1815 Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district special election explained

On July 2, 1815, Representative-elect Amos Ellmaker (DR) of resigned after being appointed and commissioned president judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylkill, and before the 14th Congress' first session began. A special election was held on October 10, 1815, to fill the vacancy left by his resignation.

Election results

Candidate	Party	Votes^[1]	Percent
	James M. Wallace		Democratic-Republican	5,016	55.4%
	Phillip Gloninger		Federalist	4,031	44.6%

Wallace took his seat on December 4, 1815^[2] at the start of the 1st session of the 14th Congress.

See also

• List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cox . Harold E. . 14th Congress 18151817 . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . January 13, 2007.
2. Web site: Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817 . February 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206143055/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/14.pdf . Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives . December 6, 2014 . footnote 54