on the District of Columbia with amendments
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Mr. Hale move to recommit the resolution on the case of Benjamin Stark
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Mr. Wilson proposes S. 210; it is referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia
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Mr. Sumner offers an amendment to the resolution on Benjamin Stark
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Mr. Stark joins the Senate; S. 108 is made the special order for the following Wednesday
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Joseph Wright joins the Senate
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The Senate receives a message from the President of the United States on the abolition of slavery and refers it to the Committee on the Judiciary
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S. 108 is considered in Committee of the Whole
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S. 108 is taken up as the unfinished business of yesterday; consider of the bill is postponed until tomorrow
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole; Mr. Grimes makes bills on D. C. the special order for April 3rd
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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Consideration of S. 108 is postponed until tomorrow in order to take up a naval appropriation bill
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Mr. Wright presents S. 252, a bill to abolish slavery in DC
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider S. 108 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, considers S. 108 and reports it to the Senate with amendments
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The Senate receives a message that the House has passed H. R. 374; it is referred to the Committee on Territories
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Mr. Browning, from the Committee on Territories, reports H. R. 374 with an amendment
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The Senate proceeds to consideration of H. R. 374 in the Committee of the Whole; it is reported to the Senate and passed
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Mr. Wilson presents S. 351, supplementary to S. 108; it is read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia
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The Senate receives a message that the House concurred in the Senate amendment to H. R. 374; the bill is enrolled and signed by the Vice President
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Mr. Grimes from the Committee on the District of Columbia reports S. 351 with amendments
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S. 351 is considered in Committee of the Whole; it is reported to the Senate with amendments and is passed
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S. 351 is enrolled and signed by the President pro tempore
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