A contingent election determined the winner of the presidential election on two occasions in U.S. history - 1800 and 1824. In ...

I n March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in the U.S. Capitol to take the oath of office. He had participated vigorously in the partisan ...

Although the tactics that presidential hopefuls used in the ... the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond ...