start of the term but before the House convened in December 1839. |- ! | Richard Fletcher | | Whig | 1836 | Incumbent re-elected, but declined to serve, leading to a special election. | nowrap | |- ! | Stephen C. Phillips | | Whig | 1834 | | Incumbent resigned September 28, 1838 to become Mayor of Salem.New member elected.Whig hold.Successor also elected the same day to finish the current term. | nowrap | |- ! | Caleb Cushing | | Whig | 1834 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | William Parmenter | | Democratic | 1836 | Incumbent re-elected late on the fourth ballot. | nowrap | |- ! | Levi Lincoln Jr. | | Whig | 1834 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | George Grennell Jr. | | Whig | 1834 | | Incumbent retired.New member elected.Whig hold. | nowrap | |- ! | George N. Briggs | | Whig | 1830 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | William Calhoun | | Whig | 1834 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | William S. Hastings | | Whig | 1836 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | Nathaniel B. Borden | | Democratic | 1835 | | Incumbent lost re-election from a different party.New member elected.Democratic hold. | nowrap | |- ! | John Reed Jr. | | Whig | 18121816 1820 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |- ! | John Quincy Adams | | Whig | 1830 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |} Michigan |- ! | Isaac E. Crary | | 1835 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | |} Mississippi A special election was held in Mississippi on July 17–18, 1837. Its winners were Democrats John F. H. Claiborne and Samuel J. Gholson. The first session of the 25th Congress was a special session beginning on September 4, 1837, extending to October 16. In November, Mississippi held the regular election. Seargent Smith Prentiss, a Vicksburg lawyer and Whig, unexpectedly launched a vigorous, partisan campaign. He and fellow Whig Thomas J. Word won in an upset. Claiborne and Gholson then argued that the July result entitled them to serve full terms. With the Whig Party newly organizing, the closely divided House, in which Anti-Masons, Nullifiers, and the Independent tended to align more with Whigs and to oppose Democrats, agreed to