1836 United States presidential election

Election of Martin Van Buren November 2013 February 2023related races 1836 United States elections 1836 United States presidential election United States 1836 presidential no 1832 United States presidential election 1832 1840 United States presidential election 1840 294 members of the Electoral College 148 electoral 56.5%http://www.electproject.org/national-1789-present National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present United States Election Project CQ Press 0.5 pp November 4 – December 6, 1836Presidential Elections https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=WM18361112.1.3 Weekly Messenger November 12, 1836 An Act Entitled an Act to Provide for the Election of President and Vice President of the United States https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062070/1836-11-04/ed-1/seq-4 Arkansas Advocate November 4, 1836 Election Notice https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016620/1836-10-26/ed-1/seq-3 Constantine Republican October 26, 1836 Presidential Vote of S. Carolina https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084121/1836-12-13/ed-1/seq-2 Cheraw Gazette December 13, 1836 Martin Van Buren circa 1837 crop.jpg 150x150px Martin Van Buren Democratic Party (United States) New York Richard Mentor Johnson 167 (+3 disputed)michigan Including 3 electoral votes from Michigan. The United States Congress recognized Michigan statehood on January 26, 1837, after the election but before the electoral votes were counted. During the joint session of the United States Congress, the final electoral count was read twice, once with Michigan's votes included and once without.United States Congress 24th Congress, 2nd Session, February 4 Senate Journal http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(sj02647)) August 20, 2006 1837 203–204 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150404001932/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28sj02647%29%29 April 4, 2015 mdy-all 14 (+1 disputed) 764,176 50.8% William Henry Harrison by James Reid Lambdin, 1835 crop.jpg William Henry Harrison Whig Party (United States) Anti-Masonic Ohio Francis GrangerJohn Tyler served as Harrison's running mate in Maryland. 73 7 550,816 36.6% Unsuccessful 1836 2.jpg Hugh Lawson White Whig Party (United States) 800080 Tennessee John Tyler 26 2 146,109 9.7% Black Dan (cropped).jpg Daniel Webster Whig Party (United States) F88379 Massachusetts Francis Granger 14 1 41,201 2.7% Willie p magnum crop.jpg Willie P. Mangum Whig Party (United States) Nullifier Party 006D61 North Carolina John Tyler 11 1 0Mangum did not appear on the ballot in any state that chose its electors via a popular vote. His electoral votes were awarded by the South Carolina state legislature. 0.0%Mangum did not appear on the ballot in any state that chose its electors via a popular vote. His electoral votes were awarded by the South Carolina state legislature. 350px Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Van Buren/Johnson, Buff denotes those won by Harrison/Granger, Burgundy denotes those won by White/Tyler, Pink denotes those won by Webster/Granger, and Teal denotes those won by Mangum/Tyler. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. President Andrew Jackson Democratic Party (United States) Martin Van Buren Democratic Party (United States) yes 1837 contingent U.S. vice presidential election presidential no February 8, 1837 52 United States senators 27 Senate x150px Richard Mentor Johnson A29919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Richard Mentor Johnson Democratic Party (United States) 33 63.46% Francis Granger (cropped 3x4).jpg Francis Granger Whig Party (United States) 16 30.77% 350px 1837 US Contingent VP Election.svg Contingent election in the Senate. Blue denotes states that cast two votes for Johnson, buff denotes two votes for Granger, and black denotes abstentions. Hatching denotes states that split their votes. Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 3 to December 7, 1836. Incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren, candidate of the Democratic Party, defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party. The 1835 Democratic National Convention chose a ticket of Van Buren (President Andrew Jackson's handpicked successor) and U.S. Representative Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky. The Whig Party, which had only recently emerged and was primarily united by opposition to Jackson, was not yet sufficiently organized to agree on a single candidate. Hoping to compel a contingent election in the House of Representatives by denying the Democrats an electoral majority, the Whigs ran multiple candidates. Most Northern and border state Whigs supported the ticket led by former Senator William Henry Harrison of Ohio, while most Southern Whigs supported the ticket led by Senator Hugh Lawson White of Tennessee. Two other Whigs, Daniel Webster and Willie Person Mangum, carried Massachusetts and South Carolina respectively on single-state tickets. Despite facing multiple candidates, Van Buren won a majority of the electoral vote, and he won a majority of the popular vote in both the North and the South. Nonetheless, the Whig strategy came very close to success, as Van Buren won the decisive state of Pennsylvania by just over two points. As Virginia's electors voted for Van Buren but refused to vote for Johnson, Johnson fell one vote short of an electoral majority, compelling a contingent election for vice president. In that contingent election, the United States Senate elected Johnson over Harrison's running mate, Francis Granger. Van Buren was the third incumbent vice president elected president, which would not happen again until 1988, when George H. W. Bush was elected president. He is also the most recent Democrat elected to succeed an outgoing two-term Democratic president, and the only sitting Democratic vice president to win the presidency.https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109 Tom Murse December 16, 2020 Last Time Consecutive Democratic Presidents Were Elected ThoughtCo. You'd have to go back even further in history to find the most recent instance of a Democrat being elected to succeed a two-term president from the same party. The last time that happened was in 1836 when voters elected Martin Van Buren to follow Andrew Jackson. This also marks the last time that the sitting vice president was elected president after only serving for one term. Harrison finished second in both the popular and electoral vote, and his strong performance helped him win the Whig nomination in the 1840 presidential election. The election of 1836 was crucial in developing the Second Party System and a stable two-party system more generally. By the end of the election, nearly every independent faction had been absorbed by either the Democrats or the Whigs.Cole Donald B. Donald B. Cole Martin Van Buren and the American Political System 279 https://books.google.com/books?id=vqz_AwAAQBAJ&q=faction&pg=PA279 Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ 1984 0-691-04715-4 March 23, 2017 Nominations Democratic Party nomination 1835 Democratic National Convention 1836 Democratic Party ticket white Martin Van Buren white Richard Mentor Johnsonfor Presidentfor Vice President center|200x200px center|200x200px 8thVice President of the United States(1833–1837) U.S. Representativefrom Kentucky(1807–1819, 1829–1837) thumb|207x207px|Andrew Jackson, the incumbent president in 1836, whose second term expired on March 4, 1837 The 1835 Democratic National Convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland, from May 20 to 22, 1835. The early date of the convention was selected by President Andrew Jackson to prevent the formation of opposition to Martin Van Buren. Twenty-two states and two territories were represented at the convention with Alabama, Illinois, and South Carolina being unrepresented. The delegate amount per state varied from Maryland having 188 delegates to cast its ten votes while Tennessee's fifteen votes were cast by one delegate.1979 National Party Conventions, 1831-1976 Congressional Quarterly The convention saw the first credentials dispute in American history with two rival delegations from Pennsylvania claiming the state's votes. The issue was solved by seating both delegations and having them share the state's votes. An attempt to remove the two-thirds requirement for the selection of a candidate was passed by a vote of 231 to 210, but was later restored through a voice vote. Some Southerners opposed Johnson's nomination, due to his open relationship with an enslaved woman, whom he had regarded as his common-law wife. At the convention, Van Buren was nominated unanimously with all 265 delegates in favor, but the Virginia delegates supported Senator William Cabell Rives against Johnson. However, Rives got little support and Johnson was nominated with one more vote than the two-thirds requirement.Deskins Donald Richard Walton Hanes Puckett Sherman Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data 2010 University of Michigan Press 106–107 + Convention vote Presidential vote Vice presidential vote Martin Van Buren 265 Richard Mentor Johnson 178 William C. Rives 87 Whig Party nomination Whig presidential candidates 75px William Henry HarrisonFormer United States Minister to Gran Colombia 75px Daniel WebsterU.S. Senator from Massachusetts 75px Hugh Lawson WhiteU.S. Senator from Tennessee 75px Willie Person MangumU.S. Senator from North Carolina Whig vice-presidential candidates 75px Francis GrangerU.S. Representative from New York 75px John TylerU.S. Senator from Virginia The Whig Party emerged during the 1834 mid-term elections as the chief opposition to the Democratic Party. The party was formed from members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, disaffected Jacksonians, and small remnants of the Federalist Party (people whose last political activity was with them a decade before). Some Southerners who were angered by Jackson's opposition to states' rights, including Sen. John C. Calhoun and the Nullifiers, also temporarily joined the Whig coalition. Unlike the Democrats, the Whigs did not hold a national convention. Instead, state legislatures and state conventions nominated candidates, being the reason why so many candidates from the Whig party ran in the general election. Southern Nullifiers placed Tennessee Senator Hugh Lawson White into contention for the presidency in 1834 soon after his break with Jackson. White was a moderate on the states' rights issue, which made him acceptable in the South, but not in the North. The state legislatures of Alabama and Tennessee officially nominated White. The South Carolina state legislature nominated Senator Willie Person Mangum of North Carolina. By early 1835, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster was building support among Northern Whigs. Both Webster and White used Senate debates to establish their positions on the issues of the day, as newspapers carried the text of their speeches nationwide. The Pennsylvania legislature nominated popular former general William Henry Harrison, who had led American forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The Whigs hoped that Harrison's reputation as a military hero could win voter support. Harrison soon displaced Webster as the preferred candidate of Northern Whigs. State legislatures, particularly in larger states, also nominated various vice presidential candidates. Despite multiple candidates, there was only one Whig ticket in each state. The Whigs ended up with two main tickets: William Henry Harrison for president and Francis Granger for vice president in the North and Kentucky, and Hugh Lawson White for president and John Tyler for vice president in the middle and lower South. In Massachusetts, the ticket was Daniel Webster for president and Granger for vice president. In South Carolina, the ticket was Mangum for president and Tyler for vice president. In Maryland, it was Harrison and Tyler. Of the four Whig presidential candidates, only Harrison was on the ballot in enough states for it to be mathematically possible for him to win a majority in the Electoral College, and even then, it would have required him to win Van Buren's home state of New York. Anti-Masonic Party nomination After the negative views of Freemasonry among a large segment of the public began to wane in the mid-1830s, the Anti-Masonic Party began to disintegrate. Some of its members began moving to the Whig Party, which had a broader issue base than the Anti-Masons. The Whigs were also regarded as a better alternative to the Democrats. A state convention for the Anti-Masonic Party was held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from December 14 to 17, 1835, to choose presidential electors for the 1836 election. The convention unanimously nominated William Henry Harrison for president and Francis Granger for vice president. The Vermont state Anti-Masonic convention followed suit on February 24, 1836. Anti-Masonic leaders were unable to obtain assurance from Harrison that he was not a Mason, so they called a national convention. The second national Anti-Masonic nominating convention was held in Philadelphia on May 4, 1836. The meeting was divisive, but a majority of the delegates officially stated that the party was not sponsoring a national ticket for the presidential election of 1836 and proposed a meeting in 1837 to discuss the future of the party. Nullifier Party nomination The Nullifier Party had also begun to decline sharply since the previous election, after it became clear that the doctrine of nullification lacked sufficient support outside of the party's political base of South Carolina to ever make the Nullifiers more than a