Principal Officers of the United States Government from Pennsylvania, from the First Continental Congress to the Present time. List of U. S. Senators from Pennsylvania since the foundation of the Government. 1801-1807 1808-1814 ........ Isaac D. Barnard..... 1827-1831 | George Logan.. 1855-1861 Michael Leib Simon Cameron. James Cooper. Jonathan Roberts..... 1814-1821 Peter Muhlenberg..... 1801-1801 1873-1879 1849-1855 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. |