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1816 Georgia's at-large congressional district special election

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In December 1816, a special election was held in Georgia's at-large district to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert (DR) on November 9. Cuthbert himself had been elected in a special election in 1813.

Election results

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Candidate Party Votes[1] Percent
Zadock Cook Democratic-Republican 1,167 39.5%
Thomas U.P. Charlton [2] 1,130 38.3%
Moore[3] [2] 372 12.6%
Walker[3] [2] 285 9.6%

Cook took his seat in Congress on January 23, 1817.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ "View Election". Retrieved December 20, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ^ a b c Party affiliation not given in source, presumably Democratic-Republican given the near-non-existence of the Federalist Party in Georgia in this time period
  3. ^ a b Full name not given in source
  4. ^ "Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817" (PDF). Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2015. footnote 7
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