John Lewis Childs

★ U.S. Representative

Home state: New York
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1818–1898

Career timeline

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1-7

RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Childs57,731

Opponents107,777

Elections run

Between 1818 and 1898, John Lewis Childs ran in 8 U.S. House elections, winning 1 and losing 7. Childs's biggest single-election total was 18,749 votes, in the 1892 U.S. House election in New York's District 1. Childs's closest win came in the 1854 U.S. House election in New York's District 7, decided by 1,463 votes.

Browse every U.S. House race in New York's District 29, every U.S. House race in New York's District 1, or every U.S. House race in New York's District 7.

How many votes has John Lewis Childs received?

John Lewis Childs has received 57,731 popular votes across 8 U.S. elections, with a career record of 1–7.

Election history

John Lewis Childs’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1898	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	18,31143.19%	Charles Gillet N H Decker
1892	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	18,74945.28%	James Covert (head-to-head) H Fletcher Fordham
1890	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	14,08541.48%	James Covert (head-to-head) Johnson (head-to-head)
1854	U.S. HouseNew York	Won	6,55756.28%	John F Kennedy
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	30.12%	Henry Storrs Allen Frazer Bacon (head-to-head) Huntington William S Hamilton Sill Joel Bristol Evans (head-to-head) Gamaliel H Barstow (head-to-head) Williams John G Davis Hoyt Samuel Dyer David Ostrom Ernest H Woodruff George S Schuyler Samuel F Snowden J L N Hunt Charles R Seymour John Doe Andrew Elmer Elmer S White Johnson (head-to-head) Luther Guiteau John C Pride
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	5	George Hall James O Wattles Gamaliel H Barstow (head-to-head) Fernando Wood (head-to-head) Evans (head-to-head) Thomas F Wilkinson Willis Gaylord Jonathan Forman Caleb Keep Victory Birdseye Charles S Judd Zachariah Kinne Edward J Boyce Jonathan Cooley James Geddes Comfort Tyler Payne (head-to-head) Samuel Marsh French Edward Edwards
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	150.13%	Jonathan Richmond Caleb Baker Silas Bowker Wm B Rochester Evans (head-to-head) Hubbard W Rathbun George Guest Bacon (head-to-head) Lemon Thompson Warner Miller (head-to-head) James L Wells Anson L Gardner Gerald Root Low Philip Kings Samuel Crittendon Raymond K Bull Alva Carpenter (head-to-head) Ira S Jarvis Fernando Wood (head-to-head) Robert J McCall Oliver Petteys John G Dow Reuben P Skinner Moses Remington R E Sutton Jeremiah Cassady Frank B Arnold Oliver Comstock Peter Field Gamaliel H Barstow (head-to-head) Ephraim Wethey Horace Jerome Jacob H Durkee Charles C Dill J Mulford Robinson (head-to-head) Richard Townley David Woodcock Rogers Abraham Gridley Thomas Maxwell Julian Park Franklin Leonard Jr. Payne (head-to-head) George H Stevenson Elijah Hiaman Edward F Cassidy
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	6	Nathaniel Allen Albert Tracy Benjamin Ellicott Richmond Edward C Baker Warren P Bender House Evans (head-to-head) Enos Pomeroy Lot Row Warner Miller (head-to-head) David A Howell Alphonzo A Hopkins R S Stevens Philo Orton John Spencer Gamaliel H Barstow (head-to-head) James O Cleveland Hezekiah L Hosmer Enoch Nobles Albert H Picketts Andrew Backus A H Pickets Gideon Granger Wadsworth Lithgow Osborne Oliver Phelps Robert A Osborn Payne (head-to-head) Moses Maynard Abraham Matteson Augustine J Marvin Harvey Montgomery Chauncey L Shelden William H Douglass Hill Alva Carpenter (head-to-head) William D Stewart Robinson (head-to-head) J Q Leak Porter Wm Filbe Amasa J Parker Ebenezer F Norton Elijah Holt Ezra Ludden Joel Dorman Thomas Hustler Smith Jonathan Child Louis W Elliott Wagener Jacob Steeples Myr Hody Israel Chapin Jonah Hallet Jenkins George McGunigher Daniel Cruger Thomas H Jackson Dunkirk Garnsey Amos J Cummings Josiah Churchill Wilhemus Myndrees Benjamin F Lewis William Carwell

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Compiled by PolitiFinder. Election results from official certified sources and the MIT Election Lab. See Data & sources and methodology. Data last verified July 28, 2026.