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While the President was important to the purchase of the Louisiana claim from France, it was Congress that approved it and allocated the funds.
President Thomas Jefferson
Vice-President Aaron Burr
8th US Congress
Senate, by state and party (F-Federalist)(DR Democratic-Republican)
- Connecticut
- James Hillhouse (F)
- Uriah Tracy (F)
- Delaware
- William H. Wells (F)
- James A. Bayard (F)
- Samuel White (F)
- Georgia
- Abraham Baldwin (DR)
- James Jackson (DR)
- Kentucky
- John Brown (DR)
- John Breckinridge (DR)
- Maryland
- Robert Wright (DR)
- Samuel Smith (DR)
- Massachusetts
- Timothy Pickering (F)
- John Quincy Adams (F)
- New Hampshire
- Simeon Olcott (F)
- William Plumer (F)
- New Jersey
- Jonathan Dayton (F)
- John Condit (DR)
- New York
- DeWitt Clinton (DR)
- John Armstrong, Jr. (DR)
- John Smith (DR)
- Theodorus Bailey (DR)
- John Armstrong, Jr. (DR)
- Samuel L. Mitchill (DR)
- North Carolina
- Jesse Franklin (DR)
- David Stone (DR)
- Ohio
- John Smith (DR)
- Thomas Worthington (DR)
- Pennsylvania
- George Logan (DR)
- Samuel Maclay (DR)
- Rhode Island
- Christopher Ellery (DR)
- Samuel J. Potter (DR)
- Benjamin Howland (DR)
- South Carolina
- Thomas Sumter (DR)
- Pierce Butler (DR)
- John Gaillard (DR)
- Tennessee
- Joseph Anderson (DR)
- William Cocke (DR)
- Vermont
- Stephen R. Bradley (DR)
- Israel Smith (DR)
- Virginia
- Stevens T. Mason (DR)
- John Taylor (DR)
- Abraham B. Venable (DR)
- William B. Giles (DR)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- Wilson C. Nicholas (DR)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- William B. Giles (DR)
- John G. Jackson (DR)
- James Stephenson (F)
- John Smith (DR)
- David Holmes (DR)
- Thomas Lewis, Jr. (F)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- Alexander Wilson (DR)
- Abram Trigg (DR)
- Joseph Lewis, Jr. (F)
- Walter Jones (DR)
- Philip R. Thompson (DR)
- John Dawson (DR)
- Anthony New (DR)
- Thomas Griffin (F)
- John J. Trigg (DR)
- Christopher H. Clark (DR)
- Matthew Clay (DR)
- John Randolph (DR)
- John W. Eppes (DR)
- Thomas Claiborne (DR)
- Peterson Goodwyn (DR)
- Edwin Gray (DR)
- Thomas Newton, Jr. (DR)
- Thomas M. Randolph (DR)
- John Clopton (DR)
House of Representatives
- Connecticut
- Simeon Baldwin (F)
- Samuel W. Dana (F)
- John Davenport (F)
- Calvin Goddard (F)
- Roger Griswold (F)
- John Cotton Smith (F)
- Benjamin Tallmadge (F)
- Delaware
- Caesar A. Rodney (DR)
- Georgia
- Joseph Bryan (DR)
- Peter Early (DR)
- Samuel Hammond (DR)
- David Meriwether (DR)
- Kentucky
- Matthew Lyon (DR)
- John Boyle (DR)
- Matthew Walton (DR)
- Thomas Sandford (DR)
- John Fowler (DR)
- George M. Bedinger (DR)
- Maryland
- John Campbell (F)
- Walter Bowie (DR)
- Thomas Plater (F)
- Daniel Hiester (DR)
- Roger Nelson (DR)
- William McCreery (DR)
- Nicholas R. Moore (DR)
- John Archer (DR)
- Joseph H. Nicholson (DR)
- John Dennis (F)
- Massachusetts
- William Eustis (DR)
- Jacob Crowninshield (DR)
- Manasseh Cutler (F)
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR)
- Thomas Dwight (F)
