1848 Contested Election

BARTLETT, STANLEY, SCOTT, ETC

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Iowa contested election case. Evidence taken in the Iowa contested election case, and referred to the Committee on Elections. May 15, 1850. Ordered to be printed.
Date: 1850-05-15;
Publication: Serial Set Vol. No. 581, Session Vol. No.1;
Report: H.Misc.Doc. 47;
Oath of the Judges of Election. We do solemnly swear that we will perform the duties of the judges of election, according to law and to the best of our ability. We will studiously endeavor the prevent fraud, deceit, or abuse in conducting the same. Subscribed and sworn to this 7th day of August A.D. 1848. JONATHAN SCOTT, ISAAC BARTLETT, D. STANLEY, Judges of the Election.

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At an election held at Isaac Bartlett's, Lynn Cobbin's, on the west side of the Chariton river, in the count y of Appanoose, and State of Iowa, on the first Monday (the 7th day) of August, 1848, the following named persons received the number of votes annexed to their respective names for the following described offices, to wit:
For Congress, first district - Wm. Thompson had 16 votes.
For secretary of state - J.H. Bonney had 16 votes.
For auditor - Joseph T. Fales had 16 votes.
For treasurer - Morgan Reno had 16 votes
For State Senate - John J. Selman had 16 votes.
For representative - Reuben Riggs had 16 votes
For commissioners' clerk - James J. Jackson had 16 votes
For county commissioner - George W. Perkins had 16 votes
For prosecuting attorney - Henry Allen had 15 votes, Thomas H. Monson had 1 vote.

Poll book of Chariton Township. Names of persons who voted at an election held at Isaac Bartlet's, Lynn Cobbin's, on the west side of the Chariton river, in Appanoose county and State of Iowa, on the first Monday (the 7th day) of August, A.D. 1848, to wit:

1. William Bartlet
2. Daniel Jackson
3. John Nowles
4. Andrew Jackson
5. Nathan Bartlett
6. Joseph Bartlett
7. Richard Hordesty (Note, this name is spelled with the "o")
8. James Whitson
9. Jonathan Scott
10. John Jackson
11. Dempsey Stanley
12. Arthur Litchfield
13. Isaac Bartlet
14. Porden M. Dodge
15. Calvin Tondy
16. Joseph Dykes

Names of persons who voted at an election held at the house of Jacob Coffman, in Wells township, in the county of Appanoose, Monday, (the 7th day) of August, A.D. 1848, to wit:

1. J. C. Haney
2. James Snider
3. John Himes
4. Hiram W. Clark
5. Jacob Coffman
6. Stephen George
7. Michael Pilkey
8. Andrew J. Peck
9. Moses Walker
10. Jonathan Monney
11. John Wood
12. Joseph W. Cooksey
13. J. M. S. Scurlael
14. Andrew McWillard