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The Federalist Party considered endorsing Clinton's candidacy, but ultimately chose to re-nominate their 1804 ticket of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Rufus King. Clinton received just six electoral votes for president as Madison consolidated support within the party.
The Federalist Party was a conservative [8] ... George Clinton won the election for governor and used the vast state patronage fund to help the Republican cause.
Sitting Vice President George Clinton and former Ambassador James Monroe both challenged Madison for leadership of the party, but Madison won his party's nomination and Clinton was renominated as vice president. The Federalists chose to re-nominate Pinckney, a former ambassador who had served as the party's 1804 nominee, again alongside Rufus King.
A dissident faction of the Federalist Party attempted to nominate former vice presidential candidate Rufus King over Clinton, but only succeeded in doing so in Virginia. Despite Clinton's success at attracting Federalist support, Madison was re-elected with 50.4 percent of the popular vote to his opponent's 47.6%, making the 1812 election the ...
Despite growing problems for the Federalist Party, they made gains in the 1799 state election following the Manhattan Company scandal, in which Aaron Burr maneuvered the passage of an act chartering a company "for supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water". However, the bill contained a provision granting the new company the ...
The Federalist Party threw its support behind the incumbent vice president, John Adams of Massachusetts, while the Democratic-Republican Party backed the candidacy of New York Governor George Clinton. Because few doubted that Washington would receive the greatest number of votes, Adams and Clinton were effectively competing for the vice ...
The Anti-Federalists would later form a party called the Democratic-Republicans. Fast forward to 1828, and Andrew Jackson changed the Democratic-Republican Party's name to the Democrats.
Party Democratic-Republican: Federalist: Home state Virginia: South Carolina: Running mate George Clinton: Rufus King: Electoral vote 162: 14 States carried 15: 2 Popular vote 105,524: 38,519 Percentage 73.2%: 26.7%