The art, indeed, may be said to have been introduced in 1796 to prevent his election to the Presidency; but it was in 1800 that it was clearly developed into a distinct species of falsehood.

The presidential election of 1800 was a crisis of the first order ... seeing him as the intended winner. Federalist members of Congress considered overturning the election; thousands of people ...

In the 1800 election, a rematch of 1796 ... Johnson, the running mate of election winner Martin Van Buren, and withheld their votes for him in the Electoral College. The Senate later elevated ...