THIRD ELECTION FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS. Pro-slavery election for delegate to congress, October 6, 1856. The free-state men did not vote. Of the 4,276 votes cast for Whitfield, as delegate, 1,458 were cast at Leavenworth. VOTES FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS, OCTOBER 6, 1856. COUNTIES. FOURTH ELECTION FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS. NOTE.- Oxford, in Johnson county, near Missouri, polled 1,628 pro-slavery votes, nearly all illegal. McGee county polled 1,200 pro-slavery votes, nearly all illegal. Kickapoo did the same. Governor Walker set the election returns aside for informality, not for fraud. THE WYANDOTTE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The election for choosing delegates to the Wyandotte constitutional convention was held June 7, 1859. The names of the successful candidates appear below in the first column. SIXTH DISTRICT-MARSHALL AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES-ONE DELE TWENTIETH DISTRICT-COFFEY AND WOODSON COUNTIES-TWO DELE TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT-MADISON, HUNTER, BUTLER, GREENWOOD, GODFREY AND WILSON COUNTIES-ONE DELEGATE. 49 George H. Lillie (returns from Madison county only.).......... J. C. Burnett.. W. R. Griffith.... 281 Ezra Gilbert..... 294 Hugh Glenn 229 220 TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT ALLEN COUNTY-ONE DELEGATE. NOTE. The democrats elected 17 delegates-10 from Leavenworth, 4 from Doniphan, and 1 each from Jefferson, Jackson and Johnson counties. The remaining 35 delegates were free-state men or republicans. VOTE ON THE WYANDOTTE CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 4, 1859. C. B. McClelland.. Jefferson. A. D. McCune Leavenworth... Leavenworth... Ohio L. R. Palmer........ Pottawatomie.. Louisville. P. S. Parks.. R. J. Porter.. H. D. Preston... J. Ritchie.. E. G. Ross.... Leavenworth... Kickapoo.... Shawnee Oskaloosa.. Ohio 30 Merchant. Council Grove.. Scotland 44 Farmer. Pennsylvania... 25 Lawyer. Holton. Ohio 38 Manufact'r. Leavenworth... Leavenworth... New York. 28 Lawyer. Merchant. Burlingame. Topeka.... Ohio G. F. Warren...... Serg't-at-arms.. Douglas... Baldwin City, Maine.... Osage...... Superior Atchison. Atchison.... New York.. 35 21 Farmer. |