Seated December 13, 1852 |- | | | Alexander H. Buell (D) | Died January 29, 1853 | Vacant | Not filled this term |} Committees Lists of committees and their party leaders. Senate Agriculture (Chairman: Pierre Soule) Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Augustus Dodge) Claims (Chairman: Richard Brodhead) Commerce (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin) Contested Election of 1850 (Chairman: N/A) Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select) District of Columbia (Chairman: James Shields) Emigrant Route and Telegraphic Line to California (Select) Ether Discovery (Select) Finance (Chairman: Robert M.T. Hunter) Foreign Relations (Chairman: James M. Mason) French Spoilations (Select) Indian Affairs (Chairman: David R. Atchison) Judiciary (Chairman: Andrew P. Butler) Manufactures (Chairman: William K. Sebastian) Library (Chairman: James A. Pearce) Mexican Boundary (Select) Mexican Boundary Commission (Select) Mexican Claims Commission (Select) Military Affairs (Chairman: James Shields) Militia (Chairman: Sam Houston) Naval Affairs (Chairman: William M. Gwin) Ordnance and War Ships (Select) Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Moses Norris Jr. and Charles T. James) Pensions (Chairman: George Wallace Jones) Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Thomas J. Rusk) Printing (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin) Private Land Claims (Chairman: Solomon W. Downs) Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: James Whitcomb) Public Lands (Chairman: Alpheus Felch) Purchase of Catlin's Collection of Indian Scenes (Select) Retrenchment (Chairman: James W. Bradbury) Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Issac P. Walker) Roads and Canals (Chairman: Jesse D. Bright) Tariff Regulation (Select) Territories (Chairman: Stephen A. Douglas) Seventh Census (Select) Whole House of Representatives Accounts (Chairman: John C. Mason) Agriculture (Chairman: John G. Floyd) Bounty Land Act of 1850 (Select) Bounty Land Bill (Chairman: Cyrus L. Dunham) Claims (Chairman: John Reeves Jones Daniel) Commerce (Chairman: David L. Seymour) District of Columbia (Chairman: Orlando B. Ficklin) Elections (Chairman: William S. Ashe) Engraving (Chairman: Edward Hammond) Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Fayette McMullen) Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Alexander G. Penn) Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Charles E. Stuart) Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Benjamin B. Thurston) Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Milo M. Dimmick) Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Thomas Bartlett Jr.) Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas H. Bayly) Indian Affairs (Chairman: Robert W. Johnson) Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Isham G. Harris) Judiciary (Chairman: James X. McLanahan) Manufactures (Chairman: James M.H. Beale) Mileage (Chairman: Thomas A. Hendricks) Military Affairs (Chairman: William H. Bissell) Militia (Chairman: Charles H. Peaslee) Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick P. Stanton) Patents (Chairman: