CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT,
Since the adoption of the Federal Constitution, March 1st, 1789.
The following is a list of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States, as well as those who were candidates for each office, since the organization of the Government: (vide pp. 21–25, 62.)
1789—George Washington[[116]] and John Adams, two terms, no opposition.
1797—John Adams, opposed by Thomas Jefferson[[116]] who, having the next highest electoral vote, became Vice-President.
1801—Thomas Jefferson[[116]] and Aaron Burr; beating John Adams and Charles C. Pinckney.[[116]]
1805—Thomas Jefferson[[116]] and George Clinton; beating Charles C. Pinckney[[116]] and Rufus King.
1809—James Madison[[116]] and George Clinton; beating Charles C. Pinckney.[[116]]
1813—James Madison[[116]] and Eldridge Gerry; beating De Witt Clinton.
1817—James Monroe[[116]] and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating Rufus King.
1821—James Monroe[[116]] and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating John Quincy Adams.
1825—John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun;[[116]] beating Andrew Jackson,[[116]] Henry Clay,[[116]] and William H. Crawford;[[116]] there being four candidates for President, and Albert Gallatin for Vice-President.
1829—Andrew Jackson[[116]] and John C. Calhoun[[116]]; beating John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush.
1833—Andrew Jackson[[116]] and Martin Van Buren; beating Henry Clay,[[116]] John Floyd,[[116]] and William Wirt for President; and William Wilkins, John Sergeant, and Henry Lee[[116]] for Vice-President.
1837—Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson[[116]]; beating William H. Harrison, Hugh L. White, and Daniel Webster for President, and John Tyler[[116]] for Vice-President.
1841—William H. Harrison and John Tyler[[116]]; beating Martin Van Buren and Littleton W. Tazewell.[[116]] Harrison died one month after his inauguration, and John Tyler[[116]] became President for the rest of the term.
1845—James K. Polk[[116]] and George M. Dallas; beating Henry Clay[[116]] and Theodore Frelinghuysen.
1849—Zachary Taylor[[116]] and Millard Fillmore; beating Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren for President, and William O. Butler[[116]] and C. F. Adams, for Vice-President.
1853—Franklin Pierce and William R. King[[116]]; beating Winfield Scott and William A. Graham.[[116]]
1857—James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge[[116]]; beating John C. Fremont and Millard Fillmore for President, and William L. Dayton and A. J. Donaldson[[116]] for Vice-President.
1861—Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin; beating John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and J. C. Breckinridge[[116]] for President.
1865—Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson,[[116]] Union candidates; beating G. B. McClellan and G. H. Pendleton.
1869—Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax; beating Horatio Seymour and Frank P. Blair, jr.
1873—Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson; beating Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown, for President and Vice-President.
1877—Rutherford B. Hayes and Wm. A. Wheeler; beating Samuel Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks.
1881—James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur; beating General W. S. Hancock and W. H. English. Arthur succeeded Garfield, after his death from assassination, Sept. 19, 1881, and David Davis is now Acting Vice-President.
1885—Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks, who defeated James G. Blaine and John A. Logan.
1889—Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, who defeated Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman.