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unusual facts about United States House of Representatives elections, 1856


William Millward

He was unsuccessful as the Unionist candidate for reelection in 1856, but was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served as U. S. Representative for the fourth district of Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861.


Albert Salter

He is historically most notable for having discovered magnetic abnormalities at what is now Creighton Mine in Greater Sudbury, while surveying a baseline westward from Lake Nipissing in 1856.

Alexander Coutanche, Baron Coutanche

Coutanche was born in Saint Saviour, Jersey; the younger son and third child to Adolphus Arnold Coutanche (1856–1921) and Jane Alexandrina Finlayson (d. 1909).

Andrew Agnew

Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet (1818–1892), his son, British MP for Wigtownshire 1856–1868

Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), chemist; responsible for Avogadro's law

Barrie Leslie Konicov

Konicov's Libertarian political leanings eventually led him to a 1994 bid for Michigan district 3 seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Codex Nitriensis

S. P. Tregelles, An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, London 1856, pp.

Conrad Krez

Krez was City Attorney of Sheboygan from 1856 to 1859 and District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin from 1859 to 1862 and again from 1870 to 1876.

Cruizer-class sloop

Renamed Cruiser in 1856, she served on the China station during the Second Opium War, including the taking of Canton and the attack on the Taku Forts on the Peiho river in 1859.

District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

The seat was re-created almost a century later, shortly before the 1970 elections; Walter E. Fauntroy (D) won the 1971 special election the following March.

Edgar E. Clark

Edgar Erastus Clark (February 18, 1856 – December 1, 1930) was an American attorney, government official, and union official, who served on the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1906 to 1921, and was its chairman during 1913–1914 and 1918–1921.

Edward Tanjore Corwin

He was born in New York City, July 12, 1834; graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1853, and at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. in 1856.

Erastus Corning

In 1856, shortly after finishing the St. Mary's River project, Corning was elected as a Democrat to the 35th, 37th and 38th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859, and from March 4, 1861, to October 5, 1863, when he resigned.

Governor of Wisconsin

The longest-serving governor was Tommy Thompson, from January 5, 1987 until February 1, 2001, a total of 14 years and 28 days; the shortest-serving was Arthur MacArthur, Sr., from March 21, 1856 until March 25 of the same year; a total of 5 days.

Grant City, Staten Island

Many of the streets are named after historical figures such as Lincoln Ave (after President Abraham Lincoln), Fremont Ave (after General John C. Fremont who was the first Republican candidate for President, as well as a Staten Island resident, in 1856), Adams Avenue (after President John Adams), Colfax Ave (after Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President)and Greeley Ave (after newspaper editor Horace Greeley).

Harry de Windt

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (Harry's sister Margaret was Brooke's wife), and is best known as an explorer and travel writer.

Hartford City, West Virginia

Salt extraction began in 1856, by capitalists from Connecticut named Morgan Buckley and William Healey, who named the town for Hartford.

Henri Gougerot

He was the publisher of Archives dermato-syphiligraphiques de la clinique de l’hôpital Saint-Louis, and with Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) and Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), was editor of Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique; an eight-volume work on dermatology.

Henry Kinney

In February 1856, Walker--now head of state--annexed all of the Mosquito Coast, including Kinney's domain, for Nicaragua.

Henry Osborn

Henry Osborn Taylor (1856–1941), American historian and legal scholar

Hereditary Revenues Act 1856

The Hereditary Revenues Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict c 43) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist and mineralogist, known as Johann Nepomuk Fuchs until 1854

John B. Snook

Snook's 620 Broadway (1858) – called the "Little Cary Building" for its resemblance to the Cary Building by Gamaliel King and John Kellum (1856) – was fronted with cast iron from Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

Katinka Kendeffy

She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856, when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Madison Township, Daviess County, Indiana

In the 1856 spring elections, the Know Nothing movement was popular in Madison Township, and the Democrats nominated Perkins for township clerk; to their surprise, he won, and his actions in office won him the reputation of one of the best clerks the township ever had.

Michael Friedländer

His son-in-law was Moses Gaster (1856–1939), the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist.

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Nichols Canyon was named after John G. Nichols who served as mayor of Los Angeles, California between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1856 to 1859.

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Powell v. McCormack

While the suit was making its way through the court system, Powell was re-elected in the 1968 election, and was ultimately re-seated in the 91st Congress.

Radvaň, Banská Bystrica

Writer Andrej Sládkovič lived and worked in Radvaň from 1856 until his death in 1872.

Rene Morgan La Montagne, Sr.

(1856–1910) was treasurer and director of E. Montagne's Sons, a champion polo player, and one of the founders of the Rockaway Hunt Club in Cedarhurst, New York on Long Island.

Sean Eldridge

In early 2013, he filed paperwork to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, challenging incumbent Chris Gibson in New York's 19th congressional district.

Siegfried Lipiner

Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.

Skeppsbron

N.20, Brandstodsbolagets hus ("House of the Fire-insurance Company"), designed by Isak Gustaf Clason (1856–1930) and built by the turn of the century 1900 in the style of Tessin the Younger.

Thomas Satterwhite Noble

One of his most famous paintings is The Modern Medea (1867) which portrays a tragic event from 1856 in which Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave mother, has murdered one of her children, rather than see it returned to slavery.

Tom A. Yon

Yon was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1926 election, and was twice reelected, serving from March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933, in the 70th, 71st, and 72nd Congresses.

Uersfeld

However, for want of any archaeological investigation, it is uncertain from what time they date, but the grave robberies and Court Counsellor Comes’s (1774-1856) resulting collection in Cochem have yielded some idea of the time.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1974

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1974 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 4, 1974.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1984

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1984 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1984.

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2002

Incumbent Republican Congressman Nathan Deal was initially elected to Congress in 1992 as a Democrat, but switched to his current affiliation as a Republican in 1995 and has been re-elected without substantive opposition ever since.

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Georgia), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2000

These elections were held concurrently with the United States Senate elections of 2000, the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Hawaii), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 1790

Elections for the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd Congress were held in Massachusetts on October 4, 1790, with subsequent elections held in four districts due to a majority not being achieved on the first ballot.

United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, 2004

These elections were held concurrently with the United States presidential election of 2004, United States Senate elections of 2004 (including one in Oklahoma), the United States House elections in other states, and various state and local elections.

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1964

During the Concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third district House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

United States v. More

Jefferson's party also took control of Congress in the House and Senate elections.

Uruma, Okinawa

The island, which was sighted by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794 – 1858), was recorded as "Ichey Island" in the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, published in 1856 by Francis L. Hawks.

William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel

He died in February 1856, aged 54, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel.

William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester

#Lady Louisa Augusta Beatrice Montagu (Kimbolton Castle, 17 January 1856 – London, 3 March 1944), married London, 10 August 1876 Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford and had issue.


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