2nd Confederate States Congress

2nd Confederate States Congress
Seal of the Confederate States
Flag of the Confederate States (1865)
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate House of Representatives
History
Founded	May 2, 1864 (1864-05-02)
Disbanded	March 18, 1865 (1865-03-18)
Preceded by	1st
Leadership
Senate President	Alexander H. Stephens
Senate Pres. pro tem:	R. M. T. Hunter
House Speaker:	Thomas S. Bocock
Meeting place
Virginia State Capitol Richmond, Virginia Confederate States of America
Constitution
Constitution of the Confederate States

The 2nd Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia;^[1] the Confederacy's government effectively dissolved 16 days later, when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865. Its members were elected in the 1863 congressional elections.