The 1824 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from November 1 to 3, 1824, to elect 34 U.S. Representatives to represent the State of New York in the United States House of Representatives of the 19th United States Congress.
Background 34 U.S. Representatives had been elected in November 1822 to a term in the 18th United States Congress, beginning on March 4, 1823. William B. Rochester had resigned his seat in April 1823, and William Woods was elected to fill the vacancy. Parmenio Adams had contested the election of Isaac Wilson, and was seated in January 1824. The representatives' term would end on March 3, 1825. The elections were held with the annual State election on the first Monday in November and the two succeeding days, about four months before the congressional term began, and a little more than a year before Congress actually met on December 5, 1825.
At this time the Democratic-Republican Party in New York was split into two opposing factions: on one side, the supporters of DeWitt Clinton and his Erie Canal project; on the other side, the Bucktails (including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City), led by Martin Van Buren. At the same time, the Federalist Party had already disbanded, and most of its former members had joined the Clintonians.
At the same time, party lines broke down concerning the 1824 United States presidential election. The Bucktails' leader Van Buren supported William H. Crawford, and most of the Clintonians supported John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay also disputed the election, but found more support in other States. Since 1792, presidential electors had been elected by the New York State Legislature, but with a four-way race in the offing, a movement to change the mode of election was started: The "People's Party" advocated the election of presidential electors by popular ballot in districts, and nominated DeWitt Clinton for Governor of New York.
Congressional districts The geographical area of the congressional districts remained the same as at the previous elections in 1822. Two new counties were created within the 26th district: Wayne Co. and Yates Co. The 1st district comprising Queens and Suffolk counties. The 2nd district comprising Kings, Richmond and Rockland counties. The 3rd district (three seats) comprising New York County. The 4th district comprising Westchester and Putnam counties. The 5th district comprising Dutchess County. The 6th district comprising Orange County. The 7th district comprising Ulster and Sullivan counties. The 8th district comprising Columbia County. The 9th district comprising Rensselaer County. The 10th district comprising Albany County. The 11th district comprising Delaware and Greene counties. The 12th district comprising Schenectady and Schoharie counties. The 13th district comprising Otsego County. The 14th district comprising Oneida County. The 15th district comprising Herkimer County. The 16th district comprising Montgomery County. The 17th district comprising Saratoga County. The 18th district comprising Washington County. The 19th district comprising Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Warren counties. The 20th district (two seats) comprising St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis and Oswego counties. The 21st district comprising Chenango and Broome counties. The 22nd district comprising Madison and Cortland counties. The 23rd district comprising Onondaga County. The 24th district comprising Cayuga County. The 25th district comprising Tioga and Tompkins counties. The 26th district (two seats) comprising Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties. The 27th district comprising Monroe and Livingston counties. The 28th district comprising Steuben, Allegany and Cattaraugus counties. The 29th district comprising Genesee County. The 30th district comprising Niagara, Chautauqua and Erie counties.
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.
Result 23 People's Party men and 11 Bucktails were declared elected. The incumbents Wood, Cambreleng, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Storrs, Taylor, Martindale, Ten Eyck, Marvin, Rose, Hayden and Adams were re-elected; the incumbents Sharpe, Craig, Herkimer, Clark, Litchfield, Day and Woods were defeated.
+1824 United States House election result District People's Party Democratic-Republican/Bucktails also ran 1st Silas Wood 2,140James Lent 1,398 2nd Joshua Sands 1,683John T. Bergen 1,484 3rdJohn Rathbone Jr.John Rathbone Jr.; assemblyman 1823 3,981 Churchill C. Cambreleng 5,718Henry Wheaton 750Charles G. HainesCharles G. Haines (ca. 1793 Canterbury, New Hampshire - July 3, 1825), lawyer; Gov. DeWitt Clinton's private secretary; Adjutant General of the State Militia 1825 (died in office); see Biography of Self Taught Men by Bela Bates Edwards & Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (pages 219ff) 3,857 Gulian C. Verplanck 4,877Peter Sharpe 3,741 Jeromus Johnson 4,5884th Aaron Ward 1,586Jonathan Ward 1,297John Hunter (Buckt.) 1,1885th Bartow White 3,596Peter R. Livingston 3,2106thHector Craig 1,978 John Hallock Jr. 2,105Walter Case (Buckt.) 