Historedia
Person

John Langdon

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1789

Every event in Historedia whose sources name John Langdon, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. First Quorum of the US Senate and Electoral Count

    1789

    Role: Senator from New Hampshire; first President pro tempore of the Senate, presiding over the electoral count

    1. April 1789 · Federal Hall, site of the electoral count (scope-derived; not named in supplied passages)Joint session counts first electoral votes

      Langdon, as president pro tempore, counted the electoral college votes in the first presidential election, dated by the passages to April 1789.

    2. April 6, 1789 · Federal Hall, meeting place of the first US Congress (scope-derived; not named in supplied passages)Senate attains first quorum and elects Langdon

      On April 6, 1789, the Senate achieved its first quorum and chose John Langdon of New Hampshire as its first president pro tempore.

Sources

  1. John Langdon (politician) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-12