New Jersey 1789 U.S. House of Representatives
- Office:
- U.S. House of Representatives (Federal)
- Title:
- U.S. Congressman
- Jurisdiction:
- Federal
- Label:
- New Jersey 1789 U.S. House of Representatives
- Date:
- 1789
- State:
- New Jersey
- Type:
- General
- Iteration:
- First Ballot
- Office/Role:
- U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Congressman
- Candidates:
- James Schureman, Lambert Cadwallader, Elias Boudinot, Thomas Sinnickson, Abraham Clark, Jonathan Dayton, Robert Hoops, Whitten Cripps, Benjamin Van Cleve, James Parker, John Witherspoon, Thomas Henderson, Robert L. Hooper, Josiah Hornblower, James Linn, Aaron Kitchel, John Stevens, Jr., William Winds, John Stevens, John Fell, Silas Condit, Henry Stites, Robert Ogden, Charles Stewart, Alex MacWhorter, Benjamin Thompson, Abraham Kitchel, Kitchel, Joseph Sheppard, John Rutherford, William Woodhull, Abraham Ogden, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Samuel Tuthill, Jacob Hardenburgh, Thomas Fenimore, Hugh Hughes, John Armstrong, Patrick Dennis, John Mehelm, John Neilson, Samuel Smith, Mark Thompson
| Candidates: | James Schureman[1] | Lambert Cadwallader[2] | Elias Boudinot[3] | Thomas Sinnickson[4] | Abraham Clark | Jonathan Dayton | Robert Hoops | Whitten Cripps | Benjamin Van Cleve | James Parker | John Witherspoon | Thomas Henderson | Robert L. Hooper | Josiah Hornblower | James Linn | Aaron Kitchel | John Stevens, Jr. | William Winds | John Stevens | John Fell | Silas Condit | Henry Stites | Robert Ogden | Charles Stewart | Alex MacWhorter | Benjamin Thompson | Abraham Kitchel | Kitchel | Joseph Sheppard | John Rutherford | William Woodhull | Abraham Ogden | Frederick Frelinghuysen | Samuel Tuthill | Jacob Hardenburgh | Thomas Fenimore | Hugh Hughes | John Armstrong | Patrick Dennis | John Mehelm | John Neilson | Samuel Smith | Mark Thompson |
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| Affiliation: | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Final Result: [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] | 13871 | 9051 | 8702 | 8364 | 7287 | 6859 | 2562 | 2375 | 1983 | 1724 | 1711 | 1156 | 964 | 708 | 515 | 396 | 258 | 230 | 184 | 137 | 107 | 69 | 65 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 32 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bergen County[15] | 366 | - | 286 | - | 125 | 358 | - | - | - | - | - | 155 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 124 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burlington County[16][17][18] | 2686 | 2728 | 2763 | 2800 | 7 | 118 | 20 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cape May County[19] | 984 | 1312 | 575 | 929 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Essex County | 1274 | 17 | 448 | 124 | 2762 | 2984 | 505 | 469 | 206 | 248 | 105 | 290 | 188 | 679 | 13 | 268 | - | 223 | 1 | 13 | 106 | 69 | 64 | 1 | 52 | - | 30 | - | 20 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Gloucester County | 3267 | 3269 | 3270 | 3271 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hunterdon County | 946 | 455 | 185 | 131 | 710 | 135 | 468 | 32 | 754 | 247 | 635 | 94 | 586 | - | - | - | 158 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middlesex County[20] | 898 | 38 | 57 | 104 | 682 | 403 | 17 | 6 | 160 | 446 | 503 | 170 | - | 16 | - | 15 | 81 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Monmouth County | 434 | 66 | 352 | 21 | 213 | 406 | - | 5 | 159 | 142 | 47 | 445 | 131 | - | - | 99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Morris County[21] | 1160 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1180 | 1241 | 416 | 532 | 475 | 529 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 23 | 12 | - | 4 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 42 | 2 | - | - | - | 9 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Salem County | 220 | 731 | 672 | 886 | 35 | 41 | - | 700 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Somerset County[22] | 992 | 23 | 30 | 72 | 899 | 774 | 110 | 489 | 19 | 26 | 189 | - | - | - | 244 | - | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex County[23] | 664 | 404 | 48 | 21 | 674 | 397 | 1026 | 141 | 203 | 86 | 219 | - | 40 | - | 235 | 2 | - | 3 | 177 | - | - | - | 1 | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Notes:
[1]Elected.
[2]Elected.
[3]Elected.
[4]Elected.
[5]According to The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), January 21, J. Bloomfield, Samuel Dick, Joseph Smith, Col. J. Cox, S. W. Stockton, J. Kinsey, J. Beatty, J. Chetwood and Patrick Dennis were nominated but declined to serve. Philemon Dickinson, Joseph Ellis, Robert S. Jones, and Jeremiah Eldridge are listed as nominees, but they are not in results lists printed after the election.
