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1813 Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district special election
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On August 2, 1813, Representative John Gloninger (F) of Pennsylvania's PA 3 3rd district resigned his seat. A special election to fill this vacancy was held on October 12, 1813. This was the first of two special elections held in the 3rd district in the 13th Congress (the 3rd district was a plural district with two seats).
Election results
Candidate Party VotesCox Harold E. 13th Congress 18131815 http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/rep/Congress%201812.pdf Wilkes University Election Statistics Project January 13, 2007 Percent Edward Crouch Democratic-Republican 4,550 62.0% William Wallace Federalist 2,790 38.0%
Crouch took his seat on December 6, 1813.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/13.pdf Thirteenth Congress March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815 December 18, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121213140702/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/13.pdf December 13, 2012 footnote 54 With Gloninger's resignation, Pennsylvania had no Federalist representatives in Congress until the special elections in 1814 in the 2nd and 3rd districts both replaced Democratic-Republicans by Federalists.
See also
List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
References
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