Contingent election
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In the United States, a contingent election is used to elect the president or vice president if no candidate receives a majority in the Electoral College. A presidential contingent election is decided
Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800
John Vanderlyn Official Portrait of Vice President Aaron Burr
John Quincy Adams 1858 crop
Andrew Jackson
William H. Crawford
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William Harris Crawford was an American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He later ran for U.S. president in the 1824 election.
Portrait, c. 1823
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Crawford as Secretary of the Treasury
Crawford depicted on United States fractional currency