In 1800, each state established its own voting ... In 1845, Congress passed a bill establishing that the presidential elections would take place on the “Tuesday next after the first Monday ...
A contingent election determined the winner of the presidential election on two occasions in U.S. history - 1800 and 1824. In ...
Although the tactics that presidential hopefuls used in the ... the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond ...