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The 1792 United States presidential election in Virginia took place between November 2 and December 5, 1792, as part of the 1792 United States presidential election. Virginia's 21 electors each cast one vote for the incumbent, George Washington, and one vote for John Adams, the incumbent Vice President. [1] Virginia unanimously voted for ...
By 1792, a party division had emerged between Federalists led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who desired a stronger federal government with a leading role in the economy, and the Democratic-Republicans led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Representative James Madison of Virginia, who favored states' rights and opposed ...
The 1792 United States elections elected the members of the 3rd United States Congress. Congress was broadly divided between a Pro-Administration faction supporting the policies of George Washington's administration and an Anti-Administration faction opposed to those policies.
* Jefferson received only 4 of Maryland's 10 electoral votes in the 1796 election. In 1800, he received 5 of 10. † Jefferson received only 20 of Virginia's 21 electoral votes in the 1796 election. ‡ Jefferson received only 8 of North Carolina's 12 electoral votes in the 1800 election, as opposed to the 11 of 12 he received in 1796.
The 1792 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on 30 November 1792 in order to elect the Governor of Virginia. Incumbent Federalist Governor of Virginia Henry Lee III won re-election in the Virginia General Assembly as he ran unopposed.
In 1758, Washington again stood for election to the House of Burgesses. Washington's campaign was managed by Colonel James Wood, who procured 160 gallons of alcoholic drinks and distributed them gratis to 391 voters in the county. [5] Washington won the election with more than 39-percent of the vote.
Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824–1861. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1654-5. Tartar, Brent (2013). The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3431-0. Wallenstein, Peter (2007).
The 1792–93 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 27, 1792, and September 6, 1793. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 3rd United States Congress convened on December 2, 1793.