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The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership. This was the first presidential election in American history to be a rematch. It was also the first election in American history where an incumbent president did not win re-election. Adams had narrowly defeated Jefferson in the 1796 election.
The 1800 United States elections elected the members of the 7th United States Congress. The election took place during the First Party System, and is generally considered the first realigning election in American history. [4] It was the first peaceful transfer of power between parties in American history. [5]
The 1800–01 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 29, 1800, and August 1, 1801. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 7th United States Congress convened on December 7, 1801.
January 10 – William Henry Harrison becomes the first Governor of the Indiana Territory. January 31 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States . February – Contingent election of 1801 : An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and ...
The following elections occurred in 1801: North America. United States. 1801 New York gubernatorial election; United States Senate election in New York, 1801;
Washington, D.C. local elections, such as Mayor and Councilmen, restored after a 100-year gap in Georgetown, and a 190-year gap in the wider city, ending Congress's policy of local election disfranchisement started in 1801 in this former portion of Maryland – see: D.C. Home rule. 1974. A challenge to felony disenfranchisement, Richardson v.
During the 1800 elections, there was an intense growth of partisan politics, the political party of the executive branch of government changed for the first time, and there was an unprecedented peaceful transition of the political orientation of the country's leadership. [13]
Although the Federalists began the 7th Congress with a slim majority, Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party took over the majority shortly thereafter due to mid-year special elections. By the time the first proper session of the 7th Congress met in December 1801, three seats had been gained by the Democratic-Republicans, leaving them with an ...