Pennsylvania 1806 Speaker of the House

Office:: Speaker of the House (State)
Title:: Speaker of the House
Jurisdiction:: State

Label:: Pennsylvania 1806 Speaker of the House
Date:: 1806
State:: Pennsylvania
Type:: Legislative
Iteration:: First Ballot
Office/Role:: Speaker of the House/Speaker of the House
Candidates:: Simon Snyder, Samuel D. Ingham

Candidates:	Simon Snyder [1]	Samuel D. Ingham
Affiliation:	Republican	Constitutionalist
Final Result: [2][3]	42	41
House of Representatives	42	41

Notes:

[1]Elected.

[2]"So that P.C. Lane is elected speaker of the senate and Simon Snyder speaker of the house of representatives, each by a majority of ONE VOTE." The Crawford Weekly Messenger (Meadville, PA). December 18, 1806.

[3]William Barnet and George S. Bensell were absent for the vote.

References:

Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette (Carlisle, PA). December 12, 1806.

The Crawford Weekly Messenger (Meadville, PA). December 18, 1806.

Page Images

handwritten notes — Phil's original notebook pages that were used to compile this election. These notes are considered a draft of the electronic version. Therefore, the numbers may not match. To verify numbers you will need to check the original sources cited. Some original source material is available at the American Antiquarian Society).

These election records were released on 11 January 2012. Versions numbers are assigned by state. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are complete and are in Version 1.0. All other states are in a Beta version. For more information go to the about page.