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Nine different Federalists received electoral votes for vice president, but Tompkins won re-election by a large margin. No other post-Twelfth Amendment presidential candidate has matched Monroe's electoral vote share. Monroe and George Washington remain the only presidential candidates to run without any major opposition. Monroe's victory was ...
Monroe and his vice president, Daniel D. Tompkins, would have won reelection unanimously through the electoral college, had there not been a handful of faithless electors; one presidential elector cast his vote for John Quincy Adams, while a handful of electors (mostly former Federalists) cast votes for a number of Federalist candidates for ...
James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in his parents' house in a wooded area of Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia, to (Andrew) Spence Monroe and Elizabeth Jones. The marked site is one mile (1.6 km) from the unincorporated community known today as Monroe Hall, Virginia .
#5. James Monroe. Top Rank: No. 7 Bottom Rank: No. 21. The last Founding Father to be president, President James Monroe doesn't garner the same degree of praise as his fellow early American ...
During James Monroe's first term, the country had suffered an economic depression and slavery had emerged as a divisive issue. Despite these problems, [ 107 ] the collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed, [ 108 ] the only president other than George ...
The America we aspire to is built on the principle that everyone has a voice in shaping the future of our nation. Voting is not only a civic duty but also the most direct way to shape the country ...
There’s an unlikely connection between Louis Armstrong and Beetlejuice — or at least there is for James Monroe Iglehart, the Tony-winning Broadway star of the new musical “A Wonderful World ...
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