5th Illinois General Assembly

5th Illinois General Assembly
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	State Senate and House of Representatives
History
Preceded by	4th Illinois General Assembly
Succeeded by	6th Illinois General Assembly
Leadership
President of the Senate	William Kinney, Independent
Speaker of the House of Representatives	John McLean, Independent
Seats	18 Senators 36 Representatives [1]
Meeting place
Vandalia, Illinois

The 5th Illinois General Assembly, consisting of the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives, met from December 4, 1826, to February 19, 1827, ^[1] at The Vandalia State House. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the provisions of the First Illinois Constitution. Political parties were not established in Illinois at the time.

The 5th General Assembly was preceded by the 4th Illinois General Assembly, and was succeeded by the 6th Illinois General Assembly.

Members

Senators and Representatives were both allotted to counties roughly by population and elected at-large within their districts. Bond and Montgomery counties shared a single senator.

Map of Illinois county boundaries in 1825

Map of Illinois county boundaries in 1826

Senate

County (-ies) represented [1]	Image	Senator	Term	Remarks
Bond · Montgomery		Francis Kirkpatrick	1824 [2]
Clark · Crawford · Edgar · Lawrence · Vermilion		William B. Archer	1826–1830	Apportionment in 1826 provided that Clark and Edgar counties should unite with Lawrence and Crawford counties to elect a senator in 1826. After 1828, Archer was to only represent the district in which he resided (Clark County) while the other district was to elect a new senator. [3]
Edwards		Stephen Bliss	1824 [4]
Gallatin		Timothy Guard	1826–1830
Greene		Thomas Carlin	1824 [5]
Jackson		Joseph Duncan	1824 [6]	Resigned February 19, 1827 [1]
Jefferson		Zadok Casey	1826 [5]
Johnson		John Ewing	1824 [7]
Madison		Joseph Conway	1824 [5]
Monroe		Joseph A. Beaird †	1822 [4]
Morgan		Archibald Job	1826 [8]
Pope		Samuel Alexander	1820 [9]
Randolph		Raphael Widen	1824 [10]
Sangamon		Elijah Iles	1826 [8]
St. Clair		James Lemen Jr.	1822 [11]
Union		George Hunsacker	1826 [8]
Wayne · Lawrence		James Bird	1824–1828
White		Daniel Hay	1824 [12]

House of Representatives

Seats in County	Counties represented [1]	Image	Representative	Remarks
2	Clark		John Alexander
			Charles Ives
1	Crawford		John C. Alexander
1	Edwards		Henry I. Mills
2	Fayette		William Berry
			Robert K. McLaughlin
1	Franklin		Thomas M. Dorris
2	Gallatin		John McLean
			Francis Prince
2	Greene		John Allen
			Alfred W. Cavarly
1	Hamilton		James Hall
1	Jackson		Conrad Will
1	Jefferson		Nicholas Wren
1	Lawrence		Samuel H. Clubb
2	Madison		George Churchill
			David Prickett
1	Monroe		Thomas James
2	Morgan		John Leeper
			John Lieb
1	Pike		Henry J. Ross
1	Pope		William Sims
2	Randolph		John Lacy
			Thomas Reynolds
3	Sangamon		Job Fletcher
			Mordecai Mobley
			Jonathan H. Pugh
2	St. Clair		David Blackwell
			John Reynolds
2	Union		Benjamin W. Brooks
			Alexander P. Field
1	Wabash		Henry Utter
1	Washington		Charles Slade
1	Wayne		William B. Davis
2	White		William McHenry
			John Ridgway

Employees

Senate

• Secretary: Emanuel J. West
• Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk: A.F. Grant
• Sergeant at Arms: Joseph Chance

House of Representatives

• Clerk: William Lee D. Ewing
• Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk: H. Roundtree
• Doorkeeper: Bowling Green

See also

• List of Illinois state legislatures

Works cited

• Moses, John (1892). Illinois, historical and statistical.
• Blue Book of the State of Illinois. 1919.
• Pease, Theodore Calvin (1923). Statistical Series: Illinois Election Returns (1818-1848) (PDF). Vol. 1. Illinois State Historical Library.

References

1. Illinois Blue Book 1919, p. 526.
2. Moses 1892, p. 1175.
3. Pease, p. 219, footnote p. 221
4. Moses 1892, p. 1164.
5. Moses 1892, p. 1166.
6. Moses 1892, p. 1169.
7. Moses 1892, p. 1170.
8. Moses 1892, p. 1174.
9. Moses 1892, p. 1163.
10. Moses 1892, p. 1188.
11. Moses 1892, p. 1176.
12. Moses 1892, p. 1173.