Jefferson or Burr? Hamilton’s Letters in the Election of 1800 January 20, 2016itshamiltimeAaron Burr,Alexander Hamilton,Cataline,Catiline,Hamilton1 Comment I’ve written before about Hamilton’spivotal rolein the the Election of 1800. Below are some excerpts from Hamilton’s letters in December...
In November 1800, in an election conducted before presidential and vice-presidential candidates shared a single ticket,Thomas Jeffersonand his running mate, Aaron Burr, defeated Federalist incumbentJohn Adamswith 73 electoral votes each. The tie vote then went to the House to be decided, and Federa...
Jefferson thus had a vice president he didn’t trust, and he gave Burr virtually nothing to do in the job. Following the crisis, the Constitution was amended so the scenario of the 1800 election could not occur again. Burr was not nominated to run with Jefferson again in 1804. Aaron...
On the afternoon of September 23, 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, from his Monticello home, wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush, the noted Philadelphia physician. One matter dominated Jefferson’s thoughts: that year’s presidential contest. Indeed, December 3, Election Day—the date on which...
In the presidential election of 1800, Burr andThomas Jeffersoneach had 73 votes. The decision was then passed to the House of Representatives on the 36th ballot elected Jefferson as president. Burr served as Vice President under Jefferson (1801-1805). ...
where he ran two presidential campaigns and held the office of Vice President under Thomas Jefferson for a short time. Aaron Burr is probably most well known for hisduelwithAlexander Hamiltonin 1804 and his act of treason, which involved the land expansion of the United States and possible war...
The relationship only became more fractured during theelection of 1800. In this election, theElectoral Collegewas at an impasse as to the selection of the president betweenThomas Jefferson, who was running for president, and Burr, who had been running for the vice presidential position on the sa...
Jeffersonforthepresidency.Refusingtoconcedetheelection,heforcedtheHouseofRepresentativesto 36ballotsbeforeJeffersonwon;BurrreceivedlittleattentionfromJeffersonduringhisvice-presidency(1801–05).Climaxinga15-yearpublicandprivatefeudwithAlexander Hamilton,Burrchallenged,dueledwith,andkilledHamiltonin1804;afterfirstfleeing...
Jefferson and Burr each won 73 votes, and the election was sent to the House of Representatives. What at first seemed but an electoral technicality–handing Jefferson victory over his running mate–developed into a major constitutional crisis when Federalists in the lame-duck Congress threw their ...
The presidential election ended in a tie, with both Burr and Jefferson winning the same number of votes. Congress, where rumors circulated about Burr's Federalist leanings, was then given the task of breaking the tie and choosing the next president. Meanwhile, Alexander Hamilton argued strongly ...