1815 Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district special election

none February 2026 September 2023 On July 2, 1815, Representative-elect Amos Ellmaker (DR) of PA 3 Pennsylvania's 3rd district resigned after being appointed and commissioned president judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylkill, and before the 14th Congress' first session began. A special election was held on October 10, 1815, to fill the vacancy left by his resignation. Election results Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 14th Congress 18151817 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201814.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 13, 2007 Percent James M. Wallace Democratic-Republican 5,016 55.4% Phillip Gloninger Federalist 4,031 44.6% Wallace took his seat on December 4, 1815http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 February 19, 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives December 6, 2014 footnote 54 at the start of the 1st session of the 14th Congress. See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives References Pennsylvania 1815 03 Pennsylvania 1815 03 1815 03 Pennsylvania 03 United States House of Representatives 03 United States House of Representatives 1815 03