1812 United States presidential election
The 1812 United States presidential election was the seventh quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 30, 1812, to Wednesday, December 2, 1812. Taking place in the shadow of the War of 1812, incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison defeated DeWitt Clinton, the Lieutenant Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City, who drew support from dissident Democratic-Republicans in the North as well as Federalists. It was the first presidential election to be held during a major war involving the United States.
Image: James Madison(cropped)(c)
Image: De Witt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale
President James Madison
Mayor and Lt. Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York
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