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1824 United States House of Representatives elections in New York

The 1824 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from November 1 to 3, 1824, to elect 34 U.S. Representatives to represent the State of New York in the United States House of Representatives of the 19th United States Congress.

United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1824
← 1822 November 1–3, 1824 1826 →
All 34 New York seats to the United States House of Representatives
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Anti-Jacksonian Jacksonian
Last election 18[1] 2[2]
Seats won 25 9
Seat change Increase 8 Increase 6

Background

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34 U.S. Representatives had been elected in November 1822 to a term in the 18th United States Congress, beginning on March 4, 1823. William B. Rochester had resigned his seat in April 1823, and William Woods was elected to fill the vacancy. Parmenio Adams had contested the election of Isaac Wilson, and was seated in January 1824. The representatives' term would end on March 3, 1825. The elections were held with the annual State election on the first Monday in November and the two succeeding days, about four months before the congressional term began, and a little more than a year before Congress actually met on December 5, 1825.

At this time the Democratic-Republican Party in New York was split 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 disbanded, and most of its former members had joined the Clintonians.

At the same time, party lines broke down concerning the 1824 United States presidential election. The Bucktails' leader Van Buren supported William H. Crawford, and most of the Clintonians supported John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay also disputed the election, but found more support in other States. Since 1792, presidential electors had been elected by the New York State Legislature, but with a four-way race in the offing, a movement to change the mode of election was started: The "People's Party" advocated the election of presidential electors by popular ballot in districts, and nominated DeWitt Clinton for Governor of New York.

Congressional districts

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The geographical area of the congressional districts remained the same as at the previous elections in 1822. Two new counties were created within the 26th district: Wayne Co. and Yates Co.

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

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23 People's Party men and 11 Bucktails were declared elected. The incumbents Wood, Cambreleng, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Storrs, Taylor, Martindale, Ten Eyck, Marvin, Rose, Hayden and Adams were re-elected; the incumbents Sharpe, Craig, Herkimer, Clark, Litchfield, Day and Woods were defeated.

1824 United States House election result
District People's Party Democratic-Republican/Bucktails also ran
1st Silas Wood 2,140 James Lent 1,398
2nd Joshua Sands 1,683 John T. Bergen 1,484
3rd John Rathbone Jr.[3] 3,981 Churchill C. Cambreleng 5,718 Henry Wheaton 750
Charles G. Haines[4] 3,857 Gulian C. Verplanck 4,877
Peter Sharpe 3,741 Jeromus Johnson 4,588
4th Aaron Ward 1,586 Jonathan Ward 1,297 John Hunter (Buckt.) 1,188
5th Bartow White 3,596 Peter R. Livingston 3,210
6th Hector Craig 1,978 John Hallock Jr. 2,105 Walter Case (Buckt.) 374
7th Abraham B. Hasbrouck 2,917 John Lounsbery[5] 2,781
8th James Strong 3,130 Robert Le Roy Livingston 2,089
9th William McManus 3,807 George R. Davis 2,925
10th Stephen Van Rensselaer 3,850
11th William V. B. Hermance[6] 2,698 Henry Ashley 3,531 Amos Hamlin[7] 64
12th Constant Brown[8] 2,129 William Dietz 2,810 Henry Greene (PP) 54
13th William Campbell 2,357 William G. Angel 3,379
14th Henry R. Storrs 4,146 James Lynch[9] 3,094
15th John Herkimer 2,164 Michael Hoffman 2,410
16th Henry Markell 3,115 William I. Dodge 2,148
17th John W. Taylor 3,858
18th Henry C. Martindale 3,449 John Gale[10] 1,893
19th Henry H. Ross 3,210 William Hogan 2,933
20th Nicoll Fosdick 5,676 Horace Allen[11] 5,472 "Daniel Hugunin, junior" 275
Daniel Hugunin, jun. 5,188 Egbert Ten Eyck 5,484 "Daniel Hugunin" 195
21st Elias Whitmore 3,128 Lot Clark 3,073
22nd John Miller 3,857 John Lynde[12] 3,243
23rd Luther Badger 3,214 Elisha Litchfield 3,116
24th Charles Kellogg 3,372 Rowland Day 2,976
25th Charles Humphrey 3,144 David Woodcock 2,999
26th Dudley Marvin 8,367 John Maynard 4,438
Robert S. Rose 4,901 Aaron Remer[13] 2,732
27th Moses Hayden 4,456 Charles H. Carroll 3,028
28th Daniel Cruger 1,693 Timothy H. Porter 2,100 William Woods (Buckt.) 1,937
29th Parmenio Adams 4,035 Isaac Wilson 2,969
30th William Hotchkiss[14] 2,235 Daniel G. Garnsey 2,387 John G. Camp[15] (Buckt.) 2,127

Note: Of the People's Party candidates, Wood, Sands, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Campbell and Storrs were old Federalists; Haines, Craig, Taylor, Marvin, Hayden and Adams were old Clintonians; and Sharpe, Herkimer, Martindale and Rose were elected as Bucktails in 1822.

