No. The Democrats gained 9 seats in the House of Representatives, and 10 in the Senate - most unusual for a mid-term election.
War hawks being elected to congress refers to the election in 1810. The hawks were young Republicans who favored going to war against Britain.
Republicans in congress were outraged. The men who had led the south out of the union were being elected to the house and senate. Also, no southern states allowed African Americans to vote.
"he was elected by a small margin, and because the democrats and republicans blocked his the bills"
elected representatives
Clinton in 1996 was elected with a divided Congress in place. Truman (1948) and Roosevelt (1932) actually ran and won while the Republicans controlled Congress. They saw a Democratic Congress swept in on their coat-tails.
THE president is elected by the electrol college. Congress is elected by the people
he was elected the secondcontinental congress on 1787
Because the Republicans would not allow the creation of any new slave-states. So the South would always be outvoted in Congress.
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
The people that elected them to Congress.
There was no confederate congress so there was no president elected from both.
He was elected to congress from Illinois.