*Party division totals are based on election day results.
/tiles/non-collection/H/HouseChamberSeatingChart_2012_052_002ab.xmlCollection of the U.S. House of Representatives About this objectAn 1820 seating chart from The Analectic Magazine provides a map to the House Chamber filled with Constantine Desks.
Missouri statehood continued to monopolize the energies of the 16th Congress (1819–1821). The first session hammered out the Missouri Compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and codified Missouri’s southern boundary as the designating line between free and slave territories. In the second session, Henry Clay of Kentucky put the final touches on the Missouri Compromise after he convinced the territory’s officials to remove an offending clause in Missouri’s constitution which would have excluded all African Americans—whether slave or free—from residing in the state.
The March 1820 edition of The Analectic Magazine published this floor plan of the recently-opened House Chamber, along with a key indicating which Member sat where. It also contained the locations of building …