111th United States Congress
House of Representatives
Five changes are associated with appointments to the Obama Administration, four directly and one indirectly. Two representatives changed parties, one died, and five resigned.

111th United States Congress

Section Title: House of Representatives
Table Section Text: Five changes are associated with appointments to the Obama Administration, four directly and one indirectly. Two representatives changed parties, one died, and five resigned.

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

Illinois 5th	Vacant	Rahm Emanuel (D) resigned near the end of the previous Congress after being named White House Chief of Staff. A special election was held April 7, 2009	Michael Quigley (D)	April 7, 2009

New York 20th	Kirsten Gillibrand (D)	Resigned January 26, 2009, when appointed to the Senate, replacing Hillary Clinton who became Secretary of State. A special election was held March 31, 2009.	Scott Murphy (D)	March 31, 2009

Northern Mariana Islands At-large	Gregorio Sablan (I)	Changed party affiliation February 23, 2009. Previously an Independent who caucused with Democrats in House	Gregorio Sablan (D)	February 23, 2009

California 32nd	Hilda Solis (D)	Resigned February 24, 2009, to become Secretary of Labor. A special election was held July 14, 2009.	Judy Chu (D)	July 14, 2009

California 10th	Ellen Tauscher (D)	Resigned June 26, 2009, to become Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. A special election was held November 3, 2009.	John Garamendi (D)	November 3, 2009

New York 23rd	John M. McHugh (R)	Resigned September 21, 2009, to become Secretary of the Army. A special election was held November 3, 2009.	Bill Owens (D)	November 3, 2009

Alabama 5th	Parker Griffith (D)	Changed party affiliation December 22, 2009.	Parker Griffith (R)	December 22, 2009

Florida 19th	Robert Wexler (D)	Resigned January 3, 2010, to become president of the Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation. A special election was held April 13, 2010.	Ted Deutch (D)	April 13, 2010

Pennsylvania 12th	John Murtha (D)	Died February 8, 2010. A special election was held May 18, 2010.	Mark Critz (D)	May 18, 2010

Hawaii 1st	Neil Abercrombie (D)	Resigned February 28, 2010, to focus on run for Governor of Hawaii. A special election was held May 22, 2010.	Charles Djou (R)	May 22, 2010

New York 29th	Eric Massa (D)	Resigned March 8, 2010, due to a recurrence of his cancer, as well as an ethics investigation. A special election was held contemporaneously with the November 2, 2010 general election.	Tom Reed (R)	November 2, 2010

Georgia 9th	Nathan Deal (R)	Resigned March 21, 2010, to focus on run for Governor of Georgia. A special election runoff was held June 8, 2010.	Tom Graves (R)	June 8, 2010

Indiana 3rd	Mark Souder (R)	Resigned May 21, 2010, after an affair with a staff member was revealed. A special election was held contemporaneously with the November 2, 2010 general election.	Marlin Stutzman (R)	November 2, 2010

Illinois 10th	Mark Kirk (R)	Resigned November 29, 2010, after being elected to the United States Senate in a special election	Vacant until the next Congress

Sentence(s)

In the 111th United States Congress, John Murtha (D) served until February 8, 2010, and was succeeded by Mark Critz (D) on May 18, 2010.

final_sentence: In the 111th United States Congress, John Murtha (D) served until February 8, 2010, and was succeeded by Mark Critz (D) on May 18, 2010.