Presidential elections were held in the United States from October 30 to December 2, 1812. In the shadow of the War of 1812, incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison narrowly defeated D
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President James Madison
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Elbridge Gerry
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, who as a member of the Second Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles o
1812 United States presidential election
…policy. Eighty-two of the delegates voted to give the presidential nomination to Madison while John Langdon won the vice-presidential nomination against Elbridge Gerry by a vote of sixty-four to sixteen. However, Langdon declined the nomination citing his age and it was instead given to Gerry after another vote was…
Posthumous portrait, c. 1861
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John Adams, who held Gerry in high regard, 1793, by John Trumbull
Gerry supported the federalist economic policies of Alexander Hamilton