What happened in the presidential election of 1800?
The Presidential election of 1800 was between Thomas Jefferson vice President and the President John Adams. Jefferson defeated Adams but ended up tied with Arron Burr in the Electoral College Vote, which was then thrown into the House or Representatives for a tie-breaker vote. Under the United States Constitution, each Presidential elector cast two votes, without distinction as to which was for President or Vice President. The recipient of a majority of votes was elected President, while the Vice Presidency went to the recipient of the second greatest number of votes. The Federalists therefore had one of their electors vote for John Jay rather than for Vice Presidential candidate Pinckney. The Democratic-Republicans had a similar plan to have one of their electors cast a vote for another candidate instead of Burr, but, by a misadventure, failed to execute it. In fact their plan was almost reversed by a faithless elector in New York casting both of his votes for Burr, which would have b
