1818 Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district special election
On April 20, 1818,[1] Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he'd represented Pennsylvania's 4th district. A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.[2]
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Election results
Candidate | Party | Votes[3][4] | Percent |
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Jacob Hostetter | Democratic-Republican | 771 | 49.7% |
Samuel Bacon | Democratic-Republican | 693 | 44.7% |
John Clark | [5] | 88 | 5.7% |
Hostetter took his seat on November 16[6] at the start of the Second Session.
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References
- "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 44
- The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that's over a month before Spangler resigned.
- http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201816.pdf
- "Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
- Source did not give party affiliation
- "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov., footnote 45
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