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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.
1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America published. 1835 – Second Seminole War begins in Florida as members of the Seminole tribe resist relocation. 1836 – Creek War of 1836; 1836 – Samuel Colt invents the revolver. 1836 – Original "gag rule" imposed when U.S. House of Representatives bars discussion of antislavery petitions.
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.
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]
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Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and ...
Henry Perky of Denver develops a machine for making "little whole wheat mattresses", later called shredded wheat. June 23: U.S. President Benjamin Harrison issues a proclamation creating the Plum Creek Timber Land Reserve. [66] June 9: The Town of Cripple Creek incorporates. [63] May 19: The Town of Creede incorporates. [63] February 11
Harrison was the western Whig candidate for president in 1836, one of four regional Whig party candidates. The others were Daniel Webster , Hugh L. White , and Willie P. Mangum . More than one Whig candidate emerged in an effort to defeat the incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren , who was the popular Jackson-chosen Democrat. [ 90 ]