On April 20, 1818,[ 1] Jacob Spangler (DR) resigned from Congress, where he'd represented Pennsylvania's 4th district [ 2]
Election results
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]
See also
References
^ "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.[permanent dead link ] ^ 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.[permanent dead link ]
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