1815 Tennessee's 2nd congressional district special election

On September 24, 1815, John Sevier (DR), representative for Tennessee's 2nd district, died in office. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy December 7–8, 1815.[1]

Elections in Tennessee
Government

Election results
Candidate Party Votes[2] Percent
William G. Blount Democratic-Republican 1,583 48.4%
John Cocke Democratic-Republican 1,355 41.5%
George Dougherty 330 10.1%

Blount took office on January 8, 1816[3]

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See also

References
  1. http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/view-election.xq?id=tn.special.congress.2.1815#note_2 Archived January 6, 2013, at Archive.today
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 65
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