State: | Kansas Territory |
District Number: | AL |
Member Type: | Delegate |
Representative: | N/A |
Obsolete: | yes |
Created: | 1854 |
Custom Created: | as a non-voting delegate was granted by Congress |
Eliminated: | 1861 |
Statehood Eliminated: | yes |
Years: | 1854–1861 |
From the 33rd Congress through the 36th Congress, Kansas Territory elected a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives.[1]
Delegate | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history | ||||
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align=left | John Wilkins Whitfield | Democratic | nowrap | December 20, 1854 – August 1, 1856 | Elected in 1854. Elected in 1855. Seat was declared vacant. | |||
Vacant | nowrap | August 2, 1856 – December 8, 1856 | ||||||
align=left | John Wilkins Whitfield | Democratic | nowrap | December 9, 1856 – March 3, 1857 | Elected to finish his own term.[2] Retired. | |||
align=left | Marcus Junius Parrott | Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1857 – January 29, 1861 | Elected in 1856 or 1857.[3] Re-elected in 1858 or 1859.[4] Kansas admitted as a state. |