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The Pennsylvania election was held January 19, 1869. John Scott was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [9] The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 19, 1869, to elect a Senator to serve the term beginning on March 4, 1869. The results of the vote of both houses ...
The 1869 Texas gubernatorial election was held to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Governor Elisha M. Pease, who had been appointed by military governor Philip Sheridan, did not run for re-election. Edmund J. Davis defeated former Governor Andrew J. Hamilton narrowly.
Virginia's elections of 1869 occurred during the post-American Civil War Reconstruction Era and included African-American candidates and so-called "carpetbaggers", politicians from the North, often former Union Army officers, who ran in elections in southern states then under the authority of the Federal government and U.S. Army.
The 1869 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 12, 1869. Incumbent governor John W. Geary , a Republican, was a candidate for re-election. Geary defeated Democratic candidate Asa Packer to win another term.
The new Constitution of 1869 had provided in Article III, Section 6, that all elections would be held "at the county seats of the several counties until otherwise provided by law; and the polls shall be opened for four days."
December 6, 1869 Massachusetts 7th: George S. Boutwell (R) Resigned March 12, 1869, after being appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury: George M. Brooks (R) November 2, 1869 Pennsylvania 3rd: John Moffet (D) Lost contested election April 9, 1869 Leonard Myers (R) April 9, 1869 Wisconsin 2nd: Benjamin F. Hopkins (R) Died January 1, 1870
The 1862–63 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, occurring during the American Civil War.As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
Lucero v. United States was a Supreme Court of the United States decision that ruled the Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico wasn't legally protected under the Nonintercourse Acts. The Nonintercourse Act established federally recognized Indian reservations in the United States. Under one of those acts, Native American reservation land couldn't be sold ...