| Elections in Indiana |
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Indiana elected its members August 7, 1826.
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| Indiana 1 | Ratliff Boon | Jacksonian | 1824 | Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Jacksonian gain. |
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| Indiana 2 | Jonathan Jennings | Anti-Jacksonian | 1822 (Special) | Incumbent re-elected. |
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| Indiana 3 | John Test | Anti-Jacksonian | 1822 | Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain. |
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Fountain County lies in the western part of the U.S. state of Indiana on the east side of the Wabash River. The county was officially established in 1826 and was the 53rd in Indiana. The county seat is Covington.
Covington is a city in, and the county seat of, Fountain County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,645 at the 2010 census.
These are tables of congressional delegations from Indiana to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Caleb Blood Smith was a United States Representative from Indiana, the 6th United States Secretary of the Interior and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana.
Ratliff Boon was an American politician who briefly served as the second Governor of Indiana — taking office following the resignation of Governor Jonathan Jennings, whom he served as lieutenant governor under, after his election to Congress, and subsequently serving again as lieutenant governor under Governor William Hendricks — and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives. A prominent politician in the state, Boon was instrumental in the formation of the state Democratic Party, and he supported President Andrew Jackson's policies while in the House.
The 1826–27 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 3, 1826, and August 30, 1827. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 20th United States Congress convened on December 3, 1827. They occurred during John Quincy Adams's presidency. Elections were held for all 213 seats, representing 24 states.
Waller Taylor was an American military commander, politician, and one of the first two senators from the state of Indiana.
Joseph Ewing McDonald was an American politician who served as a United States representative and Senator from Indiana. He also served as Indiana's 2nd Attorney General and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1884.
Eleutheros Cooke was a lawyer and U.S. representative from Ohio (1831–1833).
Lyman Law, son of Richard Law and father of John Law, was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born New London, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1791. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1793 and commenced practice in New London.
Robert Lytle Mchatton was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
George L. Kinnard was a Representative from Indiana; born in Pennsylvania in 1803; moved with his widowed mother to Tennessee and completed preparatory studies; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1823; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practised in Marion County, Indiana; assessor for Marion County in 1826 and 1827; member of the State house of representatives 1827–1830; county surveyor 1831–1835; colonel of the State militia; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1833, until his death on November 26, 1836; interment probably in Presbyterian Burying Ground, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jacob Call was an American lawyer who briefly served as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1824 to 1825.
John Peter Cleaver Shanks was a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1867 to 1875 and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Test was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Joseph Hutton DeFrees was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1865 to 1867.
William John Brown was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
James Lockhart was an American lawyer and politician who served one term politician as a United States representative from Indiana from 1851 to 1853, then again in 1857.
Pennsylvania elected its members October 10, 1826.
The 1826 United States elections occurred in the middle of Democratic-Republican President John Quincy Adams's term. Members of the 20th United States Congress were chosen in this election. The election took place during a transitional period between the First Party System and the Second Party System. With the Federalist Party no longer active as a major political party, the major split in Congress was between supporters of Adams and supporters of Andrew Jackson, who Adams had defeated in the 1824 Presidential election.
