On September 24, 1815, John Sevier (DR), representative for Tennessee's 2nd district, died in office. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy December 7–8, 1815.[1]

Election results

Candidate Party Votes[2] Percent
William G. Blount Democratic-Republican 1,583 48.4%
John Cocke Democratic-Republican 1,355 41.5%
George Dougherty 330 10.1%

Blount took office on January 8, 1816[3]

See also

References

  1. "View Election". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013.
  2. "View Election". Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) footnote 65
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