The 1st Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from February 18, 1862, to February 17, 1864, during the first two years of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia.
Sessions
Held February 18, 1862, through February 17, 1864, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia 1st Session – February 18, 1862 to April 21, 1862 2nd Session – August 18, 1862 to October 13, 1862 3rd Session – January 12, 1863 to May 1, 1863 4th Session – December 7, 1863 to February 17, 1864
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
Assistant Secretary: Edward H. Stephens, Virginia
Journal Clerk: C. T. Bruen, Virginia
Recording Clerk: Henry H. Hubbard, Mossy Creek, Tennessee
Sergeant-at-Arms: Lafayette H. Fitzhugh, Kentucky
Doorkeeper: James Page, North Carolina
Assistant Doorkeeper: John Wadsworth, Georgia
House
Clerk: Robert Emmett Dixon Sr., Georgia (died April 24, 1863) Albert Reese Lamar, Georgia — sessions 3 and 4 Assistant Clerk: James McDonald, Virginia Assistant Clerk: David Louis Dalton, Alabama — sessions 3 and 4 Doorkeeper: Robert Harrison Wynne, Alabama
Members
Senate
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. In this Congress, all senators were newly elected. Senators of Class 1 served a two-year term, expiring at the end of this Congress, requiring a new election for the 1864–1870 term. Class 2 senators served what was intended to be a four-year term, due to end on the expiry of the next Congress in 1866. Class 3 senators were meant to serve a six-year term, due to expire at the end of the Third Confederate Congress in 1868. As the Confederate Congress lasted less than four full years, the distinction between classes 2 and 3 was ultimately academic.
The members of the classes were selected by the drawing of lots, which was done during the meeting of the Senate on February 21, 1862.
Alabama
1. Clement Claiborne Clay
3. William Lowndes Yancey (died July 23, 1863) Robert Jemison Jr. (took his seat on December 28, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy)
Arkansas
1. Robert Ward Johnson
3. Charles Burton Mitchel
Florida
1. James McNair Baker
2. Augustus Emmet Maxwell
Georgia
3. Benjamin Harvey Hill
1. Robert Augustus Toombs (elected but refused to serve) John Wood Lewis Sr. (took his seat on April 7, 1862 - Appointed to serve until the place could be filled) Herschel Vespasian Johnson (took his seat on January 19, 1863 - Elected to fill vacancy)
Kentucky
3. Henry Cornelius Burnett
1. William Emmet Simms
Louisiana
2. Thomas Jenkins Semmes
3. Edward Sparrow
Mississippi
2. Albert Gallatin Brown
1. James Phelan Sr.
Missouri
1. John Bullock Clark Sr. 2. Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (died September 3, 1863) Waldo Porter Johnson (took his seat on December 24, 1863 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
North Carolina
1. George Davis (resigned in January 1864 to become CS Attorney General) Edwin Godwin Reade (took his seat on January 22, 1864 - Appointed to fill vacancy) 2. William Theophilus Dortch
South Carolina
2. Robert Woodward Barnwell
3. James Lawrence Orr
Tennessee
3. Landon Carter Haynes
2. Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr.
Texas
3. William Simpson Oldham Sr. 2. Louis Trezevant Wigfall
Virginia
3. R. M. T. Hunter
2. William Ballard Preston (died November 16, 1862) Allen Taylor Caperton (took his seat on January 22, 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy)
House of Representatives
X: Originally member of the Provisional Confederate Congress
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.