How many presidential rematches have there been?
When it comes to the major candidates in a general election, this year's election will be the ninth rematch:
•John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson: 1796 & 1800
•John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson: 1824 & 1828
(William H. Crawford and Henry Clay were also candidates in 1824)
•Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: 1824 & 1832
(John Quincy Adams and William H. Crawford were also candidates in 1824; John Floyd and William Wirt were also candidates in 1832)
•Martin Van Buren vs. William Henry Harrison: 1836 & 1840
(Hugh L. White, Daniel Webster, and Willie P. Mangum were also candidates in 1836)
•Grover Cleveland vs. Benjamin Harrison: 1888 & 1892
(James B. Weaver was also a candidate in 1892)
•William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan: 1896 & 1900
•Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. Adlai E. Stevenson: 1952 & 1956
•Bill Clinton vs. Ross Perot: 1992 & 1996
(George H.W. Bush was also a candidate in 1992; Bob Dole was also a candidate in 1996)
•Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump: 2020 & 2024
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Page from the Senate Legislative Journal Showing the Expungement of a Resolution to Censure the President
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Journals and Minute BooksFile Unit: Minute Books and Journals of the 23rd Congress
[near upper-left corner in Image:] 552
The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the Senators present those who voted in the affirmative, are
Messrs. Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Kent, King of Georgia, Knight, Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, [struck-through:"Tallm"] Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggaman, Webster.
Those who voted in the negative are Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grundy, Hill, Kane, King of Al[']a. [abbreviation for "Alabama"; "a" seen in superscript in Image above "."]], Linn, M[']cKean, Moore, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright.
On M[']r. Clay having modified his said first resolution to read as follows
[[the following text is enclosed in a hand drawn [rectangular] box]] Resolved that the President in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
[[the following text is written vertically over the text in the hand drawn box]] Expunged by order of the Senate this sixteenth day of January in the Year of our Lord 1837.
On the question to agree thereto
It was determined in the affirmative
Yeas 26 Nays 20.
On motion by M[']r. Clay,
The yeas and nays b[[?]] [[?]]ired by
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I don’t remember all of my dreams, but what I do remember is that Henry Clay appears in a lot of them. Whether he’s in the whole dream or just pops in for a second to talk about compromises varies from dream to dream. Henry Clay is that fairy who won’t go away.
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what wouls be the ideal antebellum presidential ticket for you
This is not necessarily a presidential ticket, but you KNOW clay and van buren would've been too powerful if they were on the same team
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