2nd Confederate States Congress

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| name = 2nd Confederate States Congress

| coa_pic = Seal of the Confederate States of America.svg

| coa_alt = Equestrian portrait of Washington (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the capitol square, at Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice,) and having around its margin the words: "The Confederate States of America, twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," with the following motto: "Deo vindice"

| coa_caption = Seal of the Confederate States

| logo_pic = Flag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg{{!}}border

| logo_caption = {{nowrap|Flag of the Confederate States (1865)}}

| house_type = Bicameral

| houses = Senate
House of Representatives

| foundation = {{Start date|1864|5|2}}

| disbanded = {{End date|1865|3|18}}

| preceded_by = 1st

| leader1_type = Senate President

| leader1 = Alexander H. Stephens

| leader2_type = Senate Pres. pro tem:

| leader2 = R. M. T. Hunter

| leader3_type = House Speaker:

| leader3 = Thomas S. Bocock

| session_room = Virginia Capitol 1865.jpg

| session_res = 250px

| session_alt = Second Capitol of the Confederate States (1861–1865)

| meeting_place = {{br separated entries |Virginia State Capitol |Richmond, Virginia |Confederate States of America}}

| constitution = Constitution of the Confederate States

}}

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;Historical Atlas ..., pp. 135-138 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 =

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| image1 = Alexander H Stephens by Vannerson, 1859.jpg

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| header = President pro tempore

| image1 = Robert M. T. Hunter c1865 (cropped).jpg

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| alt1 = R. M. T. Hunter

| caption1 = R. M. T. Hunter

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= House =

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| image1 = Thomas S. Bocock (cropped).jpg

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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.Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States and Confederate Senate Journal

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
Thomas Samuel Ashe (elected to succeed Dortch in 1866 on December 3, 1864— never seated){{Cite news |date=December 9, 1864 |editor-last=Holden |editor-first=William W. |title=Confederate State's Senator |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/168075869/?match=1&terms=%22Mr.%20Ashe%22%20senate |work=Semi-Weekly Standard |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |pages=1}}
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, 1864Historical Atlas ..., p. 135)
4. Thomas Burton Hanly X

Florida

1. Samuel St. George Rogers
2. Robert Benjamin Hilton X

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana

1. Charles Jacques Villeré X
2. Charles Magill Conrad X
3. Duncan Farrar Kenner X
4. Lucius Jacques Dupré X
5. Benjamin Lewis Hodge (died August 12, 1864)
Henry Gray (took his seat on December 28, 1864 – Elected to fill vacancy October 17, 1864Historical Atlas ..., p. 136)
6. John Perkins Jr. X

Mississippi

Missouri

:In Confederate law, the people of Missouri were entitled to elect thirteen representatives. The state never implemented the reapportionment and continued to use its existing seven districts.Historical Atlas ... p. 20 and p. 128

1. Thomas Lowndes Snead
2. Nimrod Lindsay Norton
3. John Bullock Clark Sr.
4. Aaron H. Conrow X
5. George Graham Vest X (resigned January 12, 1865 to become CS senator)
6. Peter Singleton Wilkes
7. Robert Anthony Hatcher

North Carolina

1. William N. H. Smith X
2. Robert Rufus Bridgers X
3. James Thomas Leach
4. Thomas Charles Fuller
5. Josiah Turner
6. John Adams Gilmer
7. James Madison Leach (Representative-elect Samuel H. Christian died, in March 1864, before taking his seat. Leach was elected April 21, 1864.Historical Atlas ... p. 137 and notes p. 139)
8. James Graham Ramsay
9. Burgess Sidney Gaither
10. George Washington Logan

South Carolina

Tennessee

1. Joseph Brown Heiskell X
2. William Graham Swan X
3. Arthur St. Clair Colyar
4. John Porry Murray
5. Henry Stuart Foote X (fled to Canada before completing term)
6. Edwin Augustus Keebel
7. James McCallum
8. Thomas Menees X
9. John DeWitt Clinton Atkins X
10. John Vines Wright X
11. Michael Walsh Cluskey (Representative-elect David Maney Currin died, on March 25, 1864, before taking his seat. Cluskey was elected thereafter.Historical Atlas ... p. 137 and notes p. 140)

Texas

1. Stephen Heard Darden (Representative-elect John Allen Wilcox died, on February 7, 1864, before taking his seat. Darden was elected August 1864.)
2. Caleb Claiborne Herbert X
3. Anthony Martin Branch
4. Franklin Barlow Sexton X
5. John Robert Baylor
6. Simpson Harris Morgan

Virginia

1. Robert Latane Montague
2. Robert Henry Whitfield (resigned March 2, 1865)
3. Williams Carter Wickham
4. Thomas Saunders Gholson
5. Thomas Stanley Bocock X
6. John Goode Jr. X
7. William Cabell Rives (resigned March 7, 1865)
8. Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. X
9. David Funsten X
10. Frederick William Mackey Holliday
11. John Brown Baldwin X
12. Waller Redd Staples X
13. LaFayette McMullen
14. Samuel Augustine Miller X
15. Robert Johnston X
16. Charles Wells Russell X

= Delegates =

Non-voting members of the House of Representatives.

Arizona Territory

Marcus H. MacWillie X

Cherokee Nation

Elias Cornelius Boudinot X

Creek and Seminole Nations

Samuel Benton Callahan

Senate committees

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