Senate Executive Journal
The Senate Executive Journal is a separate record of its executive proceedings from 1789-1875.
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From its inaugural session, in addition to its legislative journal, the Senate has maintained a separate record of its executive proceedings that relate to its functions of confirming presidential nominees and consenting to the making of treaties. The Senate Executive Journal was not made public until 1828, when the Senate decided to print and publish the proceedings for all the previous Congresses and thereafter to publish the journal for each session at its close.
Like the House and Senate legislative journals, the Senate Executive Journal progressed in form from daily handwritten notes to a rewritten clean copy, which in turn was set into print. In early sessions, the entries are much shorter than those in the legislative journal and so each printed volume covers many more Congresses.
A special feature in volume 1 of the Senate Executive Journal is a seven-page list entitled An Alphabetical List of the Senators of the United States From the commencement of the Government to the termination of the 19th Congress.
This collection is available in PDF on Congress.gov on the Browse pages under Congressional Activity:
- 1st Congress
- 2nd Congress
- 3rd Congress
- 4th Congress
- 5th Congress
- 6th Congress
- 7th Congress
- 8th Congress
- 9th Congress
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- 11th Congress
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- 17th Congress
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- 20th Congress
- 21st Congress
- 22nd Congress
- 23rd Congress
- 24th Congress
- 25th Congress
- 26th Congress
- 27th Congress
- 28th Congress
- 29th Congress
- 30th Congress
- 31st Congress
- 32nd Congress
- 33rd Congress
- 34th Congress
- 35th Congress
- 36th Congress
- 37th Congress