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1804 United States presidential election in Connecticut
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1804 United States presidential election
1804 United States presidential election in Connecticut Connecticut File:Flag of the United States (1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Connecticut 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Connecticut 1808 November 1 or 2, 1804The election took place during the October session of the Connecticut General Assembly, which adjourned on November 2. The Assembly resolution appointing the electors is not dated.Lipson 1986 107, 115 The earliest legal date for the election was November 1, 34 days preceding the first Wednesday in December.Stanwood 1896 18 TN 200x200px File:James Earl - General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney - Google Art Project (3x4 cropped b).jpg Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Federalist Party (United States) South Carolina Rufus King 9 President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party
A presidential election was held in Connecticut in 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election. The Connecticut General Assembly chose nine electors,Lipson 1986 115 all Federalists,Electors of President and Vice President https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Balance_and_Columbian_Repository/wdIRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=14&pg=PA366 Balance and Columbian Repository November 13, 1804 who voted for former U.S. minister to France Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and former U.S. minister to Great Britain Rufus King.Dauer 2002 182
Pinckney lost the national election in a landslide to the Democratic-Republican incumbent president, Thomas Jefferson. Connecticut was one of two states to back the losing Federalist candidates, in addition to Delaware and two single-member districts in Maryland.Dauer 2002 159, 182
General election
+ 1804 United States presidential election in ConnecticutLipson 1986 115 Party Candidate Federalist David Daggett Federalist Oliver Ellsworth Federalist Sylvester Gilbert Federalist Joshua Huntington Federalist Asher Miller Federalist David Smith Federalist Lewis B. Sturges Federalist John Treadwell Federalist Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
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United States presidential elections in Connecticut
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Dauer Manning Julian Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. Israel Fred L. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001 1 Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia 2002 Election of 1804 159–82 https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01schl/page/158/mode/2up
Lipson Dorothy Ann The Public Records of the State of Connecticut 12 1986 Connecticut State Library Hartford https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067359935&seq=1
Stanwood Edward A History of Presidential Elections 4th 1896 Houghton, Mifflin, and Company Boston https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Presidential_Elections/JTJFmhY5Ys8C
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