Editing Indiana Territory (section)

===Congressional delegation===
{{Main|Indiana Territory's At-large congressional district}}

Territorial delegates to the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] could attend congressional sessions with the right to debate, submit legislation, and serve on committees, but they were not permitted to vote on legislation.<ref>Funk, p. 201</ref> When the Indiana Territory entered its second phase of governance, the territory's legislative assembly elected [[Benjamin Parke]] as its delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. [[Jesse B. Thomas]] was appointed to the post following Parke's resignation in 1808.<ref name=Thomas>{{cite web| title =Thomas, Jess Burgess, (1777 - 1853) | work = Biographical Directory of Congress | publisher =United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000171 |access-date=July 20, 2018}}</ref> Congress approved a law in 1809 that allowed the territory's inhabitants to choose a delegate to Congress in a territory-wide election.<ref>Buley, v. I, p. 61.</ref> [[Jonathan Jennings]] defeated Thomas Randolph, the territory's attorney general and Harrison's chosen candidate, in a highly contested race to become the territory's first popularly-elected representative to the U.S. Congress. Jennings was reelected to the post in 1811, 1812, and 1814, prior to his election as the first governor of Indiana in 1816.<ref>{{cite book|author=Randy K. Mills |title=Jonathan Jennings: Indiana's First Governor |publisher=[[Indiana Historical Society]] Press |location=Indianapolis|year= 2005|pages=97–98; 104–5; and 156 |isbn=978-0-87195-182-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=William Wesley Woollen |title=Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana|publisher=Ayer Publishing |year=1975 |page=32 |isbn=0-405-06896-4}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Delegate
! Years
! Party
|-
| [[Benjamin Parke]]
| December 12, 1805 – March 1, 1808
| none
|- {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}}
| [[Jesse B. Thomas|Jesse Burgess Thomas]]
| October 22, 1808 – March 3, 1809
| [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]]
|-
| [[Jonathan Jennings]]
| November 27, 1809 – December 11, 1816
| none
|}