Also like today, the election of 1800 seemed to last forever. “Electioneering is already begun,” the first lady, Abigail Adams, noted 13 months before the Electoral College was to meet.

Description. In the election of 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Federalist Party candidate and incumbent President John Adams in a contest that ...

In many ways, the election of 1800 between Federalist President John Adams and Republican Vice President Thomas Jefferson — resembled 2020.

In 1800, the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties. Hear professor Richard Beeman and NPR's Liane Hansen.

The 1800 election was a showdown between the country’s first two political parties: the Federalists, led by Adams; and the Democratic Republicans, captained by Jefferson.

Professor Ed Larson teaches a class on American legal history at Pepperdine University in Malibu. In the class of Monday, February 14, 2011, he lectured on the 1800 election contest between Thomas ...

This was the backdrop to the election of 1800, which led to the first peaceful transfer of power in U.S. history — an essential republican tradition. In this episode, ...

In the 1800 election, Thomas ]Jefferson’s partisans “accused the incumbent President Adams of having a hideous hermaphroditical character.” Wikimedia Commons.

As written by Jefferson, the historian Susan Dunn explains in “Jefferson’s Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism,” the Kentucky Resolutions.

In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson, left, and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, but public opinion sided with Jefferson. The Granger Collection, New York—2 ...