With all of those important historical implications, it’s unsurprising that we overlook the most basic element of the election of 1800 — it took a really, really long time to resolve.

The art, indeed, may be said to have been introduced in 1796 to prevent his election to the Presidency; but it was in 1800 that it was clearly developed into a distinct species of falsehood.

What Really Happened With the Political Mayhem of the Election of 1800? Two titans of the era went head-to-head in a heated race for the presidency. The stakes were high.

Similar stalemates have occurred twice in US history, in 1800 and 1824. In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans defeated the incumbent Federalist President John Adams.

Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond Examiner to print anti-Federalist articles ...

While President John Adams crushed it quickly and decisively, his actions cost him dearly in the pivotal election of 1800 — and may have led to the demise of the nation’s first organized ...