Article I, section 5, of the United States Constitution gives each house of Congress power to judge the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and to punish members for “disorderly behavior.” Between 1793 and 1990, more than 200 senators faced challenges to their credentials based on their qualifications for office and alleged irregularities in their elections; or discipline for offenses ranging from public corruption, to giving aid and comfort to the Confederacy, to bringing dishonor upon the Senate in myriad other ways, or for pure political spite. As researched and written by staff of the Congressional Research Service, these are their stories. The arc of the book, each case told in chronological order, traces not only the tenor and politics of the times, but the evolution of the Senate’s own thinking about what it means to be a United States Senator. – Summary by Joanne Turner.
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Introduction. I. Elections: Election laws, Senate election procedures and committees; types of election cases
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Introduction. II. Discipline: Procedures, laws, and committees; types of disciplinary cases
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Case Albert Gallatin (PA) (1793-94)
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Kensey Johns (DE) (1794)
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Humphrey Marshall (KY) (1796)
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William Blount and William Cocke (TN) (1796)
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William Blount (TN) (1797)
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Uriah Tracy (CT) (1801)
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John Smith (OH) (1807-08)
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Samuel Smith (MD) (1809)
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Stanley Griswold (OH) (1809)
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Timothy Pickering (MA) (1810-11)
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Jesse Bledsoe (KY) (1815)
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James Lanman (CT) (1825)
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Ephraim Bateman (NJ) (1827-28)
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Elisha R. Potter v. Asher Robbins (RI) (1833-34)
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George Poindexter (MS) (1835)
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Ambrose H. Sevier (AR) (1837)
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John Ruggles (ME) (1838)
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Benjamin Tapper (OH) 1844
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John M. Niles (CT) 1844
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John M. Clayton (DE); Spencer Jarnagin (TN); Walter T. Colquitt (GA) 1846
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James Shields (IL) 1849
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Thomas Hart Benton (MO) and Henry S. Foote (MS) 1850
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Robert C. Winthrop (MA) 1851
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David Yulee v. Stephen Mallory (FL) 1851-52
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Archibald Dixon (KY) 1852
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Samuel Phelps (VT) 1854
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Jared Williams (NH) 1854
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Lyman Trumbull (IL) 1855-56
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James Harlan (IA) 1855-57
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Henry Lane v. Jesse Bright; William McCarty v. Graham Fitch (IN) 1857-59
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Simon Cameron (PA) 1857
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James Shields (MN) 1858
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Henry Mower Rice (MN) 1858
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Clement Clay (AL); Robert Toombs (GA); Jefferson Davis & Albert Brown (MS); Stephen Mallory (FL); Judah Benjamin (LA) 1861
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Frederick Stanton v. James Lane (KS) 1861-62
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James Mason & Robert Hunter (VA); Thomas Clingman & Thomas Bragg (NC); James Chesnut, Jr. (SC); AOP Nicholson (TN); William Sebastian (AR); Charles Mitchel (AR); John Hemphill & Louis Wigfall (TX) 1861
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Waitman Willey & John Carlisle (VA) 1861
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John Breckinridge (KY) 1861
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Waldo Johnson & Trusten Polk (MO) 1861-62
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Jesse Bright (IN) 1861-62
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Benjamin Stark (OR) 1862
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Lazarus Powell (KY) 1862
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James F. Simmons (RI) 1862
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William Fishback; Elisha Baxter; William Snow (AR) 1864-66
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R. King Cutler & Charles Smith; Michael Hahn (LA) 1864-66
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Joseph Segar & John Underwood (VA) 1865
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John Stockton (NJ) 1865-66
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David Patterson (TN) 1866
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Phillip Thomas (MD) 1867-68
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John Jones & Augustus Garland; Alexander McDonald & Benjamin Rice (AR) 1868
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William Marvin v. Thomas Osborn (FL) 1868
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Richard Whiteley & Henry Farrow v. Joshua Hill & H.V.M. Miller (GA) 1868-71
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Adelbert Ames (MS) 1870
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Hiram Revels (MS) 1870
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Ossian Hart v. Abijah Gilbert (FL) 1870
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George Goldthwaite (AL) 1871-72
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Thomas Norwood v. Foster Blodgett Jr (GA) 1871
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Joseph Reynolds v. Morgan Hamilton (TX) 1871
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Joseph Abbott v. Zebulon Vance & Matt Ransom (NC) 1871-72
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Powell Clayton (AR) 1872-73
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Samuel Pomoroy & Alexander Caldwell (KS) 1872-73
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Francis Sykes v. George Spencer (AL) 1872-76
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Ray v. McMillen; McMillen, Eustis & Marr v. Pinchback; Spofford & Manning v. Kellogg (LA) 1873-80
