This is a proposed list of people who served in the U.S. Congress who enslaved some of their workers or "owned slaves".
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| Name | State | Congr. district | First year in Congress | Last year in Congress | Congresses served in (numbers) | Notes on identity | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Anderson (Pennsylvania) | PA | 1st | 1809 | 1819 | 11 – 13, 15 | Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania | [1] |
| John C. Breckinridge | KY | 8th, Senator |
1851 | 1861 | 32, 33, 37 |
U.S. vice president | [2] |
| Aaron Burr | NY | Senator | 1791 | 1797 | 2 – 4 | U.S. vice president | [3] |
| John C. Calhoun | SC | 6th, Senator |
1810 | 1850 | 13 – 15 22 – 31 |
U.S. vice president | [4] |
| William Henry Harrison | OH | 1st, Senator |
1816 | 1828 | 14, 15 19, 20 |
U.S. president | [5] |
| Andrew Jackson | TN | At-large Senator |
1796 | 1823 | 4, 5, 18, 19 |
U.S. president | [5] |
| Andrew Johnson | TN | 1st, Senator |
1843 | 1877 | 28 – 32 25 – 37, 44 |
U.S. president | [5] |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | KY | 3rd, 4th, 5th, 13th Senator |
1806 | 1835 | 10 – 15, 21 – 24 16 – 20 |
U.S. vice president | [6] |
| William R. King | NC AL |
5th Senator |
1810 | 1852 | 12 – 14 16 – 32 |
U.S. vice president | [7] |
| James Madison | VA | 5th, 15th | 1789 | 1797 | 1 – 4 | U.S. president | [5] |
| James Monroe | VA | Senator | 1790 | 1794 | 1, 2 | U.S. president | [5] |
| James K. Polk | TN | 6th, 9th | 1825 | 1837 | 19 – 25 | U.S. president | [5] |
| John Tyler | VA | 23rd, Senator |
1816 | 1836 | 14 – 16 20 – 24 |
U.S. president | [5] |
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| Martin Van Buren | NY | Senator | 1821 | 1828 | 17 – 20 | U.S. president | [5] |
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Incomplete list edit
- |AL | 2nd | 1851 | 1855| 32nd - 33rd |
- |William Jeffreys Alston
- |AL | |1849 |1851 | 31st|
- |Arthur Pendleton Bagby
- |AL | Senator | 1841 | 1848 |27th - 30th
- Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor
- | Dec. 6, 1829 Mar. 2, 1831 21st
- |James Edwin Belser
- | Mar. 3, 1843 Mar. 2, 1845 28th
- Taul Bradford
- | Mar. 4, 1875 Mar. 3, 1877 44th
- John Bragg
- |Ala. Mar. 3, 1851 Mar. 2, 1853 32nd
- |Reuben Chapman
- |Ala. Dec. 6, 1835 Mar. 2, 1847 24th - 29th
- |Clement Claiborne Clay Jr.
- |AL |Senator | Mar. 3, 1853 Jan. 20, 1861 33rd - 36th
Sen.Clement Comer Clay Ala. Dec. 6, 1829 Nov. 14, 1841 21st - 23rd, 25th - 27th Rep.Newton Nash Clements Ala. Mar. 17, 1879 Mar. 2, 1881 46th Rep.David Clopton Ala. Mar. 3, 1859 Jan. 20, 1861 36th Rep.Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Ala. Mar. 3, 1847 Jan. 29, 1861 30th - 36th Rep.James La Fayette Cottrell
- ^ Ashmead, Henry Graham; Hungerford, Austin N. (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Cornell University Library. Philadelphia, L. H. Everts & co.
- ^ Klotter, James C. (1986). The Breckinridges of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. p.43
- ^ Burr, Sherri. "Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his Abolitionist Son". slavery.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Mosso, Kate (May 16, 2019). "Downtown Charleston protest over statue of slave owner, former Vice President gets heated". WCIV (ABCNews4).
- ^ a b c d e f g h Whitney, Gleaves. "Slaveholding Presidents". Ask Gleaves. Grand Valley State University. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ Shafer, Ronald G. (February 7, 2021). "He became the nation's ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife". Washington Post.
- ^ slave owner and quite possibly gay, Alabama's William Rufus King was country's 13th VP