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	Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election
		The United States hold elections to federal offices every two years; midterm elections is the name given to elections when the United States House of Representatives and one third of the US Senate are being elected, but not the President.
		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).
		Jump to: navigation, search 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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/U.S.-presidential-election (1010 words)

	Wikinfo John Quincy Adams
		The decision in the Presidential Election of 1824 fell, according to the U.S. Constitution, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the States.
		Adams was then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834.
		He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=John_Quincy_Adams (546 words)

	Resignation from the British House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Members of Parliament of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign.
		The escheatorship of Munster was first used for parliamentary purposes in the Irish parliament from 1793 to 1800, and in the united parliament (24 times for Irish seats and once for a Scottish seat) from 1801 to 1820.
		This appointment was used in the united parliament three times, for Irish seats only; the last time in 1819.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steward_of_the_Manor_of_Northstead (920 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1824
		However, no candidate earned the 131 electoral votes required for victory, so the United States House of Representatives decided the election on February 9, 1825.
		See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1824
		Other elections: 1812, 1816, 1820, 1824, 1828, 1832, 1836
	www.fastload.org /u./U.S._presidential_election,_1824.html (150 words)

	United States: History
		In the 1820s and 30s the advance of democracy brought manhood suffrage to many states and virtual direct election of the President, and party nominating conventions replaced the caucus.
		the territorial gains and westward movement of the United States were focusing legislative argument on the extension of slavery to the new territories and breaking down the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
		In the United States, the Nasdaq Internet and technology stock bubble, which had begun its rise in 1999, completely deflated in the second half of 2000, as the so-called new economy associated with the Internet proved to be subject to the rules of the old economy.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0861712.html (13589 words)

	John Quincy Adams - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral votes in the Presidential election of 1824, none of the candidates were able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives, which to the surprise of many elected Adams over rival Andrew Jackson.
		In 1841, Adams represented the Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court of the United States and successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship where they were being held as illegal slaves, should not be returned to Spain, but returned home as free people.
		Adams received one electoral vote in the presidential election of 1820.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/John_Quincy_Adams (1055 words)

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		DESCRIPTION: 1 ALS dated 12/10/1812 from the Washington Benevolent Society of Massachusetts to Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" over the H.M.S. "Macedonian." Sent from Boston to New York.
		Attached is 1 AMS by Dodge admitting Decatur to the New York State Society of the Cincinnati and 1 ALS dated 2/10/1813 from Dodge to Decatur informing him of his election as an honorary member; sent from New York City to Commodore Decatur at Broadway.
		Initially, they lived next door to the Madisons in a house in one of the "Seven Buildings." In 1818-1819, Benjamin Henry Latrobe built the couple a house, which came to be known as Decatur House, next to Lafayette Square (then known as President's Square).
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/decatur (3309 words)

	Joseph Vance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, Vance served seven terms before losing a bid for an eighth term in 1834.
		Joseph Vance (March 21, 1786- August 24, 1852) was a Whig politician from Ohio.
		Vance then ran again for the House of Representatives in 1842, and served two more terms there before refusing to run for re-election in 1846.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Vance (214 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Q. Adams
		Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral votes in the Presidential election of 1824, none of the candidates were able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives, which to the surprise of many elected Adams over rival Andrew Jackson.
		Adams received one electoral vote in the presidential election of 1820.
		Adams appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Q.-Adams (772 words)

	USGenWeb --- Edgar County Illinois History Page
		It was agitated until 1856, when the Court, in answer to a united desire on the part of the people of the county, ordered an election to be held to determine the question.
		The influx of immigrants to the northern portions of Crawford County, in 1819 and 1820, led to the formation of Clark county, which, by a similar manner, in the spring of 1823, suffered a division, and Edgar County was the result.
		The first white child born in the county is supposed to have been Charlotte Stratton, a daughter of John Stratton, one of the first five white settlers, who is said to have been the first white man that ate his dinner in his own house on this side of the Wabash.
	www.rootsweb.com /~iledgar/edgarhist.htm (2054 words)

	Donald Woods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald's ancestors arrived in South Africa in 1820 to settle in, what was seen then by whites as, an empty land to the east of Cape Town; the land had however been settled by the Khoisan, Khoikhoi and Xhosa peoples for many hundreds of years.
		Donald Woods was one of the banned individuals and was effectively placed under house arrest.
		Woods then devised a plan to be smuggled out of his house, and made his way to Lesotho disguised as a priest, where his family joined him shortly after.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Woods (1181 words)

	IPL POTUS -- James Monroe
		James Monroe -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
		In the election of 1820 Monroe received every electoral vote except one.
		The bride in the first White House wedding was Monroe's daughter.
	www.potus.com /jmonroe.html (1181 words)

	JAMES MONROE - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES MONROE
		In 1820 he was re-elected, receiving all the electoral votes but one, which William Plumer (1759-1850) of New Hampshire cast for John Quincy Adams, in order, it is said, that no one might share with Washington the honor of a unanimous election.
		In 1790 he was elected to the United States senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Grayson, and although in this body he vigorously opposed Washingtons administration, Washington on the 27th of May 1794 nominated him as minist~r to France.
		On retiring from Congress he began the practice of law at Fredericksburg, Virginia, was chosen a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1787, and in 1788 was a member of the state convention which ratified for Virginia the Federal constitution.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONROE_JAMES.htm (2132 words)

	Encyclopedia: Clement Vallandigham
		Vallandigham lost the 1863 Ohio gubernatorial election in a landslide to pro-Union War Democrat John Brough, but his activism had left Dayton bitterly divided between pro- and anti-slavery factions and left in its wake an atmosphere of racial tension.
		A Federal circuit judge upheld Vallandigham's arrest and military trial as a valid exercise of the President's war powers and, in February 1864, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case.
		Vallandigham was a very strong supporter of states' rights and slavery, believing that the Confederacy had a right to secede and could not be conquered militarily.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Clement-Vallandigham (1831 words)

	Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery
		In 1791, he was elected to the Lower House of Congress, and remained a member until 1807, when he was chosen United States Senator, his term of office ending in 1813.
		John (1817-1902) lived in District township, where he had his own home and worked as a laborer; he married Sallie Moyer (1820-1905) and they are buried at Huff's Church.
		In 1826, he was appointed Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania by Gov. Joseph Hiester, and in 1823 he was nominated for Governor on the Federal ticket in opposition to John Andrew Shulze, but was defeated in the ensuing election.
	www.rootsweb.com /~paberks/books/montgomery/g13.html (10360 words)

	American President
		Wickliffe remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1860, and made an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Kentucky in 1863 as a “Peace Democrat.” Charles Anderson Wickliffe died in 1869.
		Wickliffe served until 1840 and was not nominated by his party to run for the gubernatorial election.
		Wickliffe was serving as commonwealth attorney for Nelson County in 1816, but by 1820, he was back in the state legislature.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johntyler/cabinet/PostmasterGeneral/CharlesAWickliffe/email.html (293 words)

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