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John Adams beat Thomas Jefferson in the U.S. presidential election of 1796, but due to a peculiarity in the way vice presidents were selected, which wasn't corrected until 1804, Adams' opponent, Thomas Jefferson, became Vice President instead of Adams' running mate, Thomas Pinckney. Adams and Jefferson ran against each other again in the 1800 election, and that time Jefferson won (after the U.S. House of Representatives broke the tie between Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr).

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