What happend during the presidential election of 1792?

When did the 2nd presidential election take place?

The second presidential election took place in 1792 and George Washington won a second term .

What date did George Washington take the oath to become the first president?

* First Inaugural (1789) * Second Inaugural (1793)

When did the first presidential election take place?

Polls opened on December 15, 1788, closed on January 10, 1789. 12 Candidates listed, but for all practical purposes, the only reason the other 11 were listed was to decide who would be the vice-president for George Washington, and that ended up being John Adams.

What role did the Electoral College play in George Washington?

The first U.S. presidential election was in 1789. George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. The election was conducted under the new United States Constitution, which had been ratified earlier in 1788. In the election, George Washington received all 69 electoral votes and was unanimously elected president. George Washington was unanimously reelected president in 1792 receiving all 132 electoral votes.

Which state cast electoral votes for all five of the candidates in the presidential election of 1792?

The electoral votes in 1792 were George Washington (132), John Adams (77), George Clinton (50), Thomas Jefferson (4), and Aaron Burr (1). Burr received his 1 vote from Virginia. Washington and Adams also received electoral votes from Virginia. Kentucky cast all of its 4 electoral votes for Jefferson. No state gave electoral votes to all 5 candidates in 1792.

What presidential election had the biggest difference in the votes of the electoral college?

George Washington received 100% of the electoral votes and was unanimously elected President in 1789 and 1792. In the 1820 election James Monroe was unopposed and received 231 (99.57%) of the 232 electoral votes. In the 1984 election Ronal Regan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. In the 1936 election Franklin D. Roosevelt received 523 (98.49%) of the 531 electoral votes. In the 1972 election Richard Nixon received 520 (96.65%) of the 538 electoral votes.

Who was selected President by the electoral college in a unanimous vote?

The first U.S. presidential election was in 1789. George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. The election was conducted under the new United States Constitution, which had been ratified earlier in 1788. In the election, George Washington received all 69 electoral votes and was unanimously elected president. In 1792 George Washington received all 132 electoral votes and was unanimously reelected president.

What president had an unanimous vote?

George Washington- The only president elected unanimously. All 69 electors voted for him in 1789, and all 132 electors voted for him in 1792.

How many general elections are held so far?

54. The first election was in 1792, and the most recent was 2008. There have been 216 years between those two, with an election every four years.

How old was George Washington when he was reelected?

He was 60 in the election of 1792, which he won easily. He was 61 when inaugurated for his second term (March 4, 1793).

Which was the first election in human history?

In 1792, the first election with universal male suffrage in Revolutionary France In 1893 the first election with universal suffrage in New Zealand, althought women couldn't run as a candidate In 1907 the first election with universal suffrage and availability for women to run as a candidate in Finland Eläköön Suomi!

How many losing presidential candidates eventually became president?

Between 2 and 4 times, depending on how you count. It has happened only once on a dual ticket, in the format you are familiar with today. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) lost the 1920 election as the vice-presidential nominee with James N. Cox to Warren G. Harding. He won in a landslide election 12 years later, in 1932, defeating incumbant Herbert Hoover. In races before that, you probably wouldn't recognize how the races were run. Each president could have multiple running mates. A lot of the time, there were several candidates running for president with the same running mates. The election worked that the voter could vote for any president he wanted, and then also vote for whoever was listed as that president's running mate. Every vote for vice-president no matter who was listed at the top of the ticket counted. James K. Polk lost the 1840 election as one of3potential vice-presidents running on the incumbant Martin Van Buren ticket versus 1 on the challenging William Henry Harrison ticket. Not only did his party loose the presidentialelection, he came in last among the4 vice-presidential candidates. He then won the 1844 election against Henry Clay. And a special case.... Andrew Jackson lost the 1824 vice-presidential election coming in 4th place out of 6 (all 6 running as the bottom of multiple presidential tickets). He was listed as a possible vice president to 3 out of the 4 presidential candidates. Why was he not listed on the 4th presidential ticket? Because that was his ticket. He ran for president at the same time.... and won, but not really. No one won a majority, so the race went to the House of Representatives. Although he won more popularvotes and more electoral votes, he lost the vote in the house. He ran again in 1828 and won against his foe from the 1824 election, John Quincy Adams. The focus here is more that he lost the presidential election than loosing the vice-presidential election. And another special case.... John Tyler lost the 1836 vice-presidential election. His party lost the presidential race, and he came in 3rd out of 4 in the vice-presidential race. He then ran for vice-president again in the 1840 election and won, and became president after only 30 days due to William Henry Harrison's famoulsy long winded speech in the middle of a cruddy day. He never actually won a presidential race, but still became president some time after loosing a vice-presidential race. It has also happened 2-4 times, however, that the incumbant vice-president won the presidential election. George H.W. Bush won the 1988 presidential election after winning the 1980 and 1984 vice-presidential elections on the Ronald Regan ticket. Martin Van Buren won the 1836 presidential election after winning the 1832 vice-presidential election on the Andrew Jackson ticket. and 2 special cases John Adams won the 1796 presidential election. However, there was yet a different system in place during the 1792 and 1789 elections where there were no votes for vice-president, it was just the person who got the second most votes for president that became vice-president. Thomas Jefferson won the 1800 presidential election under this same system, where he ran as the sitting vice-president against the sitting president and won (making John Adams the only former president to then serve as vice-president). So it seems that it does not matter if you win or loose a vice-presidential election, you have equal chances of eventually becoming president. (In fact it is far more common that the vice-president become president upon the death of the president.)