The 1818 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from April 28 to 30, 1818, to elect 27 U.S. Representatives to represent the State of New York in the United States House of Representatives of the 16th United States Congress.
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Background
27 U.S. Representatives had been elected in April 1816 to a term in the 15th United States Congress beginning on March 4, 1817. Representative-elect Henry B. Lee died on February 18, 1817, and James Tallmadge, Jr. was elected in April 1817 to fill the vacancy. The representatives' term would end on March 3, 1819. The congressional elections were held together with the State elections in late April 1818, about ten months before the term would start on March 4, 1819, and about a year and a half before Congress actually met on December 6, 1819.
Congressional districts
The geographical area of the districts remained the same as at the previous elections in 1816. Two new counties were created: Tompkins inside the 20th District; and Cattaraugus inside the 21st District. In 1817, the Town of Danube was separated from the Town of Minden in Montgomery County, and transferred to Herkimer County, but Danube remained in the 14th District.
- The 1st District (two seats) comprising the 1st and 2nd Ward of New York County, and Kings, Queens, Suffolk and Richmond counties.
- The 2nd District (two seats) comprising the other eight wards of New York County.
- The 3rd District comprising Westchester and Rockland counties.
- The 4th District comprising Dutchess County, except the towns of Rhinebeck and Clinton; and Putnam County.
- The 5th District comprising Columbia County; and Rhinebeck and Clinton in Dutchess County.
- The 6th District comprising Orange County.
- The 7th District comprising Ulster and Sullivan counties.
- The 8th District comprising Delaware and Greene counties.
- The 9th District comprising Albany County.
- The 10h District comprising Rensselaer County.
- The 11th District comprising Saratoga County.
- The 12th District (two seats) comprising Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Washington and Warren counties.
- The 13th District comprising Schenectady and Schoharie counties.
- The 14th District comprising Montgomery County and the Town of Danube in Herkimer County.
- The 15th District (two seats) comprising Chenango, Broome and Otsego counties.
- The 16th District comprising Oneida County.
- The 17th District comprising Herkimer County, except the Town of Danube, and Madison County.
- The 18th District comprising St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Lewis counties.
- The 19th District comprising Onondaga and Cortland counties.
- The 20th District (two seats) comprising Tioga, Steuben, Cayuga, Seneca and Tompkins counties.
- The 21st District (two seats) comprising Ontario, Genesee, Allegany, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.
Result
19 Democratic-Republicans, 6 Clintonian-Federalists and 2 Federalists were elected to the 16th Congress. The incumbents Wendover, Tompkins, Taylor and Storrs were re-elected, the incumbent Ellicott was defeated.
District | Democratic-Republican | Clintonian/Federalist | Federalist | also ran | ||||
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1st | James Guyon, Jr. | 1,701 | Silas Wood | 2,171 | "James Guyon" | 396 | ||
Ebenezer Sage | 2,085 | John Garretson | 1,992 | |||||
2nd | Henry Meigs | 3,226 | Barent Gardenier | 2,557 | ||||
