The 1840 United States presidential election was the 14th presidential election, held from Friday, October 30 to Wednesday, December 2, 1840. Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories in presidential elections. Harrison was succeeded by John Tyler, who unexpectedly proved not to be a Whig.
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The 1840 United States presidential election was the 14th presidential election, held from Friday, October 30 to Wednesday, December 2, 1840. Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories in presidential elections. The 67-year-old Harrison, the oldest U.S. president elected until Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election, died a little more than a month after inauguration. Harrison was succeeded by John Tyler, who unexpectedly proved not to be a Whig. This is also one of only two elections where a major party did not have a vice-presidential candidate on their ticket on Election Day. The third Anti-Masonic Party National Convention was held in Philadelphia on November 13–14, 1838. By this time, the party had been supplanted by the Whig party. The delegates voted unanimously to nominate William Henry. Harrison for president and Daniel Webster for vice president. However, the third party agreed to maintain the name C.W. C. Webster for president. The Whig National Convention saw 1836 nominee William.
Henry Harrison defeat former Secretary of State Henry Clay and General Winfield Scott. The convention nominated former Senator John Tyler from Virginia for vicePresident. The two would go on to win the 1840 presidential election by defeating Van Buran. The Democrats were unable to agree on an alternative running mate at the convention, and adjourned without having nominated one. As of 2020, this is the only time since the passage of the 12th Amendment in 1804 that aMajor party has failed to do so. The Democratic Party refused to re-nominate the incumbent vice- president, Richard M. Johnson, but controversial Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was not re- Nominated. In the college, the votes were divided among Johnson, Littleton Wewell, Tewell K. K. Polk and James Polk. After the election, the public began to wane among a large segment of the Freemasonry Party. In 1837, the Anti-masonic Party began to disintegrate and began to move to one by one to the Whigs. The party leaders met in September 1837 in Washington, D.C.
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