1817 New York's 4th congressional district special election

On September 16, 1816,[1] Representative-elect Henry B. Lee (DR) of New York's 4th district died before the start of the 15th Congress, to which he'd been elected. A special election was held prior to the beginning of the first session of Congress to fill the resulting vacancy.

Special election

Candidate Party Votes[2] Percent
James Tallmadge, Jr. Democratic-Republican 1,457 47.7%
Lemuel Clift Federalist 1,176 38.5%
Abraham Adriance Democratic-Republican 421 13.8%

Tallmadge took his seat on December 1,[3] at the start of the First Session of the 15th Congress.

See also

References

  1. History of Putnam County, New York
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2012-12-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 30
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