1804 United States House of Representatives elections in New York
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The 1804 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from April 24 to 26, 1804, to elect 17
Background
17 U.S. Representatives had been elected in April 1802 to a term in the
Congressional districts
After the U.S. census of 1800, New York's representation in the House was increased to 17 seats. On March 30, 1802, the
Besides, Seneca Co. was split from Cayuga Co. inside the 17th District.
- The 1st District comprising Queens and Suffolk counties.
- The Richmondcounties.
- The 4th District comprising Westchester and Rockland counties.
- The 5th District comprising Orange County.
- The 6th District comprising Dutchess County.
- The 7th District comprising Ulster and Greene counties.
- The 8th District comprising Columbia County.
- The 9th District comprising Albany County.
- The 10th District comprising Rensselaer County.
- The 11h District comprising Clinton, Saratoga and Essex counties.
- The 12h District comprising Washington County.
- The 13th District comprising Montgomery and Schoharie counties.
- The 14th District comprising Delaware and Otsego counties.
- The 15th District comprising Herkimer and Oneida counties.
- The 16th District comprising Chenango, Tioga and Onondaga counties.
- The 17th District comprising Ontario, Steuben, Cayuga and Seneca counties.
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.
Result
15 Democratic-Republicans and 2 Federalists were elected to the 9th Congress, and one Democratic-Reopublican to fill the vacancy in the 8th Congress. The incumbents Mitchill, Van Cortlandt, Verplanck, Livingston, Van Rensselaer, Thomas and Sammons were re-elected; the incumbent Root was defeated.
District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||||
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1 | Eliphalet Wickes | 1,052 | Joshua Smith | 840 | Samuel Riker[1] | 1,044 | ||||||
2 and 3 | Samuel L. Mitchill
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4,056 | Nicholas Fish | 3,245 | ||||||||
Daniel D. Tompkins | 4,040 | Wynandt Van Zandt | 3,236 | |||||||||
4 | Philip Van Cortlandt | 1,545 | John Herring | 838 | ||||||||
5 | John Blake, Jr.
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1,411 | David M. Westcott[2] | 826 | ||||||||
6 | Daniel C. Verplanck | 2,291 | Benjamin Akin[3] | 1,658 | ||||||||
7 | Martin G. Schuneman | 2,361 | Gerrit Abeel[4] | 1,578 | ||||||||
8 | Edward P. Livingston
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1,610 | Henry W. Livingston | 1,951 | ||||||||
9 | David McCarty[5] | 1,465 | Killian K. Van Rensselaer | 1,894 | ||||||||
10 | Josiah Masters | 1,851 | Jonathan Brown[6] | 1,492 | ||||||||
11 | Peter Sailly | 2,846 | ||||||||||
12 | David Thomas
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2,367 | Reuben Skinner | 1,001 | ||||||||
13 | Thomas Sammons | 3,290 | ||||||||||
14 | John Russell | 2,512 | Benjamin Gilbert | 177 | Erastus Root | 105 | Solomon Martin[7] | 105 | Thomas R. Gold | 28 | ||
15 | Nathan Williams
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3,633 | Thomas R. Gold | 2,697 | ||||||||
16 | Uri Tracy | 3,222 | Edward Edwards[8] | 1,911 | ||||||||
17 | Silas Halsey | 2,167 | Nathaniel W. Howell | 2,013 | Joseph Grover | 602 | Peter Hughes[9] | 581 |
Note: The Anti-Federalists called themselves "Republicans." However, at the same time, the Federalists called them "Democrats" which was meant to be pejorative. After some time both terms got more and more confused, and sometimes used together as "Democratic Republicans" which later historians have adopted (with a hyphen) to describe the party from the beginning, to avoid confusion with both the later established and still existing Democratic and Republican parties.
Aftermath and special elections
Daniel D. Tompkins, elected in the 2nd/3rd D., was appointed on July 2, 1804, to the New York Supreme Court and resigned his seat, before the congressional term began. A special election to fill the vacancy was held in October 1804, and was won by Gurdon S. Mumford, of the same party.
Samuel L. Mitchill, who had been re-elected in the 2nd/3rd D. to a third term, resigned his seat on November 22, 1804, after
Candidate | Party | Votes |
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George Clinton, Jr.
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Democratic-Republican | 1,065 |
James Smith | 63 | |
James Woods | 52 | |
other | 22 |
The House of Representatives of the 9th United States Congress met for the first time at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 2, 1805, and Blake, Halsey, Masters, Mumford, Russell, Sailly, Sammons, Schuneman, Thomas, Tracy, Van Rensselaer and Williams took their seats on this day. Livingston and Wickes took their seats on December 9; Van Cortlandt on December 10; Verplanck on December 11; and Clinton on December 16.[11]
Notes
- ^ The vacancy in the 8th Congress and the next term in the 9th Congress were filled at the same election. Wickes won the full term, Riker was elected to fill the vacancy.
- ^ David M. Westcott, assemblyman 1798-99
- ^ Benjamin Akin, assemblyman 1800-01 and 1802
- ^ Gerrit Abeel, assemblyman 1796 and 1798-99
- ^ David McCarty, assemblyman 1792
- ^ Jonathan Brown, assemblyman 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795 and 1800-01
- ^ Solomon Martin, assemblyman 1800-01 and 1802
- ^ Edward Edwards, assemblymen from Tioga Co. 1800-01
- ^ Peter Hughes, sheriff of Cayuga Co. 1801-1804
- ^ Special election result, 2nd/3rd D. at A New Nation Votes
- ^ Abridgment of the Debates in Congress from 1789 to 1856 (Vol. III; pages 377, 379f and 383)
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled in 1858 (see: pg. 65 for district apportionment; pg. 69 for Congressmen)
- Members of the Ninth United States Congress
- Election result 1st D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 2nd/3rd D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 4th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 5th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 6th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 7th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 8th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 9th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 10th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 11th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 12th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 13th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 14th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 15th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 16th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 17th D. at Tufts University Library project "A New Nation Votes"