730 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



ANDREW JACKSON, 1828. Received in the electoral college 178 votes. His 

 opponent, John Quincy Adams, received 83 votes. The powers and limita- 

 tion of government, with the protective tariff, made up the issues during this 

 contest. At this time the parties were divided into the Democratic party, led 

 by Mr. Jackson, and the National-Republican party, headed by Mr. Clay. 



ANDREW JACKSON, 1832. Received in the electoral college 209 votes; 

 Henry Clay, 49; and William Wirt (Anti-Masonic), 7. The parties during 

 this campaign divided on questions of the tariff, State rights, internal im- 

 provements, and the United States bank. 



MARTIN VAN BUREN, 1836. Received in the electoral college 170 votes. 

 His opponents: Daniel Webster, 14; William H. Harrison, 73; Willie P. 

 Mangum, n; Hugh L. White, 26. Mr. Van Buren was the acknowledged 

 successor of President Jackson, and, with the opposition divided into factions, 

 was easily elected. About the same issues as in the preceding campaign were 

 discussed, but with much less bitterness. 



WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 1840. Received in the electoral college 234 

 votes. His opponent, Martin Van Buren, received 60 votes. The questions 

 following the money panic of 1837, and the sub-treasury, together with the 

 military record of General Harrison, formed the issues during this campaign. 

 President Harrison died within a month after his inauguration, and Vice- 

 President John Tyler became President instead, 



JAMES K. POLK, 1844. Received in the electoral college 170 votes. His 

 opponent, Henry Clay, received 105 votes. In this election, James G. Birney, 

 Abolition candidate, received about 65,000 votes. During this campaign the 

 issues between the Whigs and Democrats were, the reoccupation of Oregon, 

 the annexation of Texas, currency, and a tariff for revenue. 



ZACHARY TAYLOR, 1848. Received in the electoral college 163 votes. His 

 opponent, Lewis Cass, received 127 votes. The Free Soil party nominated 

 Martin Van Buren, who received about 300,000 votes. The war with Mexico, 

 non-interference with slavery, tariff, and the Missouri compromise furnished 

 the political issues for this contest. General Taylor died in July following his 

 inauguration, and Millard Fillmore became President. 



FRANKLIN PIERCE, 1852. Received in the electoral college 251 votes. His 

 opponent, General Winfield Scott, received 42 votes. The Anti-Slavery 

 party put in nomination John P. Hale, who received about 155,000 votes. 

 The questions entering into this campaign were those of a strict construction 

 of the Constitution, and the fugitive slave law. State rights and the question 

 of slavery assumed prominence in the discussions before the people. 



JAMES BUCHANAN, 1856. Received in the electoral college 174 votes. His 

 opponent, John C. Fremont, received 114 votes. The American or Know 

 Nothing party nominated Millard Fillmore, and gave him 8 electoral votes. 

 Mr. Buchanan represented the Democratic party, while Mr. Fremont headed 

 the new Republican party. Slavery in the Territories was the all-absorbing 

 issue. 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1860. Received in the electoral college 180 votes. His 

 opponents: John C. Breckenridge, 72 ; Stephen A. Douglas, 12; and John 



