Maryland's 6th congressional district

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Maryland's 6th congressional district
Area 3,062.27 mi²
Distribution 60.5% urban, 39.5% rural
Population (2000) 662,060
Median income $50,957
Ethnic composition 92.3% White, 4.9% Black, 1% Asian, 1.4% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American, 0.5% other
Occupation 30% blue collar, 61.5% white collar, 14.1% gray collar
Cook PVI R+13

Maryland's Sixth Congressional District elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. Today the district comprises all of Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll Counties, as well as portions of Montgomery, Baltimore, and Harford Counties. The seat is currently represented by Roscoe Bartlett (R).

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[edit] History

The Maryland 6th District was one of the original districts that had a congressman starting in 1789. At this point the district had essentially its modern boundaries,consisting of the Maryland panhandle and areas eastward, all the way to the modern western boundary of the District of Columbia. However after the 1790 census Maryland's representation increased to 8 congresspersons. The new sixth district was in the north-east corner of the state east of Baltimore, covering essentially the modern counties of Harford, Cecil and Kent.[1]

[edit] Recent elections

[edit] List of representatives

Representative Took office Left office Party
1 Daniel Carroll March 4, 1789 March 3, 1791 Pro-Administration
2 Upton Sheredine March 4, 1791 March 3, 1793 None
3 Gabriel Christie March 4, 1793 March 3, 1797 Anti-Administration, Democratic-Republican
4 William Matthews March 4, 1797 March 3, 1799 Federalist
5 Gabriel Christie March 4, 1799 March 3, 1801 Democratic-Republican
6 John Archer March 4, 1801 March 3, 1807 Democratic-Republican
7 John Montgomery March 4, 1807 April 29, 1811 Democratic-Republican
8 Stevenson Archer October 26, 1811 March 3, 1817 Democratic-Republican
9 Thomas Culbreth March 4, 1817 March 3, 1821 Democratic-Republican
10 Jeremiah Cosden March 4, 1821 March 19, 1822 Democratic-Republican
11 Philip Reed March 19, 1822 March 3, 1823 Democratic-Republican
12 George Edward Mitchell March 4, 1823 March 3, 1827 Federalist
13 Levin Gale March 4, 1827 March 3, 1829 Federalist
14 George Edward Mitchell December 7, 1829 June 28, 1832 Jacksonian
15 Charles S. Sewall October 1, 1832 March 3, 1833 Jacksonian
16 William Cost Johnson March 4, 1833 March 3, 1835 Anti-Jackson
17 Francis Thomas March 4, 1835 March 3, 1841 Jacksonian, Democratic
18 John Thomson Mason March 4, 1841 March 3, 1843 Democratic
19 Thomas Ara Spence March 4, 1843 March 3, 1845 Whig
20 Edward Henry Carroll Long March 4, 1845 March 3, 1847 Whig
21 John Woodland Crisfield March 4, 1847 March 3, 1849 Whig
22 John Bozman Kerr March 4, 1849 March 3, 1851 Whig
23 Joseph Stewart Cottman March 4, 1851 March 3, 1853 Independent Whig
24 Augustus Rhodes Sollers March 4, 1853 March 3, 1855 Whig
25 Thomas Fielder Bowie March 4, 1855 March 3, 1859 Democratic
26 George Wurtz Hughes March 4, 1859 March 3, 1861 Democratic
27 Charles Benedict Calvert March 4, 1861 March 3, 1863 Unionist
This seat was abolished after the census of 1860, but was reinstated after the census of 1870.
28 Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. March 4, 1873 March 3, 1875 Republican
29 William Walsh March 4, 1875 March 3, 1879 Democratic
30 Milton George Urner March 4, 1879 March 3, 1883 Republican
31 Louis Emory McComas March 4, 1883 March 3, 1891 Republican
32 William McMahon McKaig March 4, 1891 March 3, 1895 Democratic
33 George Louis Wellington March 4, 1895 March 3, 1897 Republican
34 John McDonald March 4, 1897 March 3, 1899 Republican
35 George Alexander Pearre March 4, 1899 March 3, 1911 Republican
36 David John Lewis March 4, 1911 March 3, 1917 Democratic
37 Frederick Nicholas Zihlman March 4, 1917 March 3, 1931 Republican
38 David John Lewis March 4, 1931 January 3, 1939 Democratic
39 William Devereux Byron January 3, 1939 February 27, 1941 Democratic
40 Katharine Edgar Byron May 27, 1941 January 3, 1943 Democratic
41 James Glenn Beall January 3, 1943 January 3, 1953 Republican
42 DeWitt Stephen Hyde January 3, 1953 January 3, 1959 Republican
43 John Robert Foley January 3, 1959 January 3, 1961 Democratic
44 Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr. January 3, 1961 January 3, 1969 Republican
45 John Glenn Beall, Jr. January 3, 1969 January 3, 1971 Republican
46 Goodloe Edgar Byron January 3, 1971 October 11, 1978 Democratic
47 Beverly Barton Butcher Byron January 3, 1979 January 3, 1993 Democratic
48 Roscoe Gardner Bartlett January 3, 1993 Present Republican

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Historical cal Parties in Congress, p. 74
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