Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
The business of the session being brought to a close, the Vice
President, agreeably to the resolve of the two Houses on the 26th
instant, adjourned the Senate to the first Monday in January next, then
to meet at the City Hall in New York.
FIRST CONGRESS
LIST OF SENATORS.
_New Hampshire._--John Langdon, Paine Wingate.
_Massachusetts._--Caleb Strong, Tristram Dalton.
_Connecticut._--William S. Johnson, Oliver Ellsworth.
_New York._--Rufus King, Philip Schuyler.
_New Jersey._--William Paterson, Jonathan Elmer.
_Pennsylvania._--William Maclay, Robert Morris.
_Delaware._--Richard Bassett, George Reed.
_Maryland._--Charles Carroll, John Henry.
_Virginia._--Richard Henry Lee, William Grayson.
_South Carolina._--Ralph Izard, Pierce Butler.
_Georgia._--William Few, James Gunn.
_North Carolina._[10]--Benjamin Hawkins, Samuel Johnston.
_Rhode Island._[11]--Joseph Stanton, jr., Theodore Foster.
LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES.
_New Hampshire._--Nicholas Gilman, Samuel Livermore, Abiel Foster.
_Massachusetts._--George Thatcher, Fisher Ames, George Leonard, Elbridge
Gerry, Jonathan Grout, Benjamin Goodhue, Theodore Sedgwick, George
Partridge.
_Connecticut._--Benjamin Huntington, Jonathan Trumbull, Jeremiah
Wadsworth, Roger Sherman, Jonathan Sturges.
_New York._--John Lawrence, Egbert Benson, William Floyd, Peter
Sylvester, John Hathorn, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer.
_New Jersey._--Elias Boudinot, James Schureman, Lambert Cadwalader,
Thomas Sinnickson.
_Pennsylvania._--Henry Wynkoop, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Daniel
Heister, Thomas Scott, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Thomas Hartley,
Peter Muhlenberg.
_Delaware._--John Vining.
_Maryland._--William Smith, George Gale, Daniel Carroll, Joshua Seney,
Michael Jenifer Stone, Benjamin Contee.
_Virginia._--Alexander White, James Madison, jr., John Page, Richard
Bland Lee, Samuel Griffin, Andrew Moore, Josiah Parker, Theodorick
Bland,[12] Isaac Coles, John Brown.
_South Carolina._--Thomas Tudor Tucker, Edanus Burke, Daniel Huger,
William Smith, Thomas Sumter.
_Georgia._--Abraham Baldwin, James Jackson, George Mathews.
_North Carolina._[13]--John Steele, Timothy Bloodworth, Hugh Williamson,
John Baptist Ashe, John Sevier.
_Rhode Island._[14]--Benjamin Bourn.
FIRST CONGRESS.--FIRST SESSION.
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES
IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, March 4, 1789.
This being the day fixed for the meeting of the new Congress, the
following members of the House of Representatives appeared and took
their seats, viz:[15]
_From Massachusetts_, GEORGE THATCHER, FISHER AMES, GEORGE LEONARD, and
ELBRIDGE GERRY.
_From Connecticut_, BENJAMIN HUNTINGTON, JONATHAN TRUMBULL, and JEREMIAH
WADSWORTH.
_From Pennsylvania_, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, THOMAS HARTLEY,
PETER MUHLENBERG, and DANIEL HEISTER.
_From Virginia_, ALEXANDER WHITE.
_From South Carolina_, THOMAS TUDOR TUCKER.
A quorum of the members not being present, the House adjourned until
to-morrow at eleven o'clock.
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