7th United States Congress
House of Representatives
replacements: 8 Democratic-Republicans: no net change Federalists: no net change deaths: 1 resignations: 9 forfeiture: 1 vacancy: 1 Total seats with changes: 11

7th United States Congress

Section Title: House of Representatives
Table Section Text: replacements: 8 Democratic-Republicans: no net change Federalists: no net change deaths: 1 resignations: 9 forfeiture: 1 vacancy: 1 Total seats with changes: 11

District	Vacator	Reason for change	Successor	Date of successor's formal installation

Connecticut at-large	Vacant	Elizur Goodrich (F) resigned before the beginning of this Congress.	Calvin Goddard (F)	May 14, 1801

Massachusetts 14th	Vacant	Representative-elect George Thatcher declined to serve. Successor elected June 22, 1801.	Richard Cutts (DR)	December 7, 1801

Massachusetts 4th	Levi Lincoln (DR)	Resigned March 5, 1801, after being appointed US Attorney General.	Seth Hastings (F)	January 11, 1802

New York 6th	John Bird (F)	Resigned July 25, 1801.	John Peter Van Ness (DR)	December 7, 1801

New York 5th	Thomas Tillotson (DR)	Resigned August 10, 1801, upon appointment as NY Secretary of State.	Theodorus Bailey (DR)	December 7, 1801

Massachusetts 12th	Silas Lee (F)	Resigned August 20, 1801.	Samuel Thatcher (F)	December 6, 1802

South Carolina 4th	Thomas Sumter (DR)	Resigned December 15, 1801, after being elected to the US Senate.	Richard Winn (DR)	January 24, 1803

Georgia at-large	Benjamin Taliaferro (DR)	Resigned sometime in 1802.	David Meriwether (DR)	December 6, 1802

New Hampshire at-large	Joseph Peirce (F)	Resigned sometime in 1802.	Samuel Hunt (F)	December 6, 1802

Maryland 2nd	Richard Sprigg, Jr. (DR)	Resigned February 11, 1802.	Walter Bowie (DR)	March 24, 1802

Mississippi Territory at-large	Narsworthy Hunter	Died March 11, 1802.	Thomas M. Green, Jr.	December 6, 1802

Georgia at-large	John Milledge (DR)	Resigned May 1802 after being elected Governor.	Peter Early (DR)	January 10, 1803

North Carolina 8th	Charles Johnson (DR)	Died July 23, 1802.	Thomas Wynns (DR)	December 7, 1802

Ohio at-large	New seat	Ohio was admitted to the Union on November 29, 1802.	Vacant	Not filled until next Congress

New York 6th	John Peter Van Ness (DR)	Seat declared forfeited January 17, 1803.	Vacant

Sentence(s)

Richard Sprigg, Jr. (DR) was a member until February 11, 1802 and Walter Bowie (DR) succeeded him on March 24, 1802.

final_sentence: Richard Sprigg, Jr. (DR) was a member until February 11, 1802 and Walter Bowie (DR) succeeded him on March 24, 1802.