At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1808. The Following Gentlemen are chosen by the Freemen of this State to stand in Nomination for Election in October next, as Representatives in the eleventh Congress of the United-States, viz

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1808. Letterpress broadside measuring 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Some slight toning, near fine overall. Fine. A broadside announcing the candidates for the United States House of Representatives, a list which includes Noah Webster. Webster received 212 votes in the preliminary election in May, enough to get him a spot on the ballot, but lost in the general election, in a generally difficult time for Federalist politicians. Webster experienced a religious conversion during this period, after being a not particularly devout Congregationalist earlier in his life, and embraced the church completely, perhaps due to the death of his infant son in 1806. Webster would run again for U.S. Representative in 1810, 1812 and 1816, losing each time, and eventually abandoned politics, his last office held being in the Connecticut House of Representatives, ending in 1807, shortly before his first campaign for national office. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC or other ephemera relating to Webster’s political career in Connecticut in the trade. The collected acts from this session were published in octavo format but we find no other record of this broadside printing.