On 29 Nov., the New Hampshire House of Representatives elected Nicholas Gilman, a Republican, to succeed Simeon Olcott in the U.S. Senate. Gilman defeated rival candidate Timothy Farrar by a vote of 85 to 70 (Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at Their Session, Begun and Holden at Concord, on the Third Wednesday of November, Anno Domini, 1804 [Portsmouth, 1805], 29; Portsmouth Oracle, 8 Dec.; Granger to TJ, 6 Sep.).

Pinkney & King: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina and Rufus King of New York, the Federalist candidates for president and vice president in the election of 1804. Public announcements of the ticket first appeared in newspapers in February, although it was unclear at first which candidate was designated for which office. Neither candidate took an active role in the ensuing campaign and the ticket secured only 14 electoral votes in the election (Richmond Virginia Gazette, and General Advertiser, 15 Feb.; Boston Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist, 29 Feb.; Aurora, 22 Feb., 7 Apr.; Alexandria Daily Advertiser, 7 Mch.; Marvin R. Zahniser, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father [Chapel Hill, 1967], 244-5; Robert Ernst, Rufus King: American Federalist [Chapel Hill, 1968], 286-7; JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820-21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:453).