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This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives from Delaware. Elections are by a popular vote originally elected on the first Tuesday of October, but after 1831 on the first Tuesday after November 1. Terms began on the subsequent March 4 until 1935, from when they began on January 3.
Delaware became a U.S. state in 1787, which allowed it to send congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Voters in each state elect two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.
Franklin Brockson (1865–1942) – State Representative and U.S. Representative from Delaware; James M. Broom (1776–1850) – lawyer and U.S. Representative from Delaware; Hugh T. Broomall (born 1948) – Major General, Delaware Air National Guard; Clifford Brown (1930–1956) – jazz trumpeter, born in Wilmington
The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware.It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal number of constituencies, each of whom is elected to a two-year term.
The Delaware General Assembly was one of the thirteen legislatures that participated in the American War of Independence.Created by the Delaware Constitution of 1776, its membership and responsibilities have been modified by the Delaware Constitution of 1792, the Delaware Constitution of 1831, the Delaware Constitution of 1897, and Supreme Court of the United States decision in Reynolds v.
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Delaware has always had only one member of the United States House of Representatives, except for a single decade from 1813 to 1823, when the state had two at-large members. The two seats were filled by a statewide ballot, with the two candidates receiving the highest votes being elected.
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