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Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 ... Though many, including Clay, did not take his candidacy seriously at ... Tyler soon ended his incipient independent run for president ...
Henry Clay John C. Calhoun 182 99 74 2 7 Nathan Sanford 30 – – 3 27 Nathaniel Macon 24 – – 24 – Andrew Jackson 13 – 9 1 3 Martin Van Buren 9 – – 9 – Henry Clay 2 – – 2 – (No vote for vice president) 1 – 1 – – Total 261 99 84 41 37
Henry Clay: John Floyd William Wirt (Anti-Masonic) Year Democratic candidate Whig candidate Other candidate(s) 1836: Martin Van Buren† William Henry Harrison [h] Hugh Lawson White Daniel Webster Willie Person Mangum 1840: Martin Van Buren: William Henry Harrison† James G. Birney 1844: James K. Polk† Henry Clay
When the final votes were tallied in those 18 states on December 1, Andrew Jackson polled 152,901 popular votes to John Quincy Adams's 114,023; Henry Clay won 47,217, and William H. Crawford won 46,979. However, the electoral college returns gave Jackson only 99 votes, 32 fewer than he needed for a majority of the total votes cast.
John Tyler, the incumbent president in 1844, whose term expired on March 4, 1845 Political cartoon predicting Polk's defeat by Clay Grand National Whig banner. Henry Clay of Kentucky, effectively the leader of the Whig Party since its inception in 1834, [82] was selected as its nominee at the party's convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 1 ...
Note that the counting for Electoral College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did not distinguish between votes for president and vice-president, with the candidate receiving the second-highest number of such votes becoming the vice-president.
A post on X shows Trump ally Steve Bannon stating that President-Elect Donald Trump can actually run for a third term as President by law. Verdict: False The 22nd amendment of the U.S ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 2 to December 5, 1832. Incumbent president Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, defeated Henry Clay, candidate of the National Republican Party.