The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced the procedure in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which
The Twelfth Amendment in the National Archives
Certificate for the electoral vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler for the State of Louisiana
Aaron Burr
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Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A m
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
…his vice president. There was also the danger of two or more candidates tying in the electoral college. This was the case in 1800 when Jefferson and Aaron Burr, though both Anti-Federalist, were indeed tied in the college. This spurred legislators to amend the presidential election process to require each…
Portrait by John Vanderlyn, c. 1803
Burr's maternal grandfather Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist theologian
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, a 1786 portrait by John Trumbull depicting the Battle of Quebec in 1775
A portrait of Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost, who Burr married in 1782, by Henry Benbridge