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Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 12th Congress were held in the various states at various dates between April 1810 (in New York) and August 1811 (in Tennessee). Louisiana elected its first representative in September 1812. Congress assembled on November 4 1811. The first session witnessed the unprecedented occurrence of a new member Henry Clay being elected Speaker of the House on the very first day that he entered the chamber.
