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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 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.
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and during the ratifying process in 1788, Madison was one of the most prominent advocates of a smaller national government. He wrote The Federalist Papers, together with Hamilton and John Jay. In 1789 and 1790, Madison was a leader in support of a new federal government with limited powers. [8]
Elections were held for the 3rd United States Congress, in 1792 and 1793. 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.
(f) One elector from Virginia did not vote and another elector from Virginia was not chosen because an election district failed to submit returns. (g) The identity of this candidate comes from The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections (Gordon DenBoer (ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, p. 441).
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.
It called for elections to another meeting if Virginia's Ordinance of Secession were to pass referendum. After the vote was taken on May 23, the First Session of the Second Wheeling Convention met from June 11 June 25 to establish the Restored Government of Virginia, electing Arthur I. Boreman its presiding officer. [54]