1816 Georgia's at-large congressional district special election

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In December 1816, a special election was held in Georgia's at-large district to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert (DR) on November 9. Cuthbert himself had been elected in a special election in 1813.

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Election results

CandidatePartyVotes [1] Percent
Zadock Cook Democratic-Republican1,16739.5%
Thomas U.P. Charlton [2] 1,13038.3%
Moore [3] [2] 37212.6%
Walker [3] [2] 2859.6%

Cook took his seat in Congress on January 23, 1817. [4]

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References

  1. "View Election". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Party affiliation not given in source, presumably Democratic-Republican given the near-non-existence of the Federalist Party in Georgia in this time period
  3. 1 2 Full name not given in source
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 7