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US presidential elections

1804: Thomas Jefferson

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When
1804

In one line: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) was re-elected over Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) in the first election held under the Twelfth Amendment; no campaign literature is catalogued in this archive.

Context

Jefferson received 162 electoral votes and Pinckney 14, of 176 cast; George Clinton (162) was elected vice president over Rufus King (14), with separate ballots for the two offices for the first time [1]. The American Presidency Project gives the electoral shares as 92.0 and 8.0 per cent [2]. Wikipedia reports a Jefferson popular vote of more than 106,000, about 73 per cent, in states where electors were chosen by popular vote; that figure is not on the two primary pages fetched and is cited to the cross-check only [3].

Wikipedia reports that Federalists portrayed Jefferson as a demagogue and a dictator, that Federalists in several states did not nominate electors, and that observers widely considered Jefferson unbeatable [3]. The sources fetched do not describe the media used.

Campaign literature

Candidate (party) Objects in the archive
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 0
Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist) 0

No campaign literature for 1804 is catalogued in this archive. A search of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs catalogue by candidate name with "campaign", "ticket", "broadside" and "cartoon" (4 queries) found no item that could be tied to the campaign. This does not show that nothing survives. No side has fewer items than another: both have none.

Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)

No objects catalogued.

Charles C. Pinckney (Federalist)

No objects catalogued.

Techniques visible

None, because no objects for this year are catalogued.

Sources

  1. National Archives, "1804 Electoral College Results", https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1804
  2. American Presidency Project, "1804", https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/1804
  3. Wikipedia, "1804 United States presidential election" (cross-check only): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_United_States_presidential_election