The 27th Congress opens early, in special session, in Washington, DC

President William Henry Harrison, by an executive order of March 17, 1841, called an early special session of the Twenty-seventh Congress of the United States. By the time that the session opened in Washington, D.C, Harrison was dead and Vice-President John Tyler had succeeded him. Of the 242 representatives, there were 142 Whigs and 98 were Democrats. Two members were Independents. John White, a Whig member for Kentucky was elected Speaker of the House on this first day. (By John Osborne)
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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History."  http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html
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