In 1794, when he was 26-years-old, President George Washington appointed him as the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. Years ...

Jackson both won the popular vote and got the most votes in the electoral college, but lost the election anyway.

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

Political operatives like to say they only work when you are behind, ahead or even – in other words, all the time. Voters ...

Except in the states of Maine and Nebraska, if a candidate receives the majority of the votes from the people of a state then the candidate will receive all electoral votes of that state. The ...

Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is no stranger to voter suppression in Georgia and she sees a ...

Boston experienced election fever 184 years ago when the Whig Convention came to town. The Bishop of Boston Benedict Joseph Fenwick was in attendance and wrote about the hubbub brought by thousands of ...

Five U.S. presidents, including two since 2000, have won the White House despite losing the popular vote. A plan to ensure ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

In the 1800 election, Thomas ]Jefferson’s ... Soon after the disputed 1824 balloting that ushered John Quincy Adams into the White House instead of the popular vote winner Andrew Jackson ...

But it was really the work of the man who was then Secretary of State and later President—John Quincy ... election went to the House of Representatives and Clay (the Speaker) secured Adams ...