sentences:  The November special election was actually the second special election for the Fourth Congressional District seat that year; Robert B. Gilliam had been elected to fill the seat in a special election in August 1870 but had died shortly thereafter, before taking his seat.Meanwhile, Sion Hart Rogers had been elected to the 42nd Congress from the Fourth District, also in August.Manning served only the few remaining months of the 41st Congress, from December 7, 1870, to March 3, 1871.