Elections in Connecticut |
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Connecticut elected its members April 4 1825, after the term began but before the new Congress convened.
District | Incumbent | This race | |||
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Member | Party | First elected | Results | Candidates | |
Connecticut at-large 6 seats on a general ticket | Gideon Tomlinson | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1818 | Incumbent re-elected as Anti-Jacksonian. |
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Ansel Sterling | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1821 | Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Jacksonian gain. | ||
Samuel A. Foote | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1823 | Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Jacksonian gain. | ||
Lemuel Whitman | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1823 | Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Jacksonian gain. | ||
Noyes Barber | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1821 | Incumbent re-elected as Anti-Jacksonian. | ||
Ebenezer Stoddard | Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican | 1821 | Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Jacksonian gain. |
Calvin Willey was an American politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 19th Congress were held at various dates in different states between July 1824 and August 1825, coinciding with the contentious 1824 Presidential election. After no Presidential candidate won an electoral majority, in February 1825 the House of the outgoing 18th Congress chose the President in a contingent election.
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.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 15th Congress were held at various dates in different states between April 1816 and August 1817.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 14th Congress were held at various dates in different states between April 1814 and August 1815 during President James Madison's second term.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 12th Congress were held at various dates in different states between April 1810 and August 1811 during President James Madison's first term.
Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 10th Congress were held at various dates in each state between April 29, 1806 and August 4, 1807 during Thomas Jefferson's second term with the new Congress meeting on October 26, 1807.
Samuel Augustus Foot was the 28th Governor of Connecticut as well as a United States Representative and Senator.
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll was a lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he was Speaker of the House, a United States Representative from Connecticut for four consecutive terms from 1825 to 1833, and was the U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire under President James K. Polk in the late 1840s.
James Beach Wakefield was a United States Representative from Minnesota.
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Elisha Phelps was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was the son of Noah Phelps and father of John Smith Phelps who was a United States Representative from Missouri. He was born in Simsbury, Connecticut. In 1800, he was graduated from Yale College and from Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and began practice in Simsbury.
Orange Merwin was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Merryall, Connecticut and attended the common schools. He later engaged in agricultural pursuits.
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 1806 and 1807 were elections that had the Democratic-Republican Party increase its overwhelming control of the Senate by one additional Senator. The Federalists went into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats that even if they had won every election, they would still have remained a minority caucus. As it was, however, they lost one of the two seats they were defending and picked up no gains from their opponents.
The United States Senate elections of 1810 and 1811 were elections that had the Democratic-Republican Party maintain their majority in the United States Senate. The minority Federalists had gone into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats that, had they won all of the elections, they would still not have reached a majority.
The United States Senate elections of 1798 and 1799 were held at the middle of President John Adams's administration and had no net change in political control of the Senate.
Connecticut elected all five of its representatives at-large on a general ticket on September 20, 1790.
In 1818, Uriel Holmes (F) of Connecticut's at-large district resigned from the House. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy.