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When No Candidate Won the 1824 Presidential Election, the House of Representatives Was Given the Rare Task of Deciding the Victor
For the first and last time ever, the House turned to the 12th Amendment to settle a stalemate in that year’s presidential election—and ... Instead, the 1824 campaign began the moment Monroe ...
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The ugly election that birthed modern American politics
The election of 1824 ended that era ... with one serving as the designated vice presidential candidate of another. But precisely because the race was so fluid, these offers almost always came ...
What happens if a presidential electoral vote ends in a tie? Here's what to know
The elected President and Vice President will be inaugurated ... holding a majority of electoral votes in the 1824 ...
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What Happens if There’s a Tie in the Presidential Election?
In 1824, four presidential candidates won Electoral ... Just 12 years later, in the 1836 race, another contingent election occurred, but only to elect the vice president. Virginia’s electors ...
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2024: A year in review
At the beginning of 2024, I compared then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s developing comeback to President Andrew Jackson’s ascension to office 200 years earlier. Jackson lost his bid for the ...