Elections in Indiana |
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Indiana re-elected its member August 3, 1818.
District | Incumbent | This race | |||
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Member | Party | First elected | Results | Candidates | |
Indiana at-large | William Hendricks | Democratic-Republican | 1816 | Incumbent re-elected. | √ William Hendricks (Democratic-Republican) 90.5% Reuben W. Nelson 9.5% |
Thomas Smith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana.
Tilghman Ashurst Howard was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from Indiana. He was born near Easley, South Carolina. He moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1816 and was admitted to the bar there in 1818. In 1830, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, and in 1833 to Rockville, Indiana. President Andrew Jackson appointed him US Attorney for Indiana, and he served as such from 1833 to 1839. In 1838, he sought, unsuccessfully, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives on August 5, 1839, and served until he resigned on July 1, 1840.
The Treaty of St. Mary's may refer to one of six treaties concluded in fall of 1818 between the United States and Natives of central Indiana regarding purchase of Native land. The treaties were
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 16th Congress were held at various dates in different states between April 1818 and August 1819 during President James Monroe's first term. Also, newly admitted Alabama elected its first representatives in September 1819.
Jesse Burgess Thomas was an American lawyer, judge and politician who served as a delegate from the Indiana Territory to the tenth Congress and later served as president of the Constitutional Convention which led to Illinois being admitted to the Union. He became one of Illinois' first two Senators, and is best known as the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1829 he lived the rest of his life in Ohio.
Oliver Hampton Smith was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana. Born on Smith's Island, near Trenton, New Jersey, he attended the common schools and moved west, eventually settling in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1818. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1820, commencing practice in Connersville. From 1822 to 1824 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and was prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district, 1824-1825.
James Addison Cravens was a nineteenth-century politician from Indiana. He was the second cousin of James Harrison Cravens.
Abraham Jonathan (Abram) Hostetler was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Daniel Webster Waugh was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Harvey David Scott was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Jacob Call was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
James Rariden was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Johnathan McCarty was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Joseph Ketchum Edgerton was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Thomas Holdsworth Blake was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Indiana from 1827 to 1829.
John Hanson Farquhar was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
John Law was an American politician who represented Indiana in the United States House of Representatives from 1861-1865. He was the son of Lyman Law, and grandson of Richard Law, and Amasa Learned.
The United States Senate elections of 1818 and 1819 were elections for the United States Senate that had the Democratic-Republican Party gain two seats. The Federalists had only three seats being contested, of which they lost two and the third was left vacant due to a failure to elect.