MEMBER OF CONGRESS The first session of the fourth Congress began at Philadelphia on Monday, December 7, 1795.

Washington was president, John Adams vice-president.

No one of Washington's original constitutional advisers remained in his cabinet.

Jefferson retired from the State Department at the beginning of the first session of the third Congress.

Edmund Randolph, appointed in his place, resigned in a cloud of obloquy on August 19, 1795, and the portfolio was temporarily in charge of Timothy Pickering, secretary of war.