He is well-known principally because he was a so-called faithless elector in the 1796 election. PARKS: That's Claire Finkelstein. She's a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Brief History of Campaign Mudslinging, From 1796 to Today. Questioning religion, "yo mama" zingers, hooker accusations, and more ways presidential elections have been ugly since the 18th century.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

The recipe for Hartford election cake appeared in Amelia Simmons’s “American Cookery,” published in 1796 — the first known cookbook written by an American in the United States — though ...

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, ...

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 ...