[6]The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ) states that not all the votes for many candidates in nomination were reported. Essex, Gloucester, Monmouth, Morris, Sussex and probably Burlington are counties with complete returns.
[7]The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), January 21, uses the name Scureman for James Schureman, Ketchel for Aaron and Abraham Kitchel, Stites for Henry Stiles, the Hughs for Hugh Hughes.
[8]The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), February 25, uses the spelling Schuurman for James Schureman.
[9]The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA), March 11, uses the spelling Shureman for James Schureman.
[10]The Sussex County Original Election Certificate uses the spelling Schuerman for James Schureman, Weatherspoon for John Witherspoon, Crips for Whitten Cripps, Mehelms for John Mehelm, and Freelenhousen for Frederick Frelinghuysen.
[11]The Sussex County Original Election Certificate and The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), February 25, use the spelling Vancleve for Benjamin Van Cleve.
[12]The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), February 25, uses the spelling Fennemore for Thomas Fenimore and Hughs for Hugh Hughes.
[13]In addition to votes cast for Aaron Kitchel and for Abraham Kitchel, 23 votes in Hunterdon County and 2 votes in Sussex County were cast for Kitchel, without a first name.
[14]"The following is a true list of the names of every Candidate nominated to the choice of the people of this State as Representatives in the Congress of the United States and returned to me by the respective Clerks of the Courts of Common Pleas in the several Counties of this State and which according to the directions of a certain act of the Legislature in that behalf lately made and provided, I am to cause to be published in certain Newspapers therein mentioned, viz. ."Given under my hand the nineteenth day of January 1789. "WIL. LIVINGSTON. "A correspondent reminds us that the important time is now drawing near, when we must determine on the security of our freedom, by a prudent choice of Representatives for the Congress of the United States.--It therefore requires the independent, and unremitted exertions of every honest member of the community; not only in guarding against the deceptions of the artful and ambitious, (whose motive are ever concealed under the delusive wiles of plausibility,) but also to gain a representation that not only knows, but feels, the wants and wishes of their constituents:--Those who know where the burthen lies and whose shoulders are already placed to its support; whose property is not accumulated from public employment, and whose minds are free from Local Views.--If such characters can be elected, (and such we have among us) we may expect a favorable alteration in government, but a bad administration of the best government, in the universe, will prove oppressive to its community." The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ). January 21, 1789.
[15]The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ), March 3, does not list any results for John Fell.
[16]The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA), March 11, lists 2628 votes for Lambert Cadwallader and 2689 votes for James Schureman.
[17]"We are informed, by good authority, that on Tuesday last the poll was closed for the election of Federal Representatives in the county of Burlington, in our sister state of New Jersey. Upon counting off the tickets, (in all 2826) the following gentleman had the highest number of votes, viz." The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post (Philadelphia, PA). March 11, 1789.
[18]"The list of votes from Burlington County published last week was not a just one, but the following is exact." The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ). March 10, 1789.
[19]The votes from Cumberland County were included with the votes from Cape May County.
[20]The Daily Advertiser (New York, NY), February 24, and The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), February 25, list 915 votes for James Schureman, 679 votes for Abraham Clark, 105 for Thomas Sinnickson, 35 votes for Lambert Cadwallader, and no votes for Robert Hoops.
[21]The Daily Advertiser (New York, NY), February 24, does not list any votes for Thomas Henderson, John Witherspoon, Thomas Sinickson, or Lambert Cadwallader.
[22]The Daily Advertiser (New York, NY), February 24, and The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ), February 25, list 784 votes for Jonathan Dayton, 470 votes for Whitten Cripps, and 274 votes for James Linn
[23]The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ), March 3, lists 644 votes for James Schureman and 177 votes for Charles Stewart.
References:
Essex County Original Election Certificate.
Gloucester County Original Election Certificate.
Monmouth County Original Election Certificate.
Sussex County Original Election Certificate.
The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ). January 21, 1789.
The Daily Advertiser (New York, NY). February 24, 1789.
The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ). February 24, 1789.
The New-Jersey Journal, and Political Intelligencer (Elizabethtown, NJ). February 25, 1789.
The Daily Advertiser (New York, NY). February 26, 1789.
The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ). March 3, 1789.
The Brunswick Gazette, and Weekly Monitor (New Brunswick, NJ). March 10, 1789.
The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post (Philadelphia, PA). March 11, 1789.
The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA). March 25, 1789.
The Providence Gazette: and Country Journal (Providence, RI). April 11, 1789.
Prince, Carl E., ed. The Papers of William Livingston. Vol. 5: April, 1783-1790. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988. 108-116, 150-151.
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