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1836 Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district special election
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On November 4, 1836, a special election was held in PA 13 to fill a vacancy left by the October 30th, 1836 resignation of Jesse Miller (J).http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/24.pdf TwentyFourth Congress March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837 March 13, 2022 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives December 12, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121212192623/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/24.pdf dead footnote 62
Election results
Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 24th Congress 18351837 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201834.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 14, 2007 Percent James Black Jacksonian 3,579 57.5% Robert Elliott Anti-Jacksonian 2,742 42.5%
Black took his seat December 5, 1836, at the start of the 2nd session of the 24th Congress.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/24.pdf TwentyFourth Congress March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837 March 13, 2022 Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives December 12, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121212192623/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/24.pdf dead footnote 63
See also
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References
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