Aftermath, presidential election and contested election

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No change in the mode of election of presidential electors was enacted this year.[16] On November 11, 1824, the New York State Legislature chose 36 presidential electors of whom 26 voted for John Quincy Adams, 5 for William H. Crawford, 4 for Henry Clay and 1 for Andrew Jackson. No candidate received a majority in the electoral college vote at the 1824 United States presidential election, and the election was referred to the House of Representatives, to choose among the three most voted candidates: Adams, Jackson and Crawford. Henry Clay supported Adams, so that after the contingent election on February 9, 1825, one month before the end of the term of the 18th Congress, the members were back-labeled (according to their actual vote) as "Adams-Clay Democratic-Republicans" (Sharpe, Van Wyck, Williams, Herkimer, Cady, Taylor, Martindale, Lawrence, Marvin, Rose, Hayden, Woods, Adams and Tracy), "Jackson Democratic-Republicans" (Morgan and Craig), "Crawford Democratic-Republicans" (Tyson, Cambreleng, Frost, Jenkins, Hoogeboom, Foote, Eaton, Richards, Ten Eyck, Collins, Clark, Dwinell, Litchfield, Day) and "Adams-Clay Federalists" (Wood, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Storrs).

After this fiasco, Martin Van Buren abandoned Crawford, and re-organized his Bucktails supporting Andrew Jackson. In the 19th Congress the members were split into the supporters of President Adams (known as "Adams men", later becoming the "Anti-Jacksonians" and the National Republican Party) and the supporters of Andrew Jackson (known as "Jacksonians", later becoming the Democratic Party).

The House of Representatives of the 19th United States Congress met for the first time at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 1825, and 32 of the representatives, among them Egbert Ten Eyck took their seats on this day. Rose took his seat on December 7; and Whitmore on January 16, 1826.[17]

On December 9, 1825, Henry R. Storrs presented a petition on behalf of Daniel Hugunin Jr. contesting the election of Egbert Ten Eyck in the 20th District. On December 15, the Committee on Elections submitted its report. They found that 142 votes in St. Lawrence County, and 53 votes in Lewis County had been returned for "Daniel Hugunin"; and 275 votes in Jefferson County had been returned for "Daniel Hugunin, junior"; all these listed among the "scattering votes." The Secretary of State of New York, receiving the abovementioned result, issued credentials for Ten Eyck who took his seat when Congress met on December 5. The petition included testimony by the election inspectors that 271 votes in Watertown, 93 votes in Madrid, and 48 votes in Louisville had been in fact given for "Daniel Hugunin, jun." but had been certified mistakenly. Adding these votes to the 5,188 returned for "Daniel Hugunin, jun.", Hugunin had a recognized total of 5,600 votes, 116 more than Ten Eyck. The committee declared Hugunin Jr., entitled to the seat instead of Ten Eyck. The House concurred without opposition, and Hugunin Jr., took his seat.[18]

After Hugunin Jr. was seated on December 15, 1825, of the 34 representatives from New York there were 25 Adams men and 9 Jacksonians: the People's Party men supported Adams; the Bucktails supported Jackson, except Porter who was described as an "Adams Bucktail."

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 14 Democratic-Republican, 4 Federalist
  2. ^ Both Democratic-Republican
  3. ^ John Rathbone Jr.; assemblyman 1823
  4. ^ Charles G. Haines (ca. 1793 Canterbury, New Hampshire - July 3, 1825), lawyer; Gov. DeWitt Clinton's private secretary; Adjutant General of the State Militia 1825 (died in office); see Biography of Self Taught Men by Bela Bates Edwards & Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (pages 219ff)
  5. ^ John Lounsbery, assemblyman 1806, 1811, 1826; state senator 1818–1821; Postmaster of Stone Ridge
  6. ^ William V. B. Hermance, County Clerk of Greene Co. 1832-1840
  7. ^ Dr. Amos Hamlin, physician and painter, of Durham
  8. ^ Constant Brown, Sheriff of Schoharie County 1821-1825
  9. ^ James Lynch, assemblyman 1814, 1814-15, 1816 and 1823
  10. ^ John Gale (b. ca. 1769), of Galesville (now Middle Falls, a hamlet partly in the Town of Easton), Postmaster of Easton from 1813; assemblyman 1810, 1814-15, 1816-17 and 1819; Sheriff of Washington Co. 1821-1825; presidential elector 1832 and 1836
  11. ^ Horace Allen, First Judge of the St. Lawrence County Court 1838-1843
  12. ^ John Lynde, of Cortland Co., assemblyman 1826
  13. ^ Aaron Remer, of Yates Co., assemblyman 1822, 1823, 1824, 1831 and 1832
  14. ^ William Hotchkiss, First Judge of the Niagara County Court 1818-1823; assemblyman 1820-21; D.A. of Niagara County 1833-1836
  15. ^ John G. Camp, Sheriff of Erie County 1821-1822 and 1826-1828
  16. ^ The mode of electing presidential electors was changed soon after, and at the 1828 United States presidential election, 34 electors were elected in the congressional districts and two "electors-at large" were then co-opted by the other 34 electors. The electoral vote was 20 for Jackson and 16 for Adams.
  17. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives (19th C., 1st S., pages 4, 27 and 148)
  18. ^ Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834 compiled by Matthew St. Clair Clarke and David A. Hall (Washington, D.C., 1834; Case LIII, pages 501ff)

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