Peter H. Wendover | 3,207 | |||||||
3rd | Caleb Tompkins | 1,439 | Benjamin Isaacs | 623 | Philip Van Cortlandt (C/F) | 406 | ||
4th | William H. Johnson | 1,356 | Randall S. Street | 1,390 | ||||
5th | John I. Miller | 1,260 | James S. Strong | 1,983 | Robert Le Roy Livingston (C/F) | 733 | ||
6th | Walter Case | 1,289 | ||||||
7th | Jacob H. De Witt | 1,304 | ||||||
8th | Robert Clark | 1,799 | Jabez Bostwick | 1,442 | ||||
9th | Solomon Van Rensselaer | 2,003 | ||||||
10th | William McManus | 2,002 | John D. Dickinson | 2,232 | ||||
11th | John W. Taylor | 2,282 | James Thompson | 851 | ||||
12th | Nathaniel Pitcher | 4,320 | David Abel Russell | 2,399 | Halsey Rogers (D-R) | 975 | ||
Ezra C. Gross | 3,743 | |||||||
13th | Harmanus Peek | 2,135 | Isaac H. Tiffany | 1,683 | ||||
14th | John Fay | 2,038 | John Veeder | 1,542 | ||||
15th | Samuel Campbell | 2,688 | Robert Monell | 2,903 | ||||
Edward Pratt | 2,604 | Joseph S. Lyman | 2,849 | |||||
16th | Allen Fraser | 119 | Henry R. Storrs | 2,332 | ||||
17th | Aaron Hackley, Jr. | 1,936 | Simeon Ford | 23 | ||||
18th | William D. Ford | 2,771 | Horatio Orvis | 966 | ||||
19th | George Hall | 2,288 | H. O. Wattles | 49 | ||||
20th | Jonathan Richmond | 5,548 | ||||||
Caleb Baker | 5,478 | |||||||
21st | Nathaniel Allen | 10,288 | Benjamin Ellicott (D-R; inc.) | 155 | ||||
Albert H. Tracy | 9,182 |
Note: It is difficult to ascertain the party affiliation of these candidates: At this time began the split of the Democratic-Republican Party into two opposing factions: on one side, the supporters of DeWitt Clinton and his Erie Canal project; on the other side, the Bucktails (including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City), led by Martin Van Buren. At the same time, the Federalist Party had already begun to disintegrate. In the Southern districts the Federalists and Clintonians combined to vote for joint nominees, running against the Bucktails; in the Western districts, where the Erie Canal was under construction, the Democratic-Republican nominees were Clintonians who were elected unopposed.
Aftermath and contested election
The House of Representatives of the 16th United States Congress met for the first time at the reconstructed United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 1819, and 26 of the representatives took their seats. Only Ebenezer Sage did not appear.
On December 10, Nathaniel Allen presented a petition on behalf of James Guyon, Jr. to contest the election of Ebenezer Sage in the 1st District. On January 12, 1820, the Committee on Elections submitted its report. They found that the election inspectors in the towns of Northfield (on Staten Island), Brooklyn, Hempstead and Oyster Bay had returned 391 votes for "James Guyon" although all these votes had in fact been given for "James Guyon, Jr." The Secretary of State of New York, receiving the abovementioned result, issued credentials for Sage who never took or claimed the seat. On January 14, the House declared Guyon, Jr., entitled to the seat, and Guyon took it.
Notes
- Of these 6 congressmen elected on fusion tickets against the Bucktails, Wood had been a Federalist candidate for Congress in 1798 and 1800; Street was appointed a D.A. in 1810 and 1813 by a Federalist Council of Appointment; and Storrs was a Federalist incumbent. The congressional records list Strong as Federalist; and Monell and Lyman as Democratic-Republicans.
