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Before the 12th amendment was ratified, the presidential electors each cast two votes for President and the second place finisher was made the vice-president. Nowadays, separate votes are take for President and vice-president.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoBefore the 12th amendment was ratified, the electors each cast two votes for president and the second place finisher was elected vice-president.
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Was Jefferson President or vice President?
Jefferson held both offices. He was elected vice president in 1796 when he came in second in the presidential vote. He was elected President in 1800 and again in 1804.
Who was defeated for vice president before he was elected president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for vice-president in 1920 but lost. He was elected President in 1932,1936,1940 and 1944.
Is the vice president elected?
Until the 12th amendment was ratified in 1804, the vice-president was the person getting the second most votes for presidents in the electoral college. Since then the vice-president is elected separately from the president, but by the same electors who swear in advance that they will vote according to their party's nominations for president and vice-president.
Who is the president elected with?
vice president
Can an employee be a vice president?
Anyone who get elected U.S. Vice President will resign his/her previous position before taking office.
What month was Alexander Hamilton elected President?
Alexander Hamilton was never elected President (or Vice-President). He served as the first Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington from 1789 until his resignation in 1795, and never held public office again. Hamilton was killed as the result of a duel with Vice-President Aaron Burr in 1804.
Are the President and the Vice President members of different political parties?
Not since 1804.. After the 12th amendment was ratified in 1804, candidates for president and vice-president run as a team and the same electors elect both of them in separate ballots. It could in theory happen again if the electoral college votes ends in a 269-269 tie, so that the House decides the President and the Senate elects the vice-president.
How are vice usually selected?
The vice president is elected with the president
Why was there no Vice President when Millard Filmore was president?
Fillmore was elected as vice-president and began president because President Taylor died in office. In those days, there was no way to replace the vice-president before the next election.
What difficulty arose from the president election of 1796?
John Adams was elected U. S. President in 1796. However, because of the way the Vice President Elect was determined before 1804, and because electors were casting their second ("vice presidential") votes for so many different people, instead of Adams' "running mate", Thomas Pinckney, getting the Vice Presidency, it went to the 2nd place finisher, Adams' opponent, Thomas Jefferson.
How is the vice-president elected?
The vice president is selected by the canidates and if they win the vice president they chose becomes vice president.
Who was elected as first vice president of the unided states?
John Adams was the 1st vice president elected.
