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On April 20, 1818,[1] Jacob Spangler (DR ) resigned from Congress, where he'd represented Pennsylvania's 4th district . A special election was held that year to fill the resulting vacancy.[2]
Election results [ edit ]
Candidate
Party
Votes[3] [4]
Percent
Jacob Hostetter
Democratic-Republican
771
49.7%
Samuel Bacon
Democratic-Republican
693
44.7%
John Clark
[5]
88
5.7%
Hostetter took his seat on November 16[6] at the start of the Second Session.
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References [ edit ]
^ The source used states that the election was held on March 17, but this would appear to be an error, as that's over a month before Spangler resigned.
^ Cox, Harold E. (January 6, 2007). "15th Congress 1817–1819" (PDF) . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project .
^ "Pennsylvania 1818 U.S. House of Representatives, District 4, Special" . Tufts Digital Collations and Archives . A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University . Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
^ Source did not give party affiliation
^ "Fifteenth Congress March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819" . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved November 2, 2018 – via History.house.gov. , footnote 45
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1818_Pennsylvania%27s_4th_congressional_district_special_election&oldid=1225572059 "
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