- John Garretson, of Castleton, Staten Island, presidential elector 1808
- Benjamin Isaacs, assemblyman 1807, 1814-15, 1816 and 1818
- Jabez Bostwick, possibly the father of Jabez A. Bostwick
- Halsey Rogers, First Judge of the Warren Co. Court 1820-1823
- Allen Fraser, assemblyman 1820-21
- Simeon Ford, DA of Herkimer Co. 1818-23, assemblyman 1820-21 and 1822
- Horatio Orvis, of Jefferson Co., assemblyman 1818 and 1826
- H. O. Wattles, lawyer, of Manlius
- Abridgment of the Debates in Congress (Vol. VI; pages 463f)
- Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834 compiled by Matthew St. Clair Clarke and David A. Hall (Washington, D.C., 1834; Case XLV, pages 348ff)
- Journal of the House of Representatives (pages 29f, 127, 129 and 138)
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled in 1858 (see: pg. 66 for district apportionment; pg. 70f for Congressmen)
- Members of the Sixteenth United States Congress
- Election result 1st D. at project "A New Nation Votes", compiled by Phil Lampi, hosted by Tufts University Digital Library [gives 2.166 votes for Guyon, Jr.; the newspaper editor was not aware of the inspector's mistake]
- Election result 2nd D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 3rd D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 4th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 5th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 6th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 7th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 8th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 9th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 10th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 11th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 12th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 13th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 14th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 15th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 16th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 17th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 18th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 19th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 20th D. at "A New Nation Votes"
- Election result 21st D. at "A New Nation Votes"
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The 1818 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from April 28 to 30 1818 to elect 27 U S Representatives to represent the State of New York in the United States House of Representatives of the 16th United States Congress United States House of Representatives elections in New York 1818 1816 April 28 30 1818 1821 All 27 New York seats to the United States House of Representatives Majority party Minority party Party Democratic Republican Federalist Last election 22 5 Seats won 21 6 Seat change 1 1Background27 U S Representatives had been elected in April 1816 to a term in the 15th United States Congress beginning on March 4 1817 Representative elect Henry B Lee died on February 18 1817 and James Tallmadge Jr was elected in April 1817 to fill the vacancy The representatives term would end on March 3 1819 The congressional elections were held together with the State elections in late April 1818 about ten months before the term would start on March 4 1819 and about a year and a half before Congress actually met on December 6 1819 Congressional districtsThe geographical area of the districts remained the same as at the previous elections in 1816 Two new counties were created Tompkins inside the 20th District and Cattaraugus inside the 21st District In 1817 the Town of Danube was separated from the Town of Minden in Montgomery County and transferred to Herkimer County but Danube remained in the 14th District The 1st District two seats comprising the 1st and 2nd Ward of New York County and Kings Queens Suffolk and Richmond counties The 2nd District two seats comprising the other eight wards of New York County The 3rd District comprising Westchester and Rockland counties The 4th District comprising Dutchess County except the towns of Rhinebeck and Clinton and Putnam County The 5th District comprising Columbia County and Rhinebeck and Clinton in Dutchess County The 6th District comprising Orange County The 7th District comprising Ulster and Sullivan counties The 8th District comprising Delaware and Greene counties The 9th District comprising Albany County The 10h District comprising Rensselaer County The 11th District comprising Saratoga County The 12th District two seats comprising Clinton Essex Franklin Washington and Warren counties The 13th District comprising Schenectady and Schoharie counties The 14th District comprising Montgomery County and the Town of Danube in Herkimer County The 15th District two seats comprising Chenango Broome and Otsego counties The 16th District comprising Oneida County The 17th District comprising Herkimer County except the Town of Danube and Madison County The 18th District comprising St Lawrence Jefferson and Lewis counties The 19th District comprising Onondaga and Cortland counties The 20th District two seats comprising Tioga Steuben Cayuga Seneca and