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Silbey, Joel H. "Election of 1836," in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Fred L. Israel, eds. History of American Presidential Elections (4 vols., 1971), I, 577–64, history plus primary sources; Towers, Frank. "The Rise of the Whig Party." in A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (2013): 328–347.
December 7: Martin Van Buren elected president. October 15 – Alexander Twilight becomes the first African American elected to public office, joining the Vermont House of Representatives. [2] October 22 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected president of the Republic of Texas.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
1836 – Original "gag rule" imposed when U.S. House of Representatives bars discussion of antislavery petitions. 1836 – Specie Circular issued; 1836 – Arkansas becomes a state. 1836 – Texas is the Lone Star Republic; 1836 – U.S. presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren elected president, no one is elected vice president.
The Senate elected Johnson in a contingent election, the only time the Senate has ever chosen the vice president. Van Buren was the last sitting vice president to win election as president until George H. W. Bush 's election in 1988; this is also the most recent election in which a Democrat was elected to the U.S. presidency succeeding a ...
Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower —have been ineligible for election to a third term or, after serving more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president, to a ...
Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. ... “American Carnage.” ... which helped unify the party at a time when Biden’s ...
1836 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1836th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 836th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1836, the ...