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| {{Party shading/Hold}} | Incumbent resigned March 15, 1848.<br/>Successor [[United States Senate special election in Arkansas, 1848|elected]] '''March 30, 1848'''.<br/>Democratic hold.<br/>Winner was later elected to the next term, see below. |
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The United States Senate elections of 1848 and 1848 were elections which had the Democratic Party lose seats but maintain control of the United States Senate.
As this election was prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.
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In these special elections, the winners were seated during 1848 or in 1849 before March 4; ordered by election date.
State | Incumbent | Results | Candidates | ||
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Senator | Party | Electoral history | |||
Connecticut (Class 1) |
Jabez W. Huntington | Whig | [data missing] | Incumbent died November 1, 1847. Successor appointed November 11, 1847 and then elected May 1848. Whig hold. |
√ Roger S. Baldwin (Whig) [data missing] |
Maine (Class 1) |
Wyman B. S. Moor | Democratic | [data missing] | Interim appointee retired when successor elected June 7, 1848. Democratic hold. |
√ Hannibal Hamlin (Democratic) [data missing] |
Wisconsin (Class 1) |
New State | Wisconsin admitted to the Union May 29, 1848. First Senator elected June 8, 1848. Democratic gain. |
√ Henry Dodge (Democratic) [data missing] | ||
Wisconsin (Class 3) |
New State | Wisconsin admitted to the Union May 29, 1848. First Senator elected June 8, 1848. Democratic gain. |
√ Isaac P. Walker (Democratic) [data missing] | ||
Alabama (Class 3) |
Arthur P. Bagby | Democratic | [data missing] | Incumbent resigned June 16, 1848 to become U.S. Minister to Russia. Successor elected July 1, 1848. Democratic hold. |
√ William R. King (Democratic) [data missing] |
Iowa (Class 2) |
New State | Iowa was admitted to the Union December 28, 1846. Legislature had failed to elect due to a three-way split that prevented any candidate from earning the required number of 30 legislators' votes.[1] First Senator elected December 7, 1848. Democratic gain. |
√ George W. Jones (Democratic) [data missing] | ||
Iowa (Class 3) |
New State | Iowa was admitted to the Union December 28, 1846. Legislature had failed to elect due to a three-way split that prevented any candidate from earning the required number of 30 legislators' votes.[1] First Senator elected December 7, 1848. Democratic gain. |
√ Augustus C. Dodge (Democratic) [data missing] | ||
Delaware (Class 1) |
John M. Clayton | Whig | [data missing] | Incumbent resigned February 23, 1849 to become U.S. Secretary of State. Successor elected February 23, 1849. Whig hold. |
√ John Wales (Whig) [data missing] |
In two states, interim Senators were appointed during this time, then later elected on an unknown date, perhaps during this time:
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In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1849; ordered by state.
All of the elections involved the Class 3 seats.
State | Incumbent | Results | Candidates | ||
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Senator | Party | Electoral history | |||
Alabama | William R. King | Democratic | 1848 (Special) | Incumbent re-elected in 1848 or 1849. | √ William R. King (Democratic) [data missing] |
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In these special elections, the winners were elected in 1849 after March 4.
State | Incumbent | Results | Candidates | ||
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Alabama (Class 2) |
Benjamin Fitzpatrick | Democratic | 1848 (Appointed) | Unknown if interim appointee retired when successor elected or lost election to finish the term. Winner elected November 30, 1849. Democratic hold. |
√ Jeremiah Clemens (Democratic) [data missing] |
The New York election was held February 6, 1849. Barnburner John Adams Dix had been elected in 1845 to this seat after the resignation of Silas Wright, and Dix's term would expire on March 3, 1849. In November 1848, Dix was the Barnburners/Free-Soilers candidate for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Whig Hamilton Fish.
At this time New York Democratic Party in was split in two fiercely opposing factions: the Barnburners" and the "Hunkers". The Barnburners organized the Free Soil Party in 1848 and nominated Martin Van Buren for U.S. President. Due to the split, the Whig Party won most of the elective offices by pluralities.
At the State election in November 1847, 24 Whigs and 8 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1848-1849) in the State Senate. At the State election in November 1848, 106 Whigs, 15 Free Soilers and 7 Hunkers were elected to the Assembly for the session of 1849. The 72nd New York State Legislature met from January 2 to April 11, 1849, at Albany, New York.
Ex-Governor of New York William H. Seward was nominated by a caucus of Whig State legislators on February 1, 1849. The vote was 88 for Seward, 12 for John A. Collier, 18 scattering and 4 blanks. The incumbent U.S. Senator John Adams Dix ran for re-election supported by the Free Soilers. Ex-Chancellor Reuben H. Walworth was the candidate of the Hunkers. Walworth had been third place in the last gubernatorial election, behind Fish and Dix. Ex-Congressman Daniel D. Barnard (Whig) received 2 scattering votes in the Senate. William H. Seward was the choice of both the Assembly and the Senate, and was declared elected.
House | Whig | Free Soil | Dem./Hunker | also ran | ||||
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State Senate (32 members) | William H. Seward | 19 | John Adams Dix | 6 | Reuben H. Walworth | 2 | Daniel D. Barnard | 2 |
State Assembly (128 members) | William H. Seward | 102 | John Adams Dix | 15 | Reuben H. Walworth | 7 |
The two houses of the Ohio General Assembly met in joint session February 22, 1849, with 72 representatives and 35 senators present to elect a Senator (Class 3) to succeed incumbent Wiliam Allen. On the fourth ballot, Salmon P. Chase was elected with a majority of the votes cast, as follows:[2]
Ballot | William Allen | Thomas Ewing | Joshua Reed Giddings | Salmon P. Chase | Reuben Hitchcock | Emery D. Potter | David T. Disney | John C. Vaughn | blank ballots | total votes cast |
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1 | 27 | 41 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 106 |
2 | 1 | 41 | 8 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 108 |
3 | 0 | 39 | 9 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 105 |
4 | 0 | 39 | 11 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 106 |
The second ballot was declared a nullity by Speaker of the Senate Brewster Randall, because there were one more ballots cast than members present.
The Pennsylvania election was held January 10, 1849. James Cooper was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.[3]
Incumbent Democrat Simon Cameron, who was elected in 1845, was not a candidate for re-election to another term. The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 10, 1849, to elect a new Senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1849. Three ballots were recorded. The results of the third and final ballot of both houses combined are as follows:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Whig | James Cooper | 66 | 49.62 | |
Democratic | Richard Brodhead | 62 | 46.62 | |
Free Soil | Thaddeus Stevens | 3 | 2.26 | |
N/A | Not voting | 2 | 1.50 | |
Totals | 133 | 100.00% |