page_title: 1802 and 1803 United States Senate elections
section_title: New York (Special)
hierarchical_section_title: 1802 and 1803 United States Senate elections / New York / New York (Special)
context_page_description: The United States Senate elections of 1802 and 1803 were elections for the United States Senate which had the Democratic-Republican Party assume an overwhelming control thereof.
  As these election were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
context_section_description: Democratic-Republican John Armstrong Jr., who had held the class 3 seat since 1801, resigned February 5, 1802 and Democratic-Republican DeWitt Clinton was elected February 23, 1802 to finish the term.  Clinton, however, resigned November 4, 1803 and Armstrong was appointed December 8, 1803 to his old seat.
caption: Senator DeWitt Clinton
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