Membership Changes
There were no political parties in this Congress. Members are informally grouped into factions of similar interest, based on an analysis of their voting record.
Vermont and Kentucky were newly admitted as states and are first represented in this Congress.
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)