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	U.S. presidential election, 1844 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The U.S. presidential election of 1844 was the first election to see an incumbent President seek nomination and fail to receive it.
		The Whigs chose Clay, the party's greatest congressional leader, despite his having lost two prior presidential elections: in 1824 to John Quincy Adams as a Democrat-Republican, then in 1832 to Andrew Jackson as a National Republican.
		The incumbent President in 1844 was John Tyler, who had ascended to the office of President upon the death of William Henry Harrison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1844 (1047 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: election @ HighBeam Research
		and were gradually regularized by acts prescribing the frequency of elections (the Triennial Act of 1694, and the Septennial Act of 1716), by successive reform bills widening the franchise in the 19th cent., and by the adoption of the secret ballot in 1872.
		The Constitution specified that elections to the House of Representatives be direct, or popular, and that the election of the Senate and of the president and vice president be indirect, Senators being chosen by the state legislatures and the president and vice president by electors selected by the people (see electoral college).
		In colonial America the election of church and public officials dates almost from the founding of the Plymouth Colony, and the paper ballot was instituted in elections to the Massachusetts governorship in 1634.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:election&refid=ip_almanac_hf (880 words)

	Definition of U.S. presidential election, 1960 - Biocrawler
		The U.S. presidential election of 1960 was held on November 8, 1960.
		Nixon's negative experience in the debates caused him to shun debates in his 1968 and 1972 campaigns, and the next presidential debates would not be held until 1976.
		The main economic issue during the election was the USSR's high economic growth rate in comparison to the United States'.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1960_American_Presidential_election (919 words)

	U.S. presidential election
		In fact, in the likely case that the 2008 election is an open race, it would be the first time since the 1952 election and only the second time since the 1928 election in which neither a Vice President nor a sitting President will be either party's nominee.
		Voter turnout in Presidential elections has been on the decline in recent years, although it bounced back sharply during the 2004 election from the 1996 and 2000 lows.
		United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting on Inauguration Day (January 20th of the year after the election).
	www.1bx.com /en/Us_presidential_election.htm (790 words)

	U.S. presidential election results -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In elections from 1789 to 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which vice president.
		The 2000 presidential election exposed several deficiencies in the conduct of American elections: the possibility that a candidate could win more popular votes than his opponent and still lose the electoral college tally—Bush...
		Election Reform Debate in the U.S. Amid calls for a radical overhaul of the U.S. electoral system, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2001.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344757?tocId=9344757 (1042 words)

	Definition of November 6 - Biocrawler
		1860- U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
		1956- U.S. presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
		1888- U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/November_6 (1295 words)

	Presidential Elections, 1789–2004
		The election of 1804 was the first one in which the electors voted for president and vice president on separate ballots.
		Presidential elections in song, verse, commercials, and more.(Surfing the Net) (Social Education)
		Identities of competitive states in U.S. presidential elections: electoral college bias or candidate-centered politics?
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781450.html (699 words)

	Index Bi-Bl
		He won election to the Kentucky legislature in 1816, and in 1818 he moved to Alabama, where he was elected to the legislature in the following year.
		After the election of James A. Garfield in 1880, he resigned his Senate seat to become secretary of state.
		Elected as a deputy in elections for the 6th Saeima (1995), Birkavs was again named foreign minister in December 1995 under the government headed by Andris Skele, and he maintained his office in Prime Minister Guntars Krasts' government, confirmed on Aug. 7, 1997.
	www.rulers.org /indexb3.html (9058 words)

	MSN Encarta - List of Items - Election – specific presidential elections
		U.S. Astronaut Shannon Lucid took human achievement to new heights, women voters proved a decisive factor in the U.S. presidential election, and the U.S. women's Olympic team turned in a stellar performance in the Atlanta Summer Games.
		In 1996 women broke new ground in space as well as on Earth.
		table of Presidential voting results – 2000 election
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210052907_54.2/1996_Women.html (70 words)

	Resolution Annexing Texas to the US
		The annexation of Texas was a key issue in James K. Polk's U. presidential election campaign of 1844.
		As a result, Polk's victory that November was interpreted in the United States as a mandate to annex the ten-year old republic.
		And be it further resolved, That if the President of the United States shall in his judgement and discretion deem it most advisable, instead of proceeding to submit the foregoing resolution of the Republic of Texas, as an overture on the part of the United States for admission, to negotiate with the Republic; then,
	www.lsjunction.com /docs/annex.htm (431 words)

