The Only 5 Congressmen Expelled From The House Of Representatives Before George Santos

John Bullock Clark had already served in the U.S. House of Representatives for one term before the Civil War broke out in April 1861, according to “More Generals in Gray.” He held the rank of brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard, a Confederate militia, and after being wounded in battle became a member of the Confederate States Congress as a representative and later as a senator. After the war, he again ran for the U.S. Congress but lost out to his son.

John Reid and Henry Burnett also actively served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Reid, another Democrat from Missouri, had already stepped down from his role as a representative by the time his fellow Congressmen ousted him. He served in the Confederate Army as a general’s volunteer aide, fought in the Confederate Army, and was a senator for Kentucky in the Confederate States Congress.