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28 unusual facts about 14th United States Congress


Abiel Wood

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress, but served as delegate to the constitutional convention of Maine in 1819.

Abraham H. Schenck

Schenck was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815–March 3, 1817).

Adamson Tannehill

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress.

Alfred Cuthbert

Cuthbert was elected as a Democratic-Republican Representative to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Bibb, and was reelected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from December 13, 1813, to November 9, 1816, when he resigned.

Archibald S. Clarke

Clarke was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter B. Porter and served from December 2, 1816, to March 3, 1817.

Bolling Hall

He was elected as a Republican to the 12th, 13th and 14th United States Congresses serving from March 4, 1811, until March 3, 1817.

Daniel Cady

Cady was elected as a Federalist to the 14th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.

Elijah Brigham

Brigham was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816.

Elisha I. Winter

He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815),an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress, but moved to a farm near Lexington, Kentucky, and engaged as a planter.

Enos T. Throop

The same year he was elected to the 14th United States Congress as a supporter of the war measures of the administration.

James M. Wallace

Wallace was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the declination of Amos Ellmaker to serve.

John W. Hulbert

He was reelected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from September 26, 1814, to March 3, 1817.

Jonathan Fisk

He was again elected to the 13th and 14th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1813 to March 21, 1815, when he accepted a recess appointment by President James Madison as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Lewis Williams

He was first elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1812, serving for a single term (1813-1814) before being elected to the 14th United States Congress as a (Jeffersonian) Republican in 1814.

Micah Taul

Taul was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817).

Peter H. Wendover

Wendover was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821).

Samuel Dana

Dana was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress.

Samuel S. Conner

Conner was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817).

Solomon P. Sharp

Sharp was re-elected to the Fourteenth Congress, during which he served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Thomas Burnside

Burnside was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Bard and served unil his resignation in April 1816.

Thomas Telfair

Telfair was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 13th and 14th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817.

Victory Birdseye

Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 14th United States Congress, Birdseye held the office of United States Representative for the nineteenth district of New York from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.

Westel Willoughby, Jr.

He successfully contested as a Democratic-Republican the election of William S. Smith to the Fourteenth Congress and served from December 13, 1815, to March 3, 1817.

William Lattimore

Lattimore was elected as a Delegate to the 8th and 9th Congresses that lasted (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807), he was also elected to the 13th and 14th Congresses (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817) as well.

William Mayrant

William Mayrant was elected in 1814 as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress and served until his resignation on October 21, 1816 (March 4, 1815-October 21, 1816).

William Milnor

He was elected to the Fourteenth Congress, and again elected to the Seventeenth Congress and served until his resignation on May 8, 1822.

William Plunkett Maclay

Maclay was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Burnside.

Zadock Cook

He was elected as a Republican to the 14th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert.