New Jersey's at-large congressional district
Beginning from its inception into statehood, New Jersey elected its representatives At-large instead of from individual districts. This continued for most years until 1843, with the exception of the years 1799-1801, and 1813-1815 when they were elected in districts. After 1843, New Jersey returned to district representation. 4 at-large representatives were elected in 1789 until 1793 when a 5th representative was added. 6 seats were allocated beginning in 1803, continuing until At-large representation ceased in 1843.
List of representatives
| Cong ress |
Years | Seat A | Seat B | Seat C | Seat D | Seat E | Seat F | |||||||||||||||||
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| Rep. | Party | Electoral history | Rep. | Party | Electoral history | Rep. | Party | Electoral history | Rep. | Party | Electoral history | Rep. | Party | Electoral history | Rep. | Party | Electoral history | |||||||
| 1 | March 4, 1789 – March 4, 1791 |
 Elias Boudinot |
Pro- Admin. |
First elected in 1789. Re-elected in 1790. Re-elected in 1792. Retired |
%2C_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_(1741_-_1827).jpg) Lambert Cadwalader |
Pro- Admin. |
Elected in 1789. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 James Schureman |
Pro- Admin. |
Elected in 1789. Retired when elected U.S. Senator |
Thomas Sinnickson | Pro- Admin. |
Elected in 1789. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Seat created in 1793 | Seat created in 1803 | |||||||||
| 2 | March 4, 1791 – March 4, 1793 |
 Abraham Clark |
Pro- Admin. |
Died |  Jonathan Dayton |
Pro- Admin. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Aaron Kitchell | Pro- Admin. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | March 4, 1793 – September 15, 1794 |
Lambert Cadwalader |
Pro- Admin. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | John Beatty | Pro- Admin. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| September 15, 1794 – January 29, 1795 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| January 29, 1795 – March 4, 1795 |
Aaron Kitchell | Pro- Admin. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | March 4, 1795 – March 4, 1797 |
Thomas Henderson | Fed. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Fed. | Fed. | Isaac Smith | Fed. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Mark Thomson | Fed. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||
| 5 | March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1799 |
James Schureman |
Fed. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James H. Imlay | Fed. | Redistricted to the 4th district | Thomas Sinnickson | Fed. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | March 4, 1799– March 4, 1801 |
District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1803 |
 John Condit |
Dem.- Rep. |
Redistricted from the 1st district | Ebenezer Elmer | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | William Helms | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James Mott | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Henry Southard | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||
| 8 | March 4, 1803 – March 4, 1805 |
Adam Boyd | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James Sloan | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | March 4, 1805 – March 4, 1807 |
Ezra Darby | Dem.- Rep. |
Died |  John Lambert |
Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | March 4, 1807 – January 27, 1808 |
Thomas Newbold | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| January 27, 1808 – March 8, 1808 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 8, 1808 – March 4, 1809 |
Adam Boyd | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | March 4, 1809 – September 12, 1810 |
James Cox | Dem.- Rep. |
Died | Jacob Hufty | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| September 12, 1810 – October 31, 1810 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 31, 1810 – March 4, 1811 |
John A. Scudder | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | March 4, 1811 – March 4, 1813 |
Lewis Condict | Dem.- Rep. |
Redistricted to the 1st district | George C. Maxwell | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James Morgan | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | March 4, 1813– March 4, 1815 |
District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | District representation only | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | March 4, 1815 – March 4, 1817 |
Ezra Baker | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |  Ephraim Bateman |
Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Lewis Condict | Dem.- Rep. |
Redistricted from the 1st district | Benjamin Bennet | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Henry Southard | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Thomas Ward | Dem.- Rep. |
Redistricted from the 1st district | |||||
| 15 | March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1819 |
 Joseph Bloomfield |
Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Charles Kinsey | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | John Linn | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | March 4, 1819 – November 4, 1819 |
John Condit |
Dem.- Rep. |
Resigned | Bernard Smith | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| November 4, 1819 – February 2, 1820 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 2, 1820 – January 5, 1821 |
Charles Kinsey | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| January 5, 1821 – March 4, 1821 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | March 4, 1821 – March 4, 1823 |
George Cassedy | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Lewis Condict | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | George Holcombe | Jack. Rep. |
Died | James Matlack | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Samuel Swan | Dem.- Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||
| 18 | March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1825 |
Jack. Rep. |
Daniel Garrison | Jack. Rep. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Jack. Rep. |
Jack. | Adams-Clay Republican |
Jack. Rep. | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1827 |
Jack. | Jack. | Anti- Jack. |
Ebenezer Tucker | Anti- Jack. |
Retired | Anti- Jack. | ||||||||||||||||
| 20 | March 4, 1827 – January 14, 1828 |
Isaac Pierson | Adams | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Hedge Thompson | Adams | Died | Adams | Adams | Adams | ||||||||||||||
| January 14, 1828 – July 23, 1828 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 23, 1828 – December 1, 1828 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 1, 1828 – March 4, 1829 |
Thomas Sinnickson | Adams | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James F. Randolph | Adams | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1831 |
Anti- Jack. |
Richard M. Cooper | Anti- Jack. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Anti- Jack. |
Anti- Jack. |
Thomas H. Hughes | Anti- Jack. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Anti- Jack. | |||||||||||||
| 22 | March 4, 1831 – March 4, 1833 |
Silas Condit | Anti- Jack. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Isaac Southard | Anti- Jack. |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||
| 23 | March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1835 |
Philemon Dickerson | Jack. | First elected in 1832. Re-elected in 1834. Resigned to become Governor of New Jersey |
 Samuel Fowler |
Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Thomas Lee | Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | James Parker | Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Ferdinand S. Schenck | Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | William N. Shinn | Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||
| 24 | March 4, 1835 – November 3, 1836 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 3, 1836 – December 5, 1836 |
Vacant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 5, 1836 – March 4, 1837 |
William Chetwood | Jack. | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 25 | March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1839 |
John B. Aycrigg | Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected, but not permitted to qualify[1] |
William Halstead | Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected, but the House declined to seat him[1] |
John P.B. Maxwell | Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected, but the House declined to seat him[1] |
Joseph F. Randolph | Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected in 1838. Re-elected in 1840 Retired |
 Charles C. Stratton |
Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected, but the House declined to seat him[1] |
Thomas J. Yorke | Whig | Elected in 1836. Re-elected, but the House declined to seat him[1] | |||||
| 26 | March 4, 1839 – March 4, 1841 |
Philemon Dickerson | Dem. | Elected in 1838. Lost re-election |
William R. Cooper | Dem. | Elected in 1838. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Joseph Kille | Dem. | Elected in 1838. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Daniel B. Ryall | Dem. | Elected in 1838. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Peter D. Vroom |
Dem. | Elected in 1838. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||
| 27 | March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1843 |
John B. Aycrigg | Whig | Elected in 1840. Retired |
William Halstead | Whig | Elected in 1840. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John P.B. Maxwell | Whig | Elected in 1840. [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Charles C. Stratton |
Whig | Elected in 1840. Retired |
Thomas J. Yorke | Whig | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||||||||
References
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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