	President Anson Jones- Secretary of State - Texas State Library
		By 1844, as a result of their diplomatic efforts, Britain had negotiated an armistice between Texas and Mexico; the Texas prisoners of war had been released; and the French were establishing regular steamship service to Texas.
		In this August 1844 letter on the annexation debate, Jones writes to Texas chargé d'affaires Charles H. Raymond in Washington demanding U.S. aid in the event of war breaking out between Texas and Mexico.
		January 1844 - President Houston resubmits annexation question to Texas Congress, orders Texas ministers to U.S. to pursue the matter in Washington
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/presidents/jones/state.html (836 words)

	GUIDELINES.RSCH.htm
		Let us set aside the uncontested elections of 1789, 1792, and 1820 and also the most recent (and bitterly contested) election of 2000.
		Each of the 21 students in the course is asked to pick a different Presidential election and prepare a summary report on it, using the template presented below.
		Is this election generally similar to or different from the previous presidential election (with respect to the candidates, party platforms, issues, etc.)?
	research.umbc.edu /~nmiller/POLI423/GUIDELINES.RSCH.htm (1937 words)

	Texas Treasures - Anson Jones - Texas State Library
		Neither the annexation proposal in Washington nor the peace negotiations in Mexico had borne fruit by 1844, a U.S. presidential election year.
		On April 12, 1844, the negotiations were completed and Texas signed an annexation treaty with the U.S. Ten days later, Tyler submitted the treaty to the Senate, along with hundreds of pages of supporting documents explaining the commercial and pro-slavery benefits of the move.
		In one of the closest elections in U.S. history, Polk was victorious.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/giants/jones/jones-01.html (1841 words)

	Florida Voter Registration
		In the 1960 presidential election, an additional one vote per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Texas may have altered the course of America's modern history by denying John F. Kennedy the presidency and placing Richard Nixon in the White House eight years earlier.
		In 1876, no presidential contender received a majority of electoral votes so the determination of the country's president was again thrown into the U.S. House of Representatives.
		The election was again thrown into the House of Representatives, where John Quincy Adams defeated front runner Andrew Jackson by one vote to become the nation's 6th president.
	www.whc.net /irish/government/ap/onevote.htm (1265 words)

	James K. Polk
		Polk received one delegate vote for the presidential nomination during the eighth round of voting, and won the nomination with 233 votes in the next round making him the first dark-horse candidate to win his party's nomination.
		The 1844 campaign centered upon the annexation of Texas and the re-occupation of Oregon.
		In the election, Polk defeated Clay and Birney to become the eleventh president of the United States.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/public/polk.htm (1244 words)

	United States Democratic Party - free-definition
		In the extremely close 2000 Presidential election, some progressives, unhappy with the centrist shift of the party, bolted it to support the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, which likely took votes away from Democratic presidential nominee Albert A. Gore Jr.
		Following his defeat in the election of 1824 despite having a plurality of the popular vote, Andrew Jackson set about building a political coalition strong enough to defeat John Quincy Adams in the election of 1828.
		This recounts of pivotal states' election results were ended by intervention by the Supreme Court.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /United-States-Democratic-Party.html (2203 words)

	Results of Presidential Elections - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		Starting with the 1804 election, the method of electing the Vice President, as spelled out in the 12th Amendment, led to separate ballots cast for the President and Vice President, with the winner in each race gaining the seat.
		In 1854, Congress established Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November; 1856 was the first time all presidential elections happened on the same day by law.
		Prior to the 1804 election, the method of electing the Vice President, as spelled out in the Constitution, was for the first runner-up to be the Vice President.
	www.usconstitution.net /elections.html (278 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1900 - TheBestLinks.com - Illinois, New York, Nebraska, November 6, ...
		The election was held on November 6, 1900.
		U.S. presidential election, 1900, Illinois, New York, Nebraska, November 6...
		U.S. presidential election, 1900- TheBestLinks.com - Illinois, New York, Nebraska, November 6,...
	www.thebestlinks.com /U.S._presidential_election__2C___1900.html (190 words)

	Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: U.S. Congressional Documents
		Students and researchers on the subject of the presidential elections and the electoral college may find it useful to consult the Law Library of Congress Research Guide to Election Resources, a resource guide to both electronic and printed materials on the subject.
		A wide variety of materials on presidential elections and the electoral college may be found in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation.
		On March 19, 1860, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896, was born.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/lwec.html (454 words)

	President Elect - 1824
		About a year before the election he suffered a paralytic stroke which weakened him physically throughout the campaign.
		In fact, all the presidential and vice presidential candidates were from the same party.
		He had served as a U.S. Senator, a minister to France, and was also both President Jefferson and President Monroe's Secretary of the Treasury.
	www.presidentelect.org /e1824.html (779 words)

	Presidential Election Law - Don't Litigate - Negotiate!
		In six other elections (1828, 1840, 1844, 1848, 1864, and 1868), the shift of a small number of votes in a few states — fewer than 20,000 in the first four -- would have resulted in the election of the other candidate.
		In 1876, the outcome of the election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was in doubt for months as the result of the submission of double slates of electors in four states.
		The very first seriously contested presidential election, in 1800, was thrown into the House of Representatives after an Electoral College tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr that resulted from a double-balloting anomaly in the Constitution.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /election/electionross3.htm (2512 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		Given that the last Presidential election was "won" by the candidate who lost the popular vote and was awarded the winning electoral college votes after his brother arranged that he should, the only surprising thing is that so many Republicans are convinced that the next Presidential election will be fair.
		GOP insistence that the courts have no role in determining election law to the contrary of unambiguous statutory provisions, but on the other hand accepting absentee ballots that did not comport with Florida statutory law in 2000, which presumably, by their own logic, was illegal.
		The US Supreme Court screwed up in 2000 with its decision.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_10/004991.php (14795 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		In the midst of the 1844 presidential campaign between James K. Polk and Henry Clay, a letter was published in a newspaper in Ithaca, New York claiming that a reputable witness (one Baron von Roorback) had seen Polk purchase and brand 43 slaves.
		The quadrennial circus is in full spin once again and the media are rife with colorful examples of campaign bafflegab and officialese centering on the 2004 presidential election.
		In colonial America, "mugwump" derisively implied someone who was a "big shot." The first political mugwumps were Republicans in the presidential race of 1884 who chose to support Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland rather than their own party's nominee.
	www.m-w.com /info/election.htm (1172 words)

	Secretary of State :: Elections Division
		If any other political party, or an independent presidential candidate, wishes to appear on Indiana's presidential election ballot, the party or candidate must circulate a petition to be placed on the ballot.
		Until the 1936 presidential election, the name of each presidential elector candidate appeared on the statewide ballot.
		The state party conventions are usually held no later than June before the presidential election.
	www.in.gov /sos/elections/voters/electors.html (3881 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Election 2004. The Evolution of Campaign Ads PBS
		The Museum of Television and Radio in its history of presidential campaign ads notes that in 1948 Harry Truman had travelled 31,000 miles in his campaign trips.
		In 1860 Abraham Lincoln said "Vote Yourself a Farm" — in 1900 William McKinley promised "A Full Dinner-Pail." And in 1956, Eisenhower ran for re-election on his "Peace and Prosperity" platform.
		The American Museum of the Moving Image presents a Web feature which allows you to view nearly all the presidential campaign spots for the past fifty years.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/electionads.html (909 words)

	6.4.9 Campaigns and Elections
		The election of 1876 was quite a mess.
		See the Electoral College Box Scores for the 1972 and 1984 elections.
		He was the first sitting vice president in the 20th century to win election to president.
	home.comcast.net /~sharonday7/Presidents/AP060409.htm (969 words)

	Printable Maps - Elections
		These Presidential Elections printable maps show electoral votes won, by political party, for the fifty-four Presidential elections from George Washington in 1789 to George W. Bush in 2000.
		File Sizes: Each map page in PDF format ranges from 400 - 630KB, with the exception of the Presidential Election 2000 page which is 3.1MB.
		Printable Maps List: Presidential Elections 1789- 2000
	nationalatlas.gov /printable/elections.html (281 words)

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