fringe party nationwide. Many party members began to drift towards the Democratic Party, but there was no question of the party endorsing Van Buren's bid for the presidency, as he and Calhoun were sworn enemies. Seeing little point in running their own ticket, Calhoun pushed the party into backing the White/Tyler ticket, as White had previously sided against Jackson during the Nullification Crisis. General election Campaign right|thumb|400px|Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Van Buren (Democratic), shades of orange are for Harrison (Whig), shades of green are for White (Whig), and shades of red are for Webster (Whig). thumb|Satire on the presidential campaign of 1836, portraying the contest as a boxing match between Democratic candidate Martin Van Buren and Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The artist clearly favors Harrison. In the aftermath of the Nat Turner's Rebellion and other events, slavery emerged as an increasingly prominent political issue. Calhoun attacked Van Buren, saying that he could not be trusted to protect Southern interests and accusing the sitting Vice President of affiliating with abolitionists. Van Buren defeated Harrison by a margin of 51.4% to 48.6% in the North, and he defeated White by a similar margin of 50.7% to 49.3% in the South. Disputes A dispute similar to that of Indiana in 1817 and Missouri in 1821 arose during the counting of the electoral votes. Michigan only became a state on January 26, 1837, and had cast its electoral votes for president before that date. Anticipating a challenge to the results, Congress resolved on February 4, 1837, that during the counting four days later the final tally would be read twice, once with Michigan and once without Michigan. The counting proceeded in accordance with the resolution. The dispute had no bearing on the final result: either way, Van Buren was elected, and either way no candidate had a majority for vice-president.United States Congress 24th Congress, 2nd Session, February 4 Senate Journal http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(sj02647)) August 20, 2006 1837 203–204 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150404001932/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28sj02647%29%29 April 4, 2015 mdy-all Results 22.4% of the voting age population and 56.5% of eligible voters participated in the election.Abramson Aldrich Rohde 1995 99 The Whigs' strategy narrowly failed to prevent Van Buren's victory in the Electoral College, though he earned a somewhat lower share of the popular vote and fewer electoral votes than Andrew Jackson had in either of the previous two elections. The key state in this election was ultimately Pennsylvania, which Van Buren won from Harrison with a narrow majority of just 4,222 votes or 2.4%. Had Harrison won the state, Van Buren would have been left eight votes short of an Electoral College majority despite receiving a majority (50.48%) in the popular vote and the Whig goal to force the election into the House of Representatives (per the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution) would have succeeded. Thus, the 11.8% difference between the margin in the tipping-point state of Pennsylvania and the margin in the national popular vote is the largest gap in American history. Van Buren won Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Rhode Island by only 2,569 votes total; had the leading Whig won each of those states, Van Buren would have been short of the necessary 148 electoral votes. In a contingent election, the House would have been required to choose between Van Buren, Harrison, and White as the three candidates with the most electoral votes. Jacksonians controlled enough state delegations (14 out of 26) and enough Senate seats (31 out of 52) to win both the presidency and the vice presidency in a contingent election. This was the last election in which the Democrats won Connecticut, Rhode Island, and North Carolina until 1852. This was also the only election where South Carolina voted for the Whigs, and the last time it voted against the Democrats until 1868. It was also the last time that a Democrat was elected to the U.S. presidency succeeding a Democrat who had served two terms as U.S. president.Murse Tom Last Time Consecutive Democratic Presidents Were Elected https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109 ThoughtCo. 6 July 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210603041426/https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109 3 June 2021 English 16 December 2020 File:Electoral College 1836.svg (a) Martin Van Buren Democratic New York 764,176 50.83% 170 William Henry Harrison Whig Ohio 550,816 36.63% 73 Hugh Lawson White Whig Tennessee 146,107 9.72% 26 Daniel Webster Whig Massachusetts 41,201 2.74% 14 Willie Person Mangum Whig North Carolina —(b) — 11 1,234 0.08% 1,503,534 294 148 Source (Popular Vote): 1836 July 27, 2005 Source (Electoral Vote): 1836 July 31, 2005 (a) The popular vote figures exclude South Carolina where the electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote. (b) Mangum received his electoral votes from South Carolina where the electors were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by popular vote. Popular vote 600px 410px Van Buren Democratic Party (US) 50.83 Harrison Whig Party (United States) 36.63 White Whig Party (United States) 9.72 Webster Whig Party (United States) 2.74 Others #777777 0.08 Electoral vote (president) 600px 410px Van Buren Democratic Party (US) 57.82 Harrison Whig Party (United States) 24.83 White Whig Party (United States) 8.84 Webster Whig Party (United States) 4.76 Mangum Whig Party (United States) 3.74 Electoral vote (vice president) 600px 410px Johnson Democratic Party (US) 50.00 Granger Whig Party (United States) 26.19 Tyler Whig Party (United States) 15.99 Smith Democratic Party (United States) 7.82 Richard Mentor Johnson Democratic Kentucky 147 Francis Granger Whig New York 77 John Tyler Whig Virginia 47 William Smith Democratic South Carolina 23 294 148 Source: 1836 July 31, 2005 Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836-1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57. States/districts won by Van Buren/JohnsonStates/districts won by a Whig candidate Martin Van BurenDemocratic William H. HarrisonWhigHugh L. WhiteWhigDaniel WebsterWhigWillie Person MangumWhigMarginTotal State electoralvotes Votes cast % electoralvotes Votes cast % electoralvotes Votes cast % electoralvotes Votes cast % electoralvotes electoralvotes#%# Alabama7 20,638 55.34 7 no ballots 16,658 44.66 0 no ballotsno ballots3,98010.6837,296AL Arkansas3 2,380 64.08 3 no ballots 1,334 35.92 0 no ballotsno ballots1,04628.163,714AR Connecticut8 19,294 50.65 8 18,799 49.35 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots4951.3038,093CT Delaware3 4,154 46.70 0 4,736 53.24 3 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -582 -6.548,895DE Georgia11 22,778 48.20 0 no ballots 24,481 51.80 11 no ballotsno ballots -1,703 -3.6047,259GA Illinois5 18,369 54.69 5 15,220 45.31 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots3,1499.3833,589IL Indiana9 32,478 44.03 0 41,281 55.97 9 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -8,803 -11.9473,759IN Kentucky15 33,229 47.41 0 36,861 52.59 15 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -3,632 -5.1870,090KY Louisiana5 3,842 51.74 5 no ballots 3,583 48.26 0 no ballotsno ballots2593.487,425LA Maine10 22,825 58.92 10 14,803 38.21 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots8,02220.7138,740ME Maryland10 22,267 46.27 0 25,852 53.73 10 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -3,585 -7.4648,119MD Massachusetts14 33,486 44.81 0 no ballots no ballots 41,201 55.13 14no ballots -7,715 -10.3274,687MA Michigan3 7,122 56.22 3 5,545 43.78 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots1,57712.4412,667MI Mississippi4 10,297 51.28 4 no ballots 9,782 48.72 0 no ballotsno ballots5152.5620,079MS Missouri4 10,995 59.98 4 no ballots 7,337 40.02 0 no ballotsno ballots3,65819.9618,332MO New Hampshire7 18,697 75.01 7 6,228 24.99 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots12,46950.0224,925NH New Jersey8 25,592 49.47 0 26,137 50.53 8 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -545 -1.0651,729NJ New York42 166,795 54.63 42 138,548 45.37 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots28,2479.26305,343NY North Carolina15 26,631 53.10 15 no ballots 23,521 46.90 0 no ballotsno ballots3,1106.2050,153NC Ohio21 96,238 47.56 0 104,958 51.87 21 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -8,720 -4.31202,333OH Pennsylvania30 91,457 51.18 30 87,235 48.82 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots4,2222.36178,692PA Rhode Island4 2,964 52.24 4 2,710 47.76 0 no ballots no ballotsno ballots2544.485,674RI South Carolina11 no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote 11 - -0SC Tennessee15 26,170 42.08 0 no ballots 36,027 57.92 15 no ballotsno ballots -9,857 -15.8462,197TN Vermont7 14,037 40.07 0 20,994 59.93 7 no ballots no ballotsno ballots -6,957 -19.8635,031VT Virginia23 30,556 56.64 23 no ballots 23,384 43.35 0 no ballotsno ballots7,17213.2953,945VA TOTALS:294 763,291 50.79 