3747th Abraham B. Hasbrouck 2,917John LounsberyJohn Lounsbery, assemblyman 1806, 1811, 1826; state senator 1818–1821; Postmaster of Stone Ridge 2,7818th James Strong 3,130Robert Le Roy Livingston 2,0899th William McManus 3,807George R. Davis 2,92510th Stephen Van Rensselaer 3,85011thWilliam V. B. HermanceWilliam V. B. Hermance, County Clerk of Greene Co. 1832-1840 2,698 Henry Ashley 3,531Amos HamlinDr. Amos Hamlin, physician and painter, of Durham 6412thConstant BrownConstant Brown, Sheriff of Schoharie County 1821-1825 2,129 William Dietz 2,810Henry Greene (PP) 5413thWilliam Campbell 2,357 William G. Angel 3,37914th Henry R. Storrs 4,146James LynchJames Lynch, assemblyman 1814, 1814-15, 1816 and 1823 3,09415thJohn Herkimer 2,164 Michael Hoffman 2,41016th Henry Markell 3,115William I. Dodge 2,14817th John W. Taylor 3,85818th Henry C. Martindale 3,449John GaleJohn Gale (b. ca. 1769), of Galesville (now Middle Falls, a hamlet partly in the Town of Easton), Postmaster of Easton from 1813; assemblyman 1810, 1814-15, 1816-17 and 1819; Sheriff of Washington Co. 1821-1825; presidential elector 1832 and 1836 1,893 19th Henry H. Ross 3,210William Hogan 2,933 20th Nicoll Fosdick 5,676Horace AllenHorace Allen, First Judge of the St. Lawrence County Court 1838-1843 5,472"Daniel Hugunin, junior" 275Daniel Hugunin, jun. 5,188 Egbert Ten Eyck 5,484"Daniel Hugunin" 195 21st Elias Whitmore 3,128Lot Clark 3,073 22nd John Miller 3,857John LyndeJohn Lynde, of Cortland Co., assemblyman 1826 3,24323rd Luther Badger 3,214Elisha Litchfield 3,11624th Charles Kellogg 3,372Rowland Day 2,97625th Charles Humphrey 3,144David Woodcock 2,999 26th Dudley Marvin 8,367John Maynard 4,438 Robert S. Rose 4,901Aaron RemerAaron Remer, of Yates Co., assemblyman 1822, 1823, 1824, 1831 and 1832 2,73227th Moses Hayden 4,456Charles H. Carroll 3,02828thDaniel Cruger 1,693 Timothy H. Porter 2,100William Woods (Buckt.) 1,93729th Parmenio Adams 4,035Isaac Wilson 2,96930thWilliam HotchkissWilliam Hotchkiss, First Judge of the Niagara County Court 1818-1823; assemblyman 1820-21; D.A. of Niagara County 1833-1836 2,235 Daniel G. Garnsey 2,387John G. CampJohn G. Camp, Sheriff of Erie County 1821-1822 and 1826-1828 (Buckt.) 2,127
Note: Of the People's Party candidates, Wood, Sands, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Campbell and Storrs were old Federalists; Haines, Craig, Taylor, Marvin, Hayden and Adams were old Clintonians; and Sharpe, Herkimer, Martindale and Rose were elected as Bucktails in 1822.
Aftermath, presidential election and contested election No change in the mode of election of presidential electors was enacted this year.The mode of electing presidential electors was changed soon after, and at the 1828 United States presidential election, 34 electors were elected in the congressional districts and two "electors-at large" were then co-opted by the other 34 electors. The electoral vote was 20 for Jackson and 16 for Adams. On November 11, 1824, the New York State Legislature chose 36 presidential electors of whom 26 voted for John Quincy Adams, 5 for William H. Crawford, 4 for Henry Clay and 1 for Andrew Jackson. No candidate received a majority in the electoral college vote at the 1824 United States presidential election, and the election was referred to the House of Representatives, to choose among the three most voted candidates: Adams, Jackson and Crawford. Henry Clay supported Adams, so that after the contingent election on February 9, 1825, one month before the end of the term of the 18th Congress, the members were back-labeled (according to their actual vote) as "Adams-Clay Democratic-Republicans" (Sharpe, Van Wyck, Williams, Herkimer, Cady, Taylor, Martindale, Lawrence, Marvin, Rose, Hayden, Woods, Adams and Tracy), "Jackson Democratic-Republicans" (Morgan and Craig), "Crawford Democratic-Republicans" (Tyson, Cambreleng, Frost, Jenkins, Hoogeboom, Foote, Eaton, Richards, Ten Eyck, Collins, Clark, Dwinell, Litchfield, Day) and "Adams-Clay Federalists" (Wood, Strong, Van Rensselaer, Storrs).
After this fiasco, Martin Van Buren abandoned Crawford, and re-organized his Bucktails supporting Andrew Jackson. In the 19th Congress the members were split into the supporters of President Adams (known as "Adams men", later becoming the "Anti-Jacksonians" and the National Republican Party) and the supporters of Andrew Jackson (known as "Jacksonians", later becoming the Democratic Party).
The House of Representatives of the 19th United States Congress met for the first time at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 1825, and 32 of the representatives, among them Egbert Ten Eyck took their seats on this day. Rose took his seat on December 7; and Whitmore on January 16, 1826.Journal of the House of Representatives (19th C., 1st S., pages 4, 27 and 148)
On December 9, 1825, Henry R. Storrs presented a petition on behalf of Daniel Hugunin Jr. contesting the election of Egbert Ten Eyck in the 20th District. On December 15, the Committee on Elections submitted its report. They found that 142 votes in St. Lawrence County, and 53 votes in Lewis County had been returned for "Daniel Hugunin"; and 275 votes in Jefferson County had been returned for "Daniel Hugunin, junior"; all these listed among the "scattering votes." The Secretary of State of New York, receiving the abovementioned result, issued credentials for Ten Eyck who took his seat when Congress met on December 5. The petition included testimony by the election inspectors that 271 votes in Watertown, 93 votes in Madrid, and 48 votes in Louisville had been in fact given for "Daniel Hugunin, jun." but had been certified mistakenly. Adding these votes to the 5,188 returned for "Daniel Hugunin, jun.", Hugunin had a recognized total of 5,600 votes, 116 more than Ten Eyck. The committee declared Hugunin Jr., entitled to the seat instead of Ten Eyck. The House concurred without opposition, and Hugunin Jr., took his seat.Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834 compiled by Matthew St. Clair Clarke and David A. Hall (Washington, D.C., 1834; Case LIII, pages 501ff)
After Hugunin Jr. was seated on December 15, 1825, of the 34 representatives from New York there were 25 Adams men and 9 Jacksonians: the People's Party men supported Adams; the Bucktails supported Jackson, except Porter who was described as an "Adams Bucktail."
See also 1824 and 1825 United States House of Representatives elections List of United States representatives from New York
Notes
Sources The New York Civil List compiled in 1858 (see: pg. 66 for district apportionment; pg. 71 for Congressmen; page 321 pr New York's electoral votes; page 326 for New York's presidential electors)