New York's at-large congressional seat
On three occasions in New York history, some members of the United States House of Representatives were elected statewide at-large. This was due to an increase of the number of representatives after the previous federal census, and the failure of the State Legislature to re-apportion the congressional districts in time for the next election.
Image: Lyman Tremain Brady Handy
Image: Henry Warner Slocum
Image: John Fitzgibbons (New York Congressman)
Image: Elmer E. Studley (New York Congressman)
Henry Warner Slocum Sr., was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville.
Portrait of General Henry W. Slocum by Mathew Brady, c. 1861
An equestrian statue of Slocum by Frederick William MacMonnies in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Leister house in Gettysburg
Henry Warner Slocum