170 549,907 36.59 73 146,107 9.72 26 41,201 2.74 14 11213,38414.201,502,811US TO WIN:148 States that flipped from National Republican to Whig Delaware Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts States that flipped from National Republican to Democratic Connecticut Rhode Island States that flipped from Anti-Masonic to Whig Vermont States that flipped from Democratic to Whig Georgia Indiana New Jersey Ohio Tennessee States that flipped from Nullifer to Whig South Carolina Close states States where the margin of victory was under 5%: New Jersey 1.06% (545 votes) Connecticut 1.3% (495 votes) Pennsylvania 2.36% (4,222 votes) (tipping point state for a Van Buren victory) Mississippi 2.56% (515 votes) Louisiana 3.48% (259 votes) Georgia 3.6% (1,703 votes) Ohio 4.31% (8,720 votes) Rhode Island 4.48% (254 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10%: Kentucky 5.18% (3,632 votes) North Carolina 6.2% (3,110 votes) Delaware 6.54% (582 votes) Maryland 7.46% (3,585 votes) New York 9.26% (28,247 votes) (tipping point state for a Harrison victory) Illinois 9.38% (3,149 votes) Breakdown by ticket Candidate Total Martin Van BurenDemocratic William H. HarrisonWhig Hugh L. WhiteWhig Daniel WebsterWhig Willie P. MangumWhig Electoral Votes for President 294 170 73 26 14 11 For Vice President, Richard Mentor Johnson 147 147         For Vice President, Francis Granger 77   63   14   For Vice President, John Tyler 47   10 26   11 For Vice President, William Smith 23 23         1837 contingent election for vice president Virginia's 23 electors, who were all pledged to Van Buren and his running mate Richard Mentor Johnson, became faithless electors due to dissension related to Johnson's interracial relationship with a slaveBurke, Window To The Past and refused to vote for Johnson, instead casting their vice-presidential votes for former South Carolina senator William Smith. This left Johnson one electoral vote short of an Electoral College majority. Since no vice presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, for the only time in American history, the Senate decided the vice presidential race in a contingent election.Norton Mary Beth A People and a Nation: A History of the United States 2015 Wadsworth Publishing 344 10th On February 8, 1837, Johnson was elected on the first ballot by a vote of 33 to 16; the vote proceeded largely along party lines, albeit with three Whigs voting for Johnson, one Democrat voting for Granger, and three abstentions (Hugh L. White declined to vote out of respect for his own running-mate, John Tyler, while the two Nullifier Party senators refused to back either candidate).https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Senate_Elects_A_Vice_President.htm The Senate Elects a Vice President Office of the Secretary of the Senate Washington, D.C. August 11, 2019 1837 Contingent United States vice presidential election February 8, 1837Party Candidate Votes % Democratic Richard M. Johnson 33 33 52 2 Whig Francis Granger 16 16 52 2 3— Not voting 3 3 52 2 Total membership 52 100 Votes necessary 27 >50 Members voting for: Johnson GrangerDemocratic Party (United States) 90 Thomas H. Benton of Missouri Whig Party (United States) 90 John Black of Mississippi Democratic Party (United States) 90 Bedford Brown of North Carolina Democratic Party (United States) 90 James Buchanan of Pennsylvania Democratic Party (United States) 90 Alfred Cuthbert of Georgia Democratic Party (United States) 90 Judah Dana of Maine Democratic Party (United States) 90 William Lee D. Ewing of Illinois Democratic Party (United States) 90 William S. Fulton of Arkansas Democratic Party (United States) 90 Felix Grundy of Tennessee Whig Party (United States) 90 William Hendricks of Indiana Democratic Party (United States) 90 Henry Hubbard of New Hampshire Democratic Party (United States) 90 William R. King of Alabama Democratic Party (United States) 90 John P. King of Georgia Democratic Party (United States) 90 Lewis F. Linn of Missouri Democratic Party (United States) 90 Lucius Lyon of Michigan Democratic Party (United States) 90 Samuel McKean of Pennsylvania Whig Party (United States) 90 Gabriel Moore of Alabama Democratic Party (United States) 90 Thomas Morris of Ohio Democratic Party (United States) 90 Alexandre Mouton of Louisiana Democratic Party (United States) 90 Robert C. Nicholas of Louisiana Democratic Party (United States) 90 John M. Niles of Connecticut Democratic Party (United States) 90 John Norvell of Michigan Democratic Party (United States) 90 John Page of New Hampshire Democratic Party (United States) 90 Richard E. Parker of Virginia Democratic Party (United States) 90 William C. Rives of Virginia Democratic Party (United States) 90 John M. Robinson of Illinois Democratic Party (United States) 90 John Ruggles of Maine Democratic Party (United States) 90 Ambrose H. Sevier of Arkansas Democratic Party (United States) 90 Robert Strange of North Carolina Democratic Party (United States) 90 Nathaniel P. Tallmadge of New York Democratic Party (United States) 90 John Tipton of Indiana Democratic Party (United States) 90 Robert J. Walker of Mississippi Democratic Party (United States) 90 Silas Wright of New YorkWhig Party (United States) 90 Richard H. Bayard of Delaware Whig Party (United States) 90 Henry Clay of Kentucky Whig Party (United States) 90 Thomas Clayton of Delaware Whig Party (United States) 90 John J. Crittenden of Kentucky Whig Party (United States) 90 John Davis of Massachusetts Whig Party (United States) 90 Thomas Ewing of Ohio Whig Party (United States) 90 Joseph Kent of Maryland Whig Party (United States) 90 Nehemiah R. Knight of Rhode Island Whig Party (United States) 90 Samuel Prentiss of Vermont Whig Party (United States) 90 Asher Robbins of Rhode Island Whig Party (United States) 90 Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey Whig Party (United States) 90 John Selby Spence of Maryland Whig Party (United States) 90 Benjamin Swift of Vermont Whig Party (United States) 90 Gideon Tomlinson of Connecticut Democratic Party (United States) 90 Garret D. Wall of New Jersey Whig Party (United States) 90 Daniel Webster of Massachusetts Members not voting: #0ebfb0 Nullifier Party 90 John C. Calhoun of South Carolina#0ebfb0 Nullifier Party 90 William C. Preston of South CarolinaWhig Party (United States) 90 Hugh L. White of Tennessee Sources: Cong. Globe, 24th Cong., 2nd Sess. 166(1837) A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=003/llcg003.db&recNum=181 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. August 8, 201924th Congress Senate Vote 334 (1837) https://voteview.com/rollcall/RS0240334 voteview.com UCLA Department of Political Science and Social Science Computing Los Angeles, California August 8, 2019 Electoral college selection Each Elector appointed by state legislature South Carolina Each Elector chosen by voters statewide (all other States) See also Inauguration of Martin Van Buren History of the United States (1789–1849) 1836–37 United States House of Representatives elections 1836–37 United States Senate elections Notes References 30em Works cited Abramson Paul Aldrich John Rohde David Change and Continuity in the 1992 Elections CQ Press 1995 0871878399 Further reading Martin Van Buren#Further reading Bibliography of Martin Van Buren Brown, Thomas. "The miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an issue in the national election campaign of 1835-1836." Civil War History 39.1 (1993): 5–30. online Cheathem, Mark. R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) Ershkowitz, Herbert B. "The Election of 1836." in American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (Routledge, 2020) pp. 270–288. Hoffmann, William S. "The Election of 1836 in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 32.1 (1955): 31–51. online McCormick, Richard P. "Was There a" Whig Strategy" in 1836?." Journal of the Early Republic 4.1 (1984): 47–70. online Shade, William G. "'The Most Delicate and Exciting Topics': Martin Van Buren, Slavery, and the Election of 1836." Journal of the Early Republic 18.3 (1998): 459–484 online. Silbey, Joel H. "Election of 1836," in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Fred L. Israel, eds. History of American Presidential Elections (4 vols., 1971), I, 577–64, history plus primary sources Towers, Frank. "The Rise of the Whig Party." in A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (2013): 328–347. External links A Historical Analysis of the Electoral College The Green Papers http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Hx/ElectoralCollege.html March 20, 2005 Presidential Election of 1836: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress Election of 1836 in Counting the Votes https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041829/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1836/ March 4, 2016 Presidential election United States presidential election United States presidential election Category:Contingent elections in the United States Category:William Henry Harrison Category:Richard Mentor Johnson Category:Presidency of Andrew Jackson Category:Presidency of Martin Van Buren Category:John Tyler Category:Martin Van Buren Category:Daniel Webster