John Lewis Childs — election history & vote totals · PolitiFinder

John Lewis Childs

★ U.S. Representative

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

Career timeline

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1892House 1898House

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Childs57,731

Opponents107,777

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Elections run

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 H Fletcher Fordham
1890	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	14,08541.48%	James Covert Johnson
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 Huntington William S Hamilton Sill Joel Bristol Evans Gamaliel H Barstow 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 Luther Guiteau John C Pride
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	5	George Hall James O Wattles Gamaliel H Barstow Fernando Wood Evans 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 Samuel Marsh French Edward Edwards
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	150.13%	Jonathan Richmond Caleb Baker Silas Bowker Wm B Rochester Evans Hubbard W Rathbun George Guest Bacon Lemon Thompson Warner Miller James L Wells Anson L Gardner Gerald Root Low Philip Kings Samuel Crittendon Raymond K Bull Alva Carpenter Ira S Jarvis Fernando Wood 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 Ephraim Wethey Horace Jerome Jacob H Durkee Charles C Dill J Mulford Robinson Richard Townley David Woodcock Rogers Abraham Gridley Thomas Maxwell Julian Park Franklin Leonard Jr. Payne 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 Enos Pomeroy Lot Row Warner Miller David A Howell Alphonzo A Hopkins R S Stevens Philo Orton John Spencer Gamaliel H Barstow 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 Moses Maynard Abraham Matteson Augustine J Marvin Harvey Montgomery Chauncey L Shelden William H Douglass Hill Alva Carpenter William D Stewart Robinson 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