Tompkins counties The 21st District two seats comprising Ontario Genesee Allegany Niagara Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties Note There are now 62 counties in the State of New York The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established or sufficiently organized the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties Result19 Democratic Republicans 6 Clintonian Federalists and 2 Federalists were elected to the 16th Congress The incumbents Wendover Tompkins Taylor and Storrs were re elected the incumbent Ellicott was defeated 1818 United States House election result District Democratic Republican Clintonian Federalist Federalist also ran 1st James Guyon Jr 1 701 Silas Wood 2 171 James Guyon 396 Ebenezer Sage 2 085 John Garretson 1 992 2nd Henry Meigs 3 226 Barent Gardenier 2 557 Peter H Wendover 3 207 3rd Caleb Tompkins 1 439 Benjamin Isaacs 623 Philip Van Cortlandt C F 406 4th William H Johnson 1 356 Randall S Street 1 390 5th John I Miller 1 260 James S Strong 1 983 Robert Le Roy Livingston C F 733 6th Walter Case 1 289 7th Jacob H De Witt 1 304 8th Robert Clark 1 799 Jabez Bostwick 1 442 9th Solomon Van Rensselaer 2 003 10th William McManus 2 002 John D Dickinson 2 232 11th John W Taylor 2 282 James Thompson 851 12th Nathaniel Pitcher 4 320 David Abel Russell 2 399 Halsey Rogers D R 975 Ezra C Gross 3 743 13th Harmanus Peek 2 135 Isaac H Tiffany 1 683 14th John Fay 2 038 John Veeder 1 542 15th Samuel Campbell 2 688 Robert Monell 2 903 Edward Pratt 2 604 Joseph S Lyman 2 849 16th Allen Fraser 119 Henry R Storrs 2 332 17th Aaron Hackley Jr 1 936 Simeon Ford 23 18th William D Ford 2 771 Horatio Orvis 966 19th George Hall 2 288 H O Wattles 49 20th Jonathan Richmond 5 548 Caleb Baker 5 478 21st Nathaniel Allen 10 288 Benjamin Ellicott D R inc 155 Albert H Tracy 9 182 Note It is difficult to ascertain the party affiliation of these candidates At this time began the split of the Democratic Republican Party into two opposing factions on one side the supporters of DeWitt Clinton and his Erie Canal project on the other side the Bucktails including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City led by Martin Van Buren At the same time the Federalist Party had already begun to disintegrate In the Southern districts the Federalists and Clintonians combined to vote for joint nominees running against the Bucktails in the Western districts where the Erie Canal was under construction the Democratic Republican nominees were Clintonians who were elected unopposed Aftermath and contested electionThe House of Representatives of the 16th United States Congress met for the first time at the reconstructed United States Capitol in Washington D C on December 6 1819 and 26 of the representatives took their seats Only Ebenezer Sage did not appear On December 10 Nathaniel Allen presented a petition on behalf of James Guyon Jr to contest the election of Ebenezer Sage in the 1st District On January 12 1820 the Committee on Elections submitted its report They found that the election inspectors in the towns of Northfield on Staten Island Brooklyn Hempstead and Oyster Bay had returned 391 votes for James Guyon although all these votes had in fact been given for James Guyon Jr The Secretary of State of New York receiving the abovementioned result issued credentials for Sage who never took or claimed the seat On January 14 the House declared Guyon Jr entitled to the seat and Guyon took it NotesOf these 6 congressmen elected on fusion tickets against the Bucktails Wood had been a Federalist candidate for Congress in 1798 and 1800 Street was appointed a D A in 1810 and 1813 by a Federalist Council of Appointment and Storrs was a Federalist incumbent The congressional records list Strong as Federalist and Monell and Lyman as Democratic Republicans John Garretson of Castleton Staten Island presidential elector 1808 Benjamin Isaacs assemblyman 1807 1814 15 1816 and 1818 Jabez Bostwick possibly the father of Jabez A Bostwick Halsey Rogers First Judge of the Warren Co Court 1820 1823 Allen Fraser assemblyman 1820 21 Simeon Ford DA of Herkimer Co 1818 23 assemblyman 1820 21 and 1822 Horatio Orvis of Jefferson Co assemblyman 1818 and 1826 H O Wattles lawyer of Manlius Abridgment of the Debates in Congress Vol VI pages 463f Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834 compiled by Matthew St Clair Clarke and David A Hall Washington D C 1834 Case XLV pages 348ff Journal of the House of Representatives pages 29f 127 129 and 138 SourcesThe New York Civil List compiled in 1858 see pg 66 for district apportionment pg 70f for Congressmen Members of the Sixteenth United States Congress Election result 1st D at project A New Nation Votes compiled by Phil Lampi hosted by Tufts University Digital Library gives 2 166 votes for Guyon Jr the newspaper editor was not aware of the inspector s mistake Election result 2nd D at A New Nation Votes Election result 3rd D at A New Nation Votes Election result 4th D at A New Nation Votes Election result 5th D at A New Nation Votes Election result 6th D at A New Nation Votes Election result 7th D at A 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