- Samuel Taggart (F)
- Nahum Mitchell (F)
- Lemuel Williams (F)
- Phanuel Bishop (DR)
- Seth Hastings (F)
- William Stedman (F)
- Thomson J. Skinner (DR)
- Simon Larned (DR)
- Ebenezer Seaver (DR)
- Richard Cutts (DR)
- Peleg Wadsworth (F)
- Samuel Thatcher (F)
- Phineas Bruce (F)
- New Hampshire
- Silas Betton (F)
- Clifton Clagett (F)
- David Hough (F)
- Samuel Hunt (F)
- Samuel Tenney (F)
- New Jersey
- Adam Boyd (DR)
- Ebenezer Elmer (DR)
- William Helms (DR)
- James Mott (DR)
- James Sloan (DR)
- Henry Southard (DR)
- New York
- John Smith (DR)
- Samuel Riker (DR)
- Joshua Sands (F)
- Samuel L. Mitchill (DR)
- George Clinton, Jr. (DR)
- Philip Van Cortlandt (DR)
- Andrew McCord (DR)
- Isaac Bloom (DR)
- Daniel C. Verplanck (DR)
- Josiah Hasbrouck (DR)
- Henry W. Livingston (F)
- Killian K. Van Rensselaer (F)
- George Tibbits (F)
- Beriah Palmer (DR)
- David Thomas (DR)
- Thomas Sammons (DR)
- Erastus Root (DR)
- Gaylord Griswold (F)
- John Patterson (DR)
- Oliver Phelps (DR)
- North Carolina
- Thomas Wynns (DR)
- Willis Alston (DR)
- William Kennedy (DR)
- William Blackledge (DR)
- James Gillespie (DR)
- Nathaniel Macon (DR)
- Samuel D. Purviance (F)
- Richard Stanford (DR)
- Marmaduke Williams (DR)
- Nathaniel Alexander (DR)
- James Holland (DR)
- Joseph Winston (DR)
- Ohio
- Jeremiah Morrow (DR)
- Pennsylvania
- Joseph Clay (DR)
- Michael Leib (DR)
- Jacob Richards (DR)
- Robert Brown (DR)
- Frederick Conrad (DR)
- Isaac Van Horne (DR)
- Isaac Anderson (DR)
- Joseph Hiester (DR)
- John Whitehill (DR)
- David Bard (DR)
- John A. Hanna (DR)
- Andrew Gregg (DR)
- John Stewart (DR)
- John Rea (DR)
- William Findley (DR)
- John Smilie (DR)
- William Hoge (DR)
- John Hoge (DR)
- John B. C. Lucas (DR)
- Rhode Island
- Nehemiah Knight (DR)
- Joseph Stanton, Jr. (DR)
- South Carolina
- Thomas Lowndes (F)
- William Butler, Sr. (DR)
- Benjamin Huger (F)
- Wade Hampton (DR)
- Richard Winn (DR)
- Levi Casey (DR)
- Thomas Moore (DR)
- John B. Earle (DR)
- Tennessee
- George W. Campbell (DR)
- William Dickson (DR)
- John Rhea (DR)
- Vermont
- Gideon Olin (DR)
- James Elliott (F)
- William Chamberlain (F)
- Martin Chittenden (F)
- Virginia
- Stevens T. Mason (DR)
- John Taylor (DR)
- Abraham B. Venable (DR)
- William B. Giles (DR)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- Wilson C. Nicholas (DR)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- William B. Giles (DR)
- John G. Jackson (DR)
- James Stephenson (F)
- John Smith (DR)
- David Holmes (DR)
- Thomas Lewis, Jr. (F)
- Andrew Moore (DR)
- Alexander Wilson (DR)
- Abram Trigg (DR)
- Joseph Lewis, Jr. (F)
- Walter Jones (DR)
- Philip R. Thompson (DR)
- John Dawson (DR)
- Anthony New (DR)
- Thomas Griffin (F)
- John J. Trigg (DR)
- Christopher H. Clark (DR)
- Matthew Clay (DR)
- John Randolph (DR)
- John W. Eppes (DR)
- Thomas Claiborne (DR)
- Peterson Goodwyn (DR)
- Edwin Gray (DR)
- Thomas Newton, Jr. (DR)
- Thomas M. Randolph (DR)
- John Clopton (DR)
- Mississippi Territory, Non-voting member
- William Lattimore
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