The 2nd Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia; the Confederacy's government effectively dissolved 16 days later, when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865. Its members were elected in the 1863 congressional elections.
Sessions
Held May 2, 1864, through March 18, 1865, at the Virginia State Capital in Richmond, Virginia. The term of the Second Congress was due to end on February 18, 1866. However, due to the defeat and dissolution of the Confederacy prior to that time, the Congress did not function after the end of its second and final session. 1st Session – May 2, 1864 to June 14, 1864 2nd Session – November 7, 1864 to March 18, 1865
Leadership
Senate
President: Alexander H. Stephens
President pro tempore: R. M. T. Hunter
House
Speaker: Thomas S. Bocock
Officers
Senate
Secretary: James H. Nash, South Carolina
Recording Clerk: John W. Anderson, Alabama
Sergeant-at-Arms: Lafayette H. Fitzhugh, Kentucky
Doorkeeper: James Page, North Carolina
Assistant Doorkeeper: John Wadsworth, Georgia
House
Clerk: Albert Reese Lamar, Georgia
Assistant Clerk: David Louis Dalton, Alabama — sessions 3 and 4
Doorkeeper: Robert Harrison Wynne, Alabama
Members
Senate
X: served in the Senate of the First Congress (i.e. reelected or continued in office for this Second Congress).
Confederate States senators were elected by the state legislatures, or appointed by state governors to fill casual vacancies until the legislature elected a new senator. It was intended that one-third of the Senate would begin new six-year terms with each Congress after the first.
Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their terms. Senators of Class 1 were intended to serve a six-year term, starting with this Congress and expiring in 1870. Class 2 senators served what was intended to be a four-year term, due to end on the expiry of this Congress in 1866. Class 3 senators were meant to serve a six-year term, due to expire in 1868.
Alabama
3. Robert Jemison, Jr. X
1. Richard Wilde Walker
Arkansas
1. Robert Ward Johnson X
3. Charles Burton Mitchel X (died September 20, 1864) Augustus Hill Garland (took his seat on November 8, 1864 – Appointed to fill vacancy)
Florida
1. James McNair Baker X
2. Augustus Emmet Maxwell X
Georgia
3. Benjamin Harvey Hill X
1. Herschel Vespasian Johnson X
Kentucky
3. Henry Cornelius Burnett X
1. William Emmet Simms X
Louisiana
2. Thomas Jenkins Semmes X
3. Edward Sparrow X
Mississippi
2. Albert Gallatin Brown X
1. John William Clark Watson
Missouri
2. Waldo Porter Johnson X
1. (vacant caused by the inability of the Missouri legislature to meet and elect a senator) George Graham Vest (took his seat on January 12, 1865 – Appointed to fill vacancy)
North Carolina
2. William Theophilus Dortch X
1. William Alexander Graham
South Carolina
2. Robert Woodward Barnwell X
3. James Lawrence Orr X
Tennessee
3. Landon Carter Haynes X
2. Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr. X
Texas
3. William Simpson Oldham, Sr. X
2. Louis Trezevant Wigfall X
Virginia
3. R. M. T. Hunter X
2. Allen Taylor Caperton X
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
X: reelected
Alabama
1. Thomas Jefferson Foster X
2. William Russell Smith X
3. Congress refused to seat Representative-elect W. R. W. Cobb, an avowed Unionist; the district was not represented; 4. Marcus Henderson Cruikshank 5. Francis Strother Lyon X 6. William Parish Chilton, Sr. X 7. David Clopton X 8. James L. Pugh X 9. James Shelton Dickinson
Arkansas
1. Felix Ives Batson X
2. Rufus King Garland, Jr. 3. Augustus Hill Garland X (resigned to become CS senator November 8, 1864) David Williamson Carroll (took his seat on January 11, 1865 – Elected to fill vacancy on October 24, 1864) 4. Thomas Burton Hanly X