1817 New York's 4th congressional district special election

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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.

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Special election

CandidatePartyVotes [2] Percent
James Tallmadge, Jr. Democratic-Republican1,45747.7%
Lemuel CliftFederalist1,17638.5%
Abraham AdrianceDemocratic-Republican42113.8%

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

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References

  1. History of Putnam County, New York
  2. "View Election". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 30