Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district | |
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Obsolete district | |
Created | 1789 1793 1873 1883 1893 1913 1943 |
Eliminated | 1791 1795 1875 1889 1903 1923 1945 |
Years active | 1789–1791 1793–1795 1873–1875 1883–1889 1893–1903 1913–1923 1943–1945 |
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania elected its United States representatives at-large on a general ticket for the first and third United States Congresses. General ticket representation was prohibited by the 1842 Apportionment Bill and subsequent legislation, most recently in 1967 (Pub. L. 90–196, 2 U.S.C. § 2c).
Some representatives, including Galusha A. Grow, served at-large after 1842 (in Grow's case, it was from 1894 to 1903). This was allowed because Pennsylvania had received an increase in the number of its representatives yet its legislature didn't pass an apportionment bill during those years.