1809 Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district special election
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A special election was held in Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district on October 10, 1809, to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Representative Benjamin Say (DR) in June of that year. Say himself had been elected in a special election the previous year. He thus spent a little under a year in Congress, serving in the second session of the 10th Congress[1] and the first session of the 11th Congress.[2]
Election results[]
Candidate | Party | Votes[3] | Percent |
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Adam Seybert | Democratic-Republican | 5,936 | 59.5% |
Richard R. Smith | American-Republican | 4,043 | 40.5% |
Seybert took his seat November 27, 1809, at the start of the second session of the 11th Congress[2]
See also[]
- List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References[]
- ^ 10th Congress membership roster Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b 11th Congress membership roster Archived 2012-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 11th Congress election results in Pennsylvania
Categories:
- Special elections to the 11th United States Congress
- United States House of Representatives special elections
- United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania
- 1809 United States House of Representatives elections
- 1809 Pennsylvania elections
- Pennsylvania special elections