The 1816 United States presidential election was the eighth quadrennial presidential election. It was the first election following the end of the War of 1812. Democratic-Republican candidate James Monroe defeated Federalist Rufus King. Monroe easily won the Electoral College, carrying 16 of the 19 states.
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The 1816 United States presidential election was the eighth quadrennial presidential election. It was the first election following the end of the War of 1812. Democratic-Republican candidate James Monroe defeated Federalist Rufus King. Monroe easily won the Electoral College, carrying 16 of the 19 states. The Federalists did not formally nominate a ticket, but Senator King of New York emerged as the de facto Federalist candidate. The House and Senate met in joint session to count the electoral votes for President and Vice President. On February 12, 1817, the House and House of Representatives approved a joint resolution recognizing the statehood of Indiana, which had not been a state at the time of the election. The resolution was signed by President James Madison, President Thomas Jefferson, and Governor Daniel Tompkins.
The vote was held on November 1, 1816, and the results were announced on December 4, 18 16. The election was also the last in which the Federalist Party fielded a presidential candidate, as President Madison chose to retire after serving two terms. The Democratic-Republicans held a congressional nominating caucus in March 1816. Monroe defeated Secretary of War William H. Crawford for the nomination by a vote of 65 to 54, while Tompkin defeated Simon Snyder by a wider margin of 85 votes to 30. The last state to be counted, Indiana, objected to the counting of Indiana’s votes, saying that the state had already joined the Union by forming a state government and was not a state of Indiana.
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