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Principal Officers of the United States Government from Pennsylvania, from the First Continental Congress to the Present time.

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List of U. S. Senators from Pennsylvania since the foundation of the Government.

1801-1807

1808-1814

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Isaac D. Barnard..... 1827-1831 | George Logan..
William Bigler.
William Bingham.... 1795-1801
Richard Brodhead .... 1851-1857
James Buchanan...... 1835-1845
Chas. R. Buckalew... 1863-1869
1845-1849
1857-1861
1867-1873

1855-1861 Michael Leib
Walter Lowrie ........
1819-1825
Samuel Maclay........ 1803-1808
William Maclay. 1789-1791
William Marks........ 1425-1831
Samuel M'Lean
1835-1839
Robert Morris........ 1789-1795

Simon Cameron.

James Cooper.

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Jonathan Roberts..... 1814-1821

Peter Muhlenberg..... 1801-1801

1873-1879

1849-1855

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Speakers of the House of Representatives of the United States, from 1789 to 1876.

First Congress-Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, April 1, 1789, and served to March 3, 1791.

Second Congress-Jonathan Trumbell, of Connecticut, elected Speaker, and served from October 24, 1791, to March 3, 1793.

Third Congress-Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of Penrsylvania, elected Speaker, and served from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1795.

Fourth and Fifth Congresses-Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1795, to March 3, 1799.

Sixth Congress-Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from December 2, 1799, to March 3, 1801.

Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Congresses-Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1891, to March 3, 1807.

Tenth and Eleventh Congresses-Joseph B. Varnum, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from October 26, 1807, to March 3, 1811.

Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses-Henry Clay, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 1821.

Seventeenth Congress-Philip P. Barbour, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823. Eighteenth Congress-Henry Clay, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from December 1, 1823, to March 1, 1825.

Nineteenth Congress-John W. Taylor, of New York, elected Speaker, and served from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1827.

Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses-Andrew Stephenson, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 3, 1827, to June 3, 1831; and John Bell, of Tennessee, elected on 4th June to serve out balance of Twenty-third Congress, which ended March 3, 1835.

Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses-James K. Polk, of Tennessee, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1839.

Twenty-Sixth Congress-Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 16, 1839, to March 3. 1841.

Twenty-seventh Congress-John White, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843.

Twenty-eighth Congress-John W. Jones, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845. Twenty-ninth Congress-John W. Davis, of Indiana, elected Speaker, and served from December 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Thirtieth Congress-Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from December 16, 1847, to March 2, 1849.

Thirty-first Congress-Howell Cobb, of Georgia, elected Speaker, and served from December 24, 1849, to March 3, 1851.

Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses-Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from December 4, 1851, to March 3, 1855.

Thirty-fourth Congress-Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr., of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from February 2, 1856, to March 3, 1857.

Thirty-fifth Congress-Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1859.

Thirty-sixth Congress-William Pennington, of New Jersey, elected Speaker, and served from February 1, 1860, to March 3, 1861. Thirty-seventh Congress-Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, elected Speaker, and served from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.

Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses-Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1863, to March 2, 1869; and Theodore M. Pomeroy, of New York, elected March 2, to serve out balance of Fortieth Congress. which ended March 3, 1869.

Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses-James G. Blaine, of Maine, elected March 4, 1869; re-elected March 4, 1871, and March 3, 1873, and served to March 3, 1875.

Forty-fourth Congress-Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, elected December 6, 1875.

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