John Lewis Childs

★ U.S. Representative

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

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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 November 9, 2026.