A Series of Delays in the 19th Century While the election of 1800 offers an extreme example ... In 1845, Congress passed a bill establishing that the presidential elections would take place ...

A contingent election determined the winner of the presidential election on two occasions in U.S. history - 1800 and 1824. In ...

In the early 1800s, Washington, D.C., was in its early stages of development, and the political climate at the time was rough ...