2nd Confederate States Congress
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; 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 

 President: Alexander H. Stephens
 President pro tempore: R. M. T. Hunter

House 

 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. 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
 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, 1864)
 4. Thomas Burton Hanly X

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

Georgia
 1. Julian Hartridge X
 2. William Ephraim Smith
 3. Mark Harden Blandford
 4. Clifford Anderson
 5. John Troup Shewmake
 6. Joseph Hubbard Echols
 7. James Milton Smith
 8. George Nelson Lester
 9. Hiram Parks Bell
 10. Warren Akin, Sr.

Kentucky
 1. Willis Benson Machen X
 2. George Washington Triplett
 3. Henry English Read X
 4. George Washington Ewing X
 5. James Chrisman X
 6. Theodore Legrand Burnett X
 7. Horatio Washington Bruce X
 8. Humphrey Marshall
 9. Eli Metcalfe Bruce X
 10. James William Moore X
 11. Benjamin Franklin Bradley
 12. John Milton Elliott X

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, 1864)
 6. John Perkins, Jr. X

Mississippi
 1. Jehu Amaziah Orr
 2. William Dunbar Holder X
 3. Israel Victor Welch X
 4. Henry Cousins Chambers X
 5. Otho Robards Singleton X
 6. Ethelbert Barksdale X
 7. John Tillman Lamkin

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. 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 Nathan Harrell 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.) 8. James Graham Ramsay
 9. Burgess Sidney Gaither
 10. George Washington Logan

South Carolina
 1. James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr.
 2. William Porcher Miles X
 3. Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. X
 4. William Dunlap Simpson X
 5. James Farrow X
 6. William Waters Boyce X

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.) 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 
Accounts

 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia, Chairman
 William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
 William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina

Claims

 Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky, Chairman
 James McNair Baker, Florida
 John William Clark Watson, Mississippi — session 2 
 Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
 William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — session 2 

Commerce

 William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas, Chairman
 Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama
 Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida
 William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina
 Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee

Engrossment and Enrollment

 William Theophilus Dortch, North Carolina, Chairman
 Augustus Emmett Maxwell, Florida
 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia
 Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama — session 1
 John William Clark Watson, Mississippi — session 1
 Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky — temporary, session 1
 Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri — temporary, sessions 1 and 2

Finance

 Robert Woodward Barnwell, South Carolina, Chairman
 Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana
 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Virginia
 William Alexander Graham, North Carolina
 Robert Jemison, Jr., Alabama — session 1
 James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina — temporary, session 2
 William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — temporary, session 2 

Foreign Relations

 James Lawrence Orr, South Carolina, Chairman
 William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
 Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas
 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia

Indian Affairs

 Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas, Chairman
 Augustus Emmet Maxwell, Florida
 Waldo Porter Johnson, Missouri
 William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas
 Allen Taylor Caperton, Virginia

Judiciary

 Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia, Chairman
 Richard Wilde Walker, Alabama
 Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Louisiana
 John William Clark Watson, Mississippi
 Landon Carter Haynes, Sr., Tennessee
 William Simpson Oldham, Sr., Texas — temporary, session 2 

Military Affairs

 Edward Sparrow, Louisiana, Chairman
 Robert Ward Johnson, Arkansas
 Henry Cornelius Burnett, Kentucky
 Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr., North Carolina
 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Texas
 Augustus Hill Garland, Arkansas — temporary, session 2

Naval Affairs

 Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi, Chairman
 James McNair Baker, Florida
 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Georgia
 William Emmett Simms, Kentucky
 William Alexander Graham, North Carolina

