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Provisional Confederate Congress

The Provisional Confederate Congress, for a time the legislative branch of the Confederate States of America, was the body which drafted the Confederate Constitution, elected Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy, and designed the first Confederate flag. Unlike the later bicameral Confederate Congress, the Provisional Congress consisted of only one house and its members were referred to as deputies and delegates.

Sessions
Leadership
Members

Deputies
Delegates

See also

Sessions

First Session 4 February 1861 - 16 March 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama
Second Session 29 April 1861 - 21 May 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama
Third Session 20 July 1861 - 31 August 1861 in Richmond, Virginia
Fourth Session 3 September 1861 (called) in Richmond, Virginia
Fifth Session 18 November 1861 - 17 February 1862 in Richmond, Virginia

Leadership

President of the Provisional Congress

Howell Cobb, Sr. of Georgia - 4 February, 1861-17 February, 1862

President pro tempore

Robert Woodward Barnwell of South Carolina - February 4, 1861
Thomas Stanley Bocock of Virginia - December 10-21, 1861 and January 7-8, 1862
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell of Mississippi - December 23-24, 1861 and January 6, 1862

Members

Deputies

Deputies from the first seven states to secede formed the first two sessions of the Congress.

Alabama

William Parish Chilton, Sr.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
Thomas Fearn (resigned 16 March 1861 after first Session)
- Nicholas Davis, Jr. (took his seat on 29 April 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy)
Stephen Fowler Hale
David Peter Lewis (resigned 16 March 1861 after first Session)
- Henry Cox Jones (took his seat on 29 April 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy)
Colin John McRae
John Gill Shorter (resigned November 1861)
- Cornelius Robinson (took his seat on 29 April 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy; resigned 24 January 1862)
Robert Hardy Smith
Richard Wilde Walker

Florida

James Patton Anderson (resigned 8 April 1861)
- George Taliaferro Ward (took his seat on 2 May 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy; resigned 5 February 1862)
- John Pease Sanderson (took his seat on 5 February 1862 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
Jackson Morton
James Byeram Owens

Georgia

Francis Stebbins Bartow (killed 21 July 1861 at the First Battle of Bull Run)
- Thomas Marsh Forman (took his seat on 7 August 1861 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
Howell Cobb, Sr.
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Martin Jenkins Crawford
Benjamin Harvey Hill
Augustus Holmes Kenan
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (resigned 10 December 1861)
- Nathan Henry Bass, Sr. (took his seat on 14 January 1862 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Robert Augustus Toombs
Augustus Romaldus Wright

Louisiana

Mississippi

William Taylor Sullivan Barry
Walker Brooke
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell
Alexander Mosby Clayton (resigned 11 May 1861)
- Alexander Blackburn Bradford (took his seat on 5 December 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy)
Wiley Pope Harris
James Thomas Harrison
William Sydney Wilson (resigned 16 March 1861 after first session)
- Jehu Amaziah Orr (took his seat on 29 April 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy)

South Carolina

Robert Woodward Barnwell
William Waters Boyce
James Chesnut, Jr.
Laurence Massillon Keitt
Christopher Gustavus Memminger
William Porcher Miles
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr.
Thomas Jefferson Withers (resigned 21 May 1861 after second session)
- James Lawrence Orr (took his seat on 17 February 1862 - Appointed to fill vacancy)

Texas

Delegates

Representatives from states to secede after the Battle of Fort Sumter were referred to as delegates, in contrast to the deputies from the original seven states.

Arkansas

Kentucky