1822 Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On May 8, 1822, the last day of the First Session of the 17th Congress, Henry Baldwin (DR) of PA 14 Pennsylvania's 14th district resigned from Congress.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823 December 14, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121213144812/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/17.pdf December 13, 2012 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives Footnotes 44 and 45. A special election was held on October 1, 1822, to fill the resulting vacancy. Election results Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 17th Congress 18211823 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201820.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 14, 2007 Percent Walter Forward Democratic-Republican 2,676 58.2% Ephraim Pentland Independent 1,921 41.8% Forward took his seat on December 2, 1822 See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1822 14 Pennsylvania 1822 14 1822 14 Pennsylvania 14 United States House of Representatives 14 United States House of Representatives 1822 14