What about the U.S. presidential election? (1840)

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The 1840 presidential election was the 14th general election in the United States, with three parties nominating candidates.

The Democrats nominated presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, not the vice presidential candidate;

The Whig Party nominees a combination of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison and vice presidential candidate John Taylor;

The Liberal Party nominated presidential candidate James Burney, and the Liberal Party also nominated Vice Presidential candidate Thomas Earle, but I couldn't find Earl's information, not even a photo, and I couldn't introduce it, so I had to leave it out below.

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The Democratic Party nominated presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, not the vice presidential candidate.

The current Vice President Johnson and President Van Buren worked so badly together that Van Buren didn't play with him when he sought re-election.

At the Democratic National Convention held in May 1840, Van Buren was unanimously nominated by all members to become the Democratic presidential candidate, but the delegates could not agree on the nomination of the vice presidential candidate, and the final decision was for each state to nominate its own vice presidential candidate.

Although nominated, Van Buren was not favored by most people, mainly because of the economic downturn since 1837, and in fact, it was almost impossible for any Democrat to win the 1840 election.

There's a small problem here.

If Van Buren is elected president, and several Democratic vice presidential candidates do not have a majority of the electoral votes, it will be left to the Senate to decide who will be vice president, as was the case last time.

In this case, it is possible that the Senate will decide on the Whigs as vice president.

At that time, there will again be a situation where the president and vice president belong to different parties. The last time this happened was in 1796, when President Adams and Vice President Jefferson were on different parties.

In the end, this did not happen, and the problem did not become a problem.

Abandoned by Van Buren, Vice President Johnson was not reconciled to defeat and vowed to run for vice president again in 1840 in preparation for his later stay in the White House.

I didn't find his mark for vice president in 1840.

Johnson also failed to move into the White House, and he spent the rest of his life in the Senate in Kentucky without making a splash.

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The Whig Party nominees a combination of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison and vice presidential candidate John Taylor.

In the Whig primary, Harrison's strongest rival was Whig leader Henry Clay.

Henry Clay is an old friend of ours (and has appeared several times in my article), he ran for the first time in 1824, the second time in 1832, and this time for the third time. He will have a fourth and a fifth.

Harrison was born in 1773, four years older than Clay, and by 1840 he was 67 years old.

Although he did not have an advantage in age, he was a hero in the 1812 war between the United States and England, a man like former President Jackson, and after all, he proved his strength in the 1836 election, winning 73 electoral votes, which should not be underestimated.

The Whig National Convention ultimately elected Harrison as the presidential candidate and John Taylor as the vice presidential candidate.

John Taylor, born on March 29, 1790 in Virginia to a large estate family, graduated from the College of William and Mary, entered the Virginia Legislature, and served as a federal congressman, governor of Virginia, and a federal senator.

A former Democrat, he joined the Whig Party because of his opposition to President Jackson's policies and ideas, and soon after joining the Whig Party, Taylor became one of the two Whig nominees for vice president in 1836. In 1840, Taylor went one step further and became the only candidate for vice president.

In 1836, the Whigs' plan of four candidates failed; In 1840, the Whigs had a new idea.

The Whigs described Van Buren and Harrison as two very different people:

Van Buren is the emperor who lives in the White House, with fine clothes and fine food, endless red wine and champagne, endless meals, wanting to dip brown sugar in brown sugar, wanting to dip in white sugar and white sugar; Extravagant, sleeping in the same bed as Louis XV (Louis XV was one of the most extravagant kings of France), wearing silk and satin, spraying fine perfumes, using tableware made of gold and silver, and laying a carpet as soft as a sponge (one step at a time, I wonder what is good about such a carpet?). ）

Harrison is a grassroots-born hero who has played a major role in the war, but like everyone else, he still lives in a log cabin; He, like everyone else, drinks popular sour cider.

Under the propaganda of the Whig Party, what the people heard and gradually believed was the "fact" that Van Buren was a particularly rich snob, and Harrison was an honest commoner who was not very rich.

This time, the Whig Party's strategy proved to be successful, with the richer Harrison becoming the more popular candidate.

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The Liberal Party has nominated presidential candidate James Burney for the general election.

"Liberal" is the name of a political party that only existed in 1841, and when it was first founded in April 1840, it did not have a fixed name, but it was called the Human Rights Party, the Free People's Party or the Abolitionist Party, and it can be seen from the name "Abolitionist Party" that the main goal of the party was to end slavery.

James Burnie, born in an unknown date (I didn't find out), was born into a family of slave owners in Kentucky, freed all the slaves in his family after his father's death, and joined the abolitionist movement.

In 1836, he founded the newspaper "Fraternity". In July of the same year, a mob stormed the printing house and burned a large number of newspapers. In September of the same year, another abolitionist newspaper published a story about the mob destroying Bernie's printing house and burning down the newspaper The Fraternity, which caused a great reaction at the social level. In November of the same year, the Claremont County Abolitionist Society was formed.

On April 1, 1840, at a rally of 121 abolitionists, he was nominated for the presidency.

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The results of the 1840 U.S. presidential election were:

The Whig Harrison and Taylor combination received 234 electoral votes, and a majority was elected; It received 52.9% of the popular vote.

The Democratic presidential nominee, Van Buren, lost with 60 electoral votes; It received 46.8% of the popular vote, which is not a low percentage of votes.

Bernie, the Liberal Party's presidential nominee, lost the election without getting electoral votes; 0.3% of the popular vote.

Harrison became the ninth president in U.S. history, becoming the oldest president of the time at the age of 67, a record that lasted until 140 years (that's a long time!). It was only in 1980 that Ronald Reagan, 69, was elected.

Taylor became the tenth vice president in U.S. history.

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On March 4, 1840, Harrison was sworn in as President of the United States.

At the inauguration ceremony, Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address of a U.S. president (a record that has not been broken to this day), with about 8,500 words in English and about 100 minutes of speech.

Harrison didn't wear a coat in the cold weather in early March, and the audience was still "shivering" in the coat; Three weeks later, Harrison developed symptoms of pneumonia; On April 4, he died.

Some people say that the cause of pneumonia is that he did not wear a coat during his opening speech, while others argue that if he did, he would not wait until three weeks later for symptoms to appear. I'm wondering, is there an incubation period of 3 weeks?

Harrison was the first president to die in office, the shortest tenure in U.S. history (only 32 days at all, a record that has not been broken to this day).

In accordance with the relevant provisions of the federal constitution, Vice President Taylor succeeded him as president, becoming the youngest president in the history of the United States to that time, the first president born after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and the first president born after having a president of the United States.

From March 4 to April 4, 1840, the United States experienced a magical transition from the oldest president to the youngest president.

Just one month after becoming vice president, Taylor became the 10th president in U.S. history, a pace that has not been broken to this day.

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