The election of 1800 didn't invent the idea ... Meilan Solly / Photos via public domain and Library of Congress President John Adams chased the dawn right out of Washington, D.C., departing ...

In 1788, when John Adams ... election process, each elector in the Electoral College cast two ballots. The candidate with the most votes became the president; the candidate with the second ...

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 had to be ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams. News from ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

However, the most divisive delay in a presidential election occurred during the 1800 race, when Thomas Jefferson challenged incumbent John Adams. It was the longest election in U.S. history ...