Michigan's 2nd congressional district

United States House of Representatives, Michigan District 2 is a United States Congressional district in Western Michigan. It consists of the counties of Benzie, Manistee, Wexford, Mason, Lake, Oceana, Newaygo, Muskegon, Ottawa, and the northern portion of Allegan and the northeast portion of Kent.

Major cities

Representative	Party	Years	Congress
Lucius Lyon	Democrat	1843-1845	28th
John Smith Chipman	Democrat	1845-1847	29th
Edward Bradley^[1]	Democrat	1847	30th
Charles E. Stuart^[1]	Democrat	1847-1849	30th
William Sprague	Whig ^[2]	1849-1851	31st
Charles E. Stuart	Democrat	1851-1853	32nd
David A. Noble	Democrat	1853-1855	33rd
Henry Waldron	Republican	1855-1861	34th-36th
Fernando C. Beaman	Republican	1861-1863	37th
Charles Upson	Republican	1863-1869	38th-40th
William L. Stoughton	Republican	1869-1873	41st-42nd
Henry Waldron	Republican	1873-1877	43rd-44th
Edwin Willits	Republican	1877-1883	45th-47th
Nathaniel B. Eldredge	Democrat ^[3]	1883-1887	48th-49th
Edward P. Allen	Republican	1887-1891	40th-51st
James S. Gorman	Democrat	1891-1895	52nd-53rd
George Spalding	Republican	1895-1899	54th-55th
Henry C. Smith	Republican	1899-1903	56th-57th
Charles E. Townsend	Republican	1903-1911	58th-61st
William Wedemeyer	Republican	1911-1913	62nd
Samuel Beakes	Democrat	1913-1917	63rd-64th
Mark R. Bacon^[4]	Republican	1917	65th
Samuel Beakes	Democrat	1917-1919	65th
Earl C. Michener	Republican	1919-1933	66th-72nd
John C. Lehr	Democrat	1933-1935	73rd
Earl C. Michener	Republican	1935-1951	74th-81st
George Meader	Republican	1951-1965	82nd-88th
[Weston E. Vivian]]	Democrat	1965-1967	89th
Marvin L. Esch	Republican	1967-1977	90th-94th
Carl D. Pursell	Republican	1977-1993	95th-102nd
Peter Hoekstra	Republican	1993-present	103rd-110th

^ ^a ^b Edward Bradley was elected November 3, 1846, but died August 5, 1847 in New York City, while en route to Washington, D.C. to take office; Charles E. Stuart was elected November 2, 1847, to fill the vacancy.
^ William Sprague was elected on a Free Soil Party ticket and was seated with the Whigs in Congress.
^ Nathaniel B. Eldredge was elected on a Democratic and Union ticket in 1884 to the 49th Congress.
^ : In the election of November 7, 1916, official returns showed Mark R. Bacon had won by 49 votes. Although there was no provision in state law at that time for recounting ballots in the election of federal officials, a separate examination of votes in [[Jackson County, Michigan|]] revealed that Samuel W. Beakes was entitled to 87 more votes. However, the board of state canvassers and the Michigan Supreme Court refused to allow a recount. Finally, the U.S. House Committee on Elections decided to conduct a recount, which gave Beakes the victory by 132 votes. The committee unanimously reported resolutions to the full House stating that Bacon had not been elected to the seat and was not entitled to it, and that, in fact, Beakes was the elected representative of the district. The House seated Beakes on [[December 13], 1917.

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