1789 Washington chosen unanimously
1792 Washington Chosen unanimously
issues: Pinckney's treaty, Farewell, National Bank, Naturalization law, Neutrality proclamation
1796 Adams chosen over Jefferson: Jefferson now VP although political rival
Camp 1st real campaign of the new nation: Adams=snobby New Englander, Jefferson=states
issues: XYZ affair, Alien and Sedition, Midnight judges, war between France and Britain
1800 Jefferson chosen with Aaron Burr over Adams
Camp Jefferson=no God, States vs. Federalists, New York goes Republican
1804 Jefferson over Pinckney
Camp Federalists and New England against the States: Essex Junto thoughts of secession in NE
issues: 12th amendment, Tripolitan War, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo, abolition of slave trade
establishes the executive privelage claim in Burr Conspiracy Trials
1808 Madison with Clinton as VP over Pinckney
Camp Embargo hasn't worked, Federalists revitalized, Republicans somewhat split but back madison
1812 Madison over Clinton
Camp War of 1812 dominates campaign, Clinton criticizes war effort, New England opposes Madison
issues:Non intercourse Act, Macon's Bill no 2, War of 1812, Hartford Convention, 2nd BUS
Vetoed Bill for internal improvements as his last act in office
1816 Monroe over Rufus King
Camp none: Monroe only needed to not screw up campaign: Federalists more or less dead
1820 Monroe wins over no one
issues: 1st Seminole War, Rush-Bagot, Adams-Onis, Panic of 1819, Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine, Era of Good Feelings
Camp no one else runs: Monroe receives all but one electoral vote
1824 JQ Adams over Jackson, Clay, Crawford: "pimp to the czar of Russia"
Camp sectional Rivalries and candidates personalities
Issues: wanted internal improvements, tariff of abominations, no Mandate=no support
1828 Jackson (Democrat) over Clay (National Republican)
Camp focused on personalities: wealthy vs. common man, murderer vs. corrupt bargain
1832 Jackson with JC Calhoun over Clay
Camp main issue was the Bank, Anti Masonic Party also ran
issues: kitchen cabinet, spoils system, rotation in office, Eaton Affair, tariffs 1828, 1832, nullification, BUS,
Maysville Road veto, Worcester v. Georgia, Indian Removal Act of 1830, cabinet crisis
1836 Martin Van Buren (Democrat) defeats William Henry Harrison (Whig)
Camp Whigs nominate a number of favorite sons, Van Buren wants to carry on Jackson's work, Van Buren support
more organized than Harrison
Issues: panic of 1837, Caroline incident, aroostook War, Texas question, 2nd Seminole War,
1840 Harrison (Whig) and Tyler over Van Buren (Democrat)
Camp 1st modern campaign with songs, slogans; Hard Cider and Log Cabin election, Tippecanoe and Tyler too!
issues: 1st presidential death, Tyler vetoes Whig attempt at a bank makes his party mad, cabinet resigns,
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Annexation of Texas
1844 James K Polk (Democrat) over Henry Clay (Whig)
Camp Clay opposed annexation of Texas, 3rd party candidate: Liberty Party takes votes from Clay
issues: Mexican War, spot resolutions, Independent treasury Act, Oregon
1848 Zachary Taylor (Whig) over Lewis Cass (Democrat)and Van Buren (free soil)
Camp slavery and the Wilmot Proviso, slavery not discussed by Taylor who was a slave holder
issues: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (neutral canal), Compromise of 1850, opposed Southern benefits to treaty
Millard Fillmore takes over after deathand supports Compromise of 1850, Matthew Perry, slavery big issue of the day
1852 Franklin Pierce (Democrat) and William Rufus King (Fabulous) over Winfield Scott (Whig)
Camp Whigs divided over slavery issue, Democrats united Behind Pierce
Issues: Gadsden Purchase, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Ostend Manifesto, William Walker in Nicaragua
1856 James Buchanan (Democrat) over Fremont (Republican)
Camp Republican victory would lead to civil war because of anti slavery
issues: Dred Scott decision, Bleeding Kansas, Panic of 1857, secession after Lincoln's election in 1860
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Republican) over Stephen Douglas
Camp Democratic party divided between north and south
1864 Lincoln (Republican) over George McClellan (Democrat)
Camp War goals: Lincoln preserve Union, McClellan wants armistice: war starts to go well for North, Democrats lose
issues: the Civil War (Duh), Homestead Act, Morrill Act, Lincoln's assassination: Andrew Johnson takes over
Johnson: Reconstruction, Wade Davis, impeachment, Alaska Purchase, 13th amendment ratified
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (Rep) over Seymour (Dem)
Camp Let us have peace, impact of black vote for Grant, Bloody shirt
1872 Grant (Rep) over Greeley (liberal republican, Democrat)
Camp corruption of Grant's administration, Business and former slaves support Grant
issues: Black Friday, Whiskey Ring, Credit Mobilier, Treaty of Washington (CSS Alabama), Force Bill, KKK, end of
Freedmen's bureau, 15th amendment
1876 Hayes (Rep and 48% of popular vote) over Tilden (Dem and 51% of the popular vote)
Camp bloody shirt vs. corruption: people voting for party as much as candidate, Colorado votes for Hayes
Camp electoral commission appointed to investigate election returns: Hayes wins election
Issues: compromise of 1877, Bland Allison Act, Renewal of Grant's specie act, beginnings of Anti Chinese
1880 Garfield and Chester A Arthur(Rep) over Hancock (Dem)
Camp Republicans support a high tariff, Democrats support a lower one: Garfield doesn't need to do much
Camp Garfield strikes a deal with Roscoe Conkling to confer with him about patronage although he was for reform
issues: assassination by Charles Guiteau who wanted a government job, Chester Arthur who had been a stalwart
has a change of heart and signs the Pendleton Civil Service Act, Chinese Exclusion Act,
1884 Grover Cleveland (Dem) over James G. Blaine (Rep)
Camp Cleveland's illegitimate child vs. claims that Blaine stole money while in Congress, "Off to the white house, ha ha ha"
Issues: pension, Interstate Commerce Act, Dawes Severalty Act, Hatch Act
1888 Benjamin Harrison (Rep) over Cleveland
Camp Cleveland gets popular vote but loses home state of NY, Republicans want high tariff, no mud-slinging
issues: Sherman anti-Trust, Sherman silver purchase Act, McKinley Tariff, more support for veterans
1892 Cleveland (Dem) over Harrison (Rep)
Camp Tariff again dominates election
issues: Hawaii, Panic of 1893, Wilson-Gorman Act, Pullman strike, Venezuela Boundary Dispute
1896 McKinley (Rep) over Bryan (Dem, Populist)
Camp Can you say silver?
1900 McKinley with TR (Rep) over Bryan (Dem)
Camp gold discovered which inflates currency, economy doing well: economy not issue; issue is now imperialism
Issues: Annexation of Hawaii, Spanish American War, open door policy, boxer rebellion
1904 TR (Rep) over Parker (Dem)
Camp both agreed on many issues: campaign focused on personalities of the two
issues: Panama, Roosevelt Corollary, Big Stick diplomacy, Russo Japnese War, Anti Trust policy, Coal Strike,
Meat Inspection Act, Conservation, Panic of 1907, Gentleman's agreement
1908 Taft (Rep) over Bryan (Dem)
Camp TR chose Taft as his successor, Bryan again (enough already)
issues: Payne-Aldrich tariff, Mann-Elkins Act, dollar diplomacy,antitrust policy, Ballinger-Pinchot affair
1912 Wilson (Dem) over Taft (Rep) and TR (Progressives)
Camp Wilson wants to end monopoly, allow unions, small business, banking reform;
1916 Wilson (Dem) over Charles Evans Hughes (Rep)
Camp Wilson kept us out of war
issues: underwood tariff, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Keating Owen Act (child labor)
Federal Trade Commission, Adamson Act, Mexico, World War I, Zimmerman, Lusitania, 17th, 19th Amendments
1920 Harding and Coolidge (Rep) over Cox (Dem)
League of Nations vs. back to business and normalcy
Teapot Dome, Washington Conference, pardon of Debs, Ohio Gang, Fordney McCumber Tariff, Em Quota Act
1924 Coolidge over Davis (Dem) and La Follette (Progressives)
Keep cool with Coolidge, Economy is doing well don't mess with it
Immigration Act of 1924, Tax Reduction, Bonus Bill for a pension in 20 years, Kellogg Briand Pact
1928 Hoover (Dem) over Al Smith (Dem)
economy still good, Smith was a Catholic and ties to Tammany Hall opposed prohibition
issues: depression maybe, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Prohibition, Bonus Army,
1932 FDR (Dem) over Hoover
depression
issues: depression, banking crisis, 21st amendment
1936 FDR over Landon (Rep)
Methods of fighting depression
issues: court packing plan, Good Neighbor policy
1940 FDR over Willkie (Rep)
3rd term and Hitler
1944 FDR and Truman over Dewey (Rep)
FDR argues to not change leadership during War, Dewey talks of tired old men
1948 Truman (Dem) defeats Dewey (Rep)
split in the Democratic party: Dixiecrats and Strom Thurmond
issues: Nuremburg Trials, atomic bomb, Marshall Plan, Israel, United Nations,Korean War, McCarthyism,
Taft-Hartley Act, Fair Deal
1952 Eisenhower (Rep) over Adlai Stevenson (Dem)
I like Ike, Ike promises to go to Korea to end War, Communism, Checkers
Issues: Eisenhower Doctrine, Little Rock 9, fall of McCarthy, Interstate Highway Act
1956 Eisenhower over Stevenson (Again)
yep, they still like him; Suez Crisis calls for experience, no change needed with the country's health
1960 Kennedy and LBJ (Dem) over Nixon (Rep)
how about television? Both fought communism, Kennedy's Catholicism, Economy, Castro
issues: Inaugural address, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, voluntary wage prices for steel, Vietnam, Berlin,
Cuban Missile crisis, Bay of Pigs, Civil Rights, Space Program
1964 Johnson (Dem) over Goldwater (Rep)
Daisy Commercial, Goldwater starts Conservative movement, In your heart you know he's right vs. In your gut you
know he might
issues: Vietnam anyone, Tet offensive, War on poverty, Voting Rights Act, Civil rights act of 64, environmental,
medicare, medicaid, Great Society, Gulf of Tonkin
1968 Nixon (Rep) over Humphrey (Dem) and Wallace (American Independent)
secret plan to end Vietnam, Chicago convention, Democratic Party divided
1972 Nixon over McGovern (Dem)
Landslide victory for Nixon, McGovern painted as radical left wing Democrat
issues: Vietnam War, SALT, Man on the moon, Watergate, EPA established, China policy, resignation
Ford Pardons Nixon, Clemency to draft evaders, SE Asia begins to fall, Mayaguez,
1976 Carter (Dem) over Ford
an honest Washington outsider vs. the guy that pardoned Nixon
issues: 3 mile island, Panama Canal, Human Rights, Camp David, Afghanistan, Hostages in Iran, Shah, Carter Doctrine
1980 Reagan (Rep) over Carter
Inflation, gas shortages, Iran Hostage Crisis: Things look bad for the Democrats
1984 Reagan over Mondale (Dem) and 1st female vp candidate Geraldine Ferraro
assassination attempt, Reaganomics, Iran Contra affair, Terrorist attacks: Beirut, Pan am flight 103
Grenada, S. Africa, relations with Soviet Union, Libya, Iran, N. Korea, Cuba, and Nicarague as sponsors of terror
1988 Bush (Rep) over Dukakis (Dem)
Read my lips no new taxes, Willie Horton Ad
issues: Iraq War, Economy, puking on the Prime Minister of Japan, Invasion of Panama, collapse of Communism,
oil spill: Exxