Electoral College: In 1796, ... PARKS: Still, every election, because of the system, up until this date - the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December ...

We love to gripe about today’s negative campaigns, but presidential elections have always been dirty, dating back to the 18th century. It all began in 1796, when Alexander Hamilton, writing ...

On this day in 1796, during the nation's first contested presidential election, the Gazette of the United States accused Thomas Jefferson of carrying on an affair with Sarah 'Sally' Hemings, one ...

Many presidential campaign cycles have been divisive, even dating back to 1796 and the race between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Trump versus Harris election stands out for a different reason.

The first case of a faithless elector was in 1796, when Samuel Miles of Pennsylvania, ... none of which changed the election's outcome—a landslide win by Ulysses S. Grant.

Thomas Jefferson lost the 1796 election by three electoral votes partly due to his home state of Virginia choosing electors by district. Writing to Virginia Gov. James Monroe in 1800, ...

In 1796, after eight years of Washington, ... Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, ...

Election cakes were so popular in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1800s that they were dubbed 'Hartford Election Cakes.' The first known published recipe appears in Amelia Simmons’ 1796 ...

On this day in 1796, during the nation’s first contested presidential election, the Gazette of the United States published an article accusing Thomas Jefferson, a former secretary of state, of ...