Holdings of ELECTION RETURNS DOCKET Federal & County Wide
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| 1. “Election Docket 1839” on spine.
Arrangement: 1839-1840: Municipal offices and General Elections for federal
and county wide offices. 1841-1920: Spring Justice of Peace Elections, Special
Elections, and for General Elections federal and county wide offices.
Index: 1839-1840 by chronological entry.
General Elections for federal and county wide offices include: Auditor General,
Canal Commissioner (1843-1858), Clerk of Courts & Recorder of Deeds,
Coroner, County Auditor, County Commissioner, County Surveyor, County
Treasurer, Director of the Poor, District Attorney, PA General Assembly
Representatives and Senator, Governor and Lt. Governor, Judge of Court of
Common Pleas, Judge of Superior Court, Judge Supreme Court, Jury
Commissioner, Prothonotary, Register of Wills, Secretary of Internal Affairs,
Sheriff, State Treasurer, U.S. Senator and Congressman, and Presidential and
Vice-Presidential Electors (with party affiliations including Republican Party,
Democratic Party, Socialist Party, Prohibition Party, American Commonwealth
Land Party, Industrialist Party, Labor Party, Workers Communist Party, Royal
Oak Party, Bull Moose Party, Roosevelt Progressive Party, Washington Party,
Single Tax Party, Jeffersonian Party, National Party, Free Silver Party,
Independence Party, and People’s Party).
Referendums include: Main Line (canal) issue (1844), Constitutional
Amendment (1850), Constitutional Amendments 1-4 (1857), Constitutional
Convention (1871), Sheep Law (1878), Prohibition Amendment (1889), Suffrage
Amendment (1889), Carlisle School District Loan (1913), Camp Hill Borough
Indebtedness (1914), East Pennsborough School District Loan, and Indebtedness
(1915, 1916).
Special Elections include: Changes in voting locations: Frankford Twp (1857),
Newton Twp (1858), Dickinson Twp (1861), North Middleton Twp (1864), Penn Twp
(1867), Delegates to Constitutional Convention (1891) Absentee Soldiers’ Votes –
PA Volunteers (1861, 1864), New PA Constitution (1873), Independent District
Elections (starting 1905), Constitutional Amendments 1 & 2 (1920).
Item: 1871 voting irregularities and vote buying. | 1839-1920 | CC - Archives |
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| 2. “Election Docket 1921” on spine. “Returns of General Election…”
General Elections for federal and county wide offices include:
Auditor General, Congressional Representative, Clerk of Courts and Recorder of
Deeds, Coroner, County Auditor, County Commissioner, County Surveyor, County
Treasurer, Director of the Poor, District Attorney, General Assembly Representative,
General Assembly Senator, General Assembly Senator, 31st District, Governor and
Lt. Governor, Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Judge of Superior Court, Judge
Supreme Court, Jury, Commissioner, Presidential and Vice-Presidential Electors
(with party affiliations including Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Prohibition,
American Commonwealth Land, Industrialist, Labor, Workers Communist, Royal
Oak Party) Prothonotary, Register of Wills, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Sheriff,
State Treasurer, and U.S. Senator).
Referendums include: Constitutional Amendments (1922, 1923), Constitutional
Convention (1924), Constitutional Amendments 1-14 (1928), Voting Machines
(1929, 1930), Delegates to Constitutional Convention regarding Amendment 18
(1933), PA Constitution Amendments 1-12 (1933), County Amendment regarding
Sunday baseball and football games and retail beverage licenses boroughs of Camp
Hill, Carlisle, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, and Shirmanstown (1933), liquor
licenses Shippensburg Boro (1934), Sunday movies, retail licenses malt and
brewed beverages, and sale liquor (1935), Liquor license Newburg (1936). | 1921-1936 | CC - Archives |
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| 3. "Municipal and General Election Docket No. 1 Cumberland County" on spine. | 1937-1975 | CC - Archives |
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