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The1836 United States presidential election was the 13th election in thehistory of the United States. It occurred on November 4 to December 6, 1836.
This election was a five-way race between the Democratic nominee, Vice PresidentMartin Van Buren ofNew York and the four Whig nominees, those being General and former Minister to Gran ColombiaWilliam Henry Harrison ofOhio, Senator Hugh L. White of Tennessee, SenatorDaniel Webster ofMassachusetts and Senator Willie P. Mangum ofNorth Carolina. Van Buren won the election with 170 electoral votes, while Harrison got 73 electoral votes, White got 26 electoral votes, Webster got 14 electoral votes, and Mangum got 11 electoral votes.
While Van Buren won 170 electoral votes (22 more then needed to win), no vice presidential nominee won the required 148 electoral votes needed to become Vice President, as there were three nominees for VP, those being CongressmanRichard Mentor Johnson ofKentucky, Congressman Francis Granger ofNew York, and former SenatorJohn Tyler ofVirginia.
However, the final results would show that the 23 members of the electoral college from Virginia would not vote for Johnson, instead voting for former Senator William Smith of South Carolina due to dissent from the electors related to Johnson's interracial relationship with a slave.
Due to this, the final results for the vice-presidential candidates would be that Johnson would get 147 electoral votes, while Granger would get 77 electoral votes, Tyler would get 47 electoral votes, and Smith would get 23 electoral votes. Thus, under the 12th amendment, the U.S. senate would meet on February 8, 1837 and would elect Johnson as VP in a 33-16 vote.
Van Buren would be the third incumbent vice president in U.S. history to win the presidency (afterJohn Adams in1796 andThomas Jefferson in1800) and would be the last VP to achieve this until the election ofGeorge H. W. Bush in1988. Van Buren and Harrison would both run against each other again in 1840, and Harrison would be elected as the 9th President.
Van Buren is also the most recent Democrat in U.S. history to replace a two-term Democratic president,[b] and the only incumbent Democratic vice president to win the presidency. This also marks the last time that a sitting vice president was elected president after only serving for one term.
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| 8th Vice President of the United States (1833–1837) | U.S. Representative fromKentucky (1807–1819, 1829–1837) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| William Henry Harrison | Francis Granger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| U.S. Minister for Gran Columbia (1829) | U.S. Representative fromNew York (1835-1837, 1839-1841, 1841-1843) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hugh Lawson White | John Tyler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| U.S. Senator fromTennessee (1825-1840) | U.S. Senator fromVirginia (1827-1836) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| U.S. Senator fromMassachusetts (1827-1841) | U.S. Representative fromNew York (1835-1837, 1839-1841, 1841-1843) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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