6th United States Congress
House of Representatives
There were 6 resignations and 3 deaths. The Federalists had a 4-seat net loss and the Democratic-Republicans had a 3-seat net gain.

6th United States Congress

Section Title: House of Representatives
Table Section Text: There were 6 resignations and 3 deaths. The Federalists had a 4-seat net loss and the Democratic-Republicans had a 3-seat net gain.

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

New York 1st	Jonathan Havens (DR)	Died October 25, 1799	John Smith (DR)	February 27, 1800

Northwest Territory At-large	William Henry Harrison	Resigned May 14, 1800, to become Territorial Governor of Indiana	William McMillan	November 24, 1800

Connecticut At-large	Jonathan Brace (F)	Resigned sometime in 1800	John Cotton Smith (F)	November 17, 1800

Massachusetts 10th	Samuel Sewall (F)	Resigned January 10, 1800, to become a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	Nathan Read (F)	November 25, 1800

Massachusetts 4th	Dwight Foster (F)	Resigned June 6, 1800, having been elected U.S. Senator	Levi Lincoln (DR)	December 15, 1800

Virginia 13th	John Marshall (F)	Resigned June 7, 1800, to become Secretary of State	Littleton W. Tazewell (DR)	November 26, 1800

New Hampshire At-large	William Gordon (F)	Resigned June 12, 1800, to become New Hampshire Attorney General	Samuel Tenney (F)	December 8, 1800

Massachusetts 3rd	Samuel Lyman (F)	Resigned November 6, 1800	Ebenezer Mattoon (F)	February 2, 1801

Pennsylvania 8th	Thomas Hartley (F)	Died December 21, 1800	John Stewart (DR)	February 3, 1801

Georgia At-large	James Jones (F)	Died January 11, 1801	Vacant until next Congress

Sentence(s)

Dwight Foster (F) was the House of Representatives until June 6, 1800 and was taken over by Levi Lincoln (DR), from December 15, 1800.

final_sentence: Dwight Foster (F) was the House of Representatives until June 6, 1800 and was taken over by Levi Lincoln (DR), from December 15, 1800.