Broad Seal War

Broad Seal War

The Broad Seal War was a controversy over the results of a Congressional election in the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1838.

Following the closely contested election of 1838, two groups sought admission to the United States Congress from New Jersey. Both held commissions bearing the great (broad) seal of the state; only the Whig commissions, however, were legally executed and signed by the state governor, William Pennington. Charging their opponents with election fraud and facing loss of control of the House, the Democratic Party majority refused to seat all but one Whig. When it was proved that the county clerks in Cumberland and Middlesex counties had suppressed the returns in certain townships that would have given the Democrats a majority, the House, on February 28, 1840, seated the five Democratic claimants.

References

*cite book
last = Adams
first = James Truslow
title = Dictionary of American History
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons
date = 1940
location = New York

*cite web
last = Lalor
first = John (editor)
title = Broad Seal War
work = Cyclopaedia of Political Science
publisher = Maynard, Merrill, and Co
date = 1899
url = http://www.econlib.org/library/ypdbooks/lalor/llCy157.html
accessdate = 2006-11-04


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