1815_Pennsylvania's_3rd_congressional_district_special_election Knowpia

On July 2, 1815, Representative-elect Amos Ellmaker (DR) of Pennsylvania's 3rd district resigned after being appointed and commissioned president judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylkill, and before the 14th Congress' first session began. A special election was held on October 10, 1815 to fill the vacancy left by his resignation.

Election results edit

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
James M. Wallace	Democratic-Republican	5,016	55.4%
Phillip Gloninger	Federalist	4,031	44.6%

Wallace took his seat on December 4, 1815^[2] at the start of the 1st session of the 14th Congress.

References edit

^ Cox, Harold E. (January 13, 2007). "14th Congress 1815–1817" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.
^ "Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015. footnote 54

[1] Cox, Harold E. (January 13, 2007). "14th Congress 1815–1817" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.

[2] "Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015. footnote 54

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