Second Confederate Congress

Confederate States Capitol (1865)

The Second Confederate Congress was the second and last regular session of the legislature of the Confederate States of America. Members of the Second Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held in November 1863 and only served one year of their two-year term since the American Civil War ended and the Confederacy was defeated.

Sessions[]

All sessions of the Second Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capital of Richmond, Virginia.

1st Session - 2 May 1864 to 14 June 1864
2nd Session - 7 November 1864 to 18 March 1865

Leadership[]

Senate[]

President of the Senate: Vice President Alexander H. Stephens
President pro tempore: Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter of Virginia
President pro tempore ad interim: William Alexander Graham of North Carolina (1865)[1]

House[]

Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Stanley Bocock of Virginia
Speaker pro tempore: William Parish Chilton, Sr. of Alabama [2]

Members[]

Senate[]

X: served in the First Congress (ie reelected for this Second Congress).

Alabama

Arkansas

Robert Ward Johnson X
Charles Burton Mitchel X (died 20 September 1864)
- Augustus Hill Garland (took his seat on 8 November 1864 - Appointed to fill vacancy)

Florida

James McNair Baker X
Augustus Emmet Maxwell X

Georgia

Kentucky

Henry Cornelius Burnett X
William Emmet Simms X

Louisiana

Mississippi

Albert Gallatin Brown X
John William Clark Watson

Missouri

Waldo Porter Johnson X
(vacant caused by the inability of the Missouri legislature to meet and elect a senator)
- George Graham Vest (took his seat on 12 January 1865 - Appointed to fill vacancy)

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

William Simpson Oldham, Sr. X
Louis Trezevant Wigfall X

Virginia

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter X
Allen Taylor Caperton X

House of Representatives[]

Sorted in districts of Election

X: reelected

Alabama

Thomas Jefferson Foster X
William Russell Smith X
Congress refused to seat Representative-elect W. R. W. Cobb, an avowed Unionist; the district was not represented;
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Francis Strother Lyon X
William Parish Chilton, Sr. X
David Clopton X
James L. Pugh X
James Shelton Dickinson

Arkansas

Felix Ives Batson X
Rufus King Garland, Jr.
Augustus Hill Garland X (resigned to become CS-senator 8 November 1864)
- David Williamson Carroll (took his seat on 11 January 1865 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
Thomas Burton Hanly X
Richard Barker (Appointed to fill vacancy)