The Twenty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1831 to March 4, 1833, during the third and fourth years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fourth Census of the United States in 1820. Both chambers had a Jacksonian majority.
December 28, 1832: Vice President John C. Calhoun resigned. The first Vice President of the United States to do so.
Nullification Crisis
July 14, 1832: Tariff of 1832, ch. 227, 4 Stat. 583
March 2, 1833: Tariff of 1833 (Compromise Tariff), ch. 55, 4 Stat. 629
March 2, 1833: Force Bill, ch. 57, 4 Stat. 632
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
President: John C. Calhoun (J), resigned December 28, 1832; thereafter vacant.
President pro tempore: Samuel Smith (J), first elected December 5, 1831
Littleton W. Tazewell (J), elected July 9, 1832
Hugh Lawson White (J), elected December 3, 1832
Speaker: Andrew Stevenson (J)
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
Skip to House of Representatives, below
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1832; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1834; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1836.
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Replacements: 7
Jacksonians: no net change
Anti-Jacksonians: no net change
Nullifiers: no net change
Deaths: 0
Resignations: 7
Interim appointments: 1
Total seats with changes: 9
replacements: 9
Jacksonians: 1-seat net gain
Anti-Jacksonians: 2-seat net loss
Anti-Masonics: 1-seat net gain
deaths: 8
resignations: 2
contested election: 0
Total seats with changes: 11
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Agriculture
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
Claims
Commerce
Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
District of Columbia
Finance
Foreign Relations
French Spoilations (Select)
Indian Affairs
Judiciary
Manufactures
Memorial of the Bank of the United States (Select)
Mileage of Members of Congress (Select)
Military Affairs
Militia
Naval Affairs
Ohio-Michigan Boundary (Select)
Pensions
Post Office and Post Roads
Private Land Claims
Public Lands
Revolutionary Claims
Roads and Canals
Tariff Bill (Select)
Tariff Regulation (Select)
Whole
Accounts
Agriculture
American Colonization Society (Select)
Asylum for the Blind (Select)
Bank of the United States (Select)
Biennial Register (Select)
British Depredations of the Northern Frontier (Select)
Claims
Commerce
District of Columbia
Elections
Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region (Select)
Expenditures in the Navy Department
Expenditures in the Post Office Department
Expenditures in the State Department
Expenditures in the Treasury Department
Expenditures in the War Department
Expenditures on Public Buildings
Foreign Affairs
Indian Affairs
Invalid Pensions
Manufactures
Military Affairs
Naval Affairs
Post Office and Post Roads
Public Expenditures
Public Lands
Revisal and Unfinished Business
Revolutionary Claims
Roads and Canals
Rules (Select)
Standards of Official Conduct
Territories
Ways and Means
Whole
Code of Laws for the District of Columbia
Enrolled Bills
Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan
Chaplain: John P. Durbin (Methodist), elected December 19, 1831
Charles C. Pise (Roman Catholic), elected December 11, 1832
Secretary: Walter Lowrie
Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly
Chaplain: Reuben Post (Presbyterian) elected December 5, 1831
William Hammett (Presbyterian), elected December 3, 1832
Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
Doorkeeper: Overton Carr, elected December 5, 1831
Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn
