1808 United States presidential election
The 1808 United States presidential election was the sixth quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 4, to Wednesday, December 7, 1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.
1808 United States presidential election
Thomas Jefferson, the incumbent president in 1808, whose second term expired on March 4, 1809
Secretary of State James Madison from Virginia
Former U.S. Ambassador James Monroe from Virginia
Democratic-Republican Party
The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party, and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free markets, free trade, agrarianism, and sympathy with the French Revolution. The party became increasingly dominant after the 1800 elections as the opposing Federalist Party collapsed.
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States (1801–1809)
James Madison, 4th president of the United States (1809–1817)
Albert Gallatin served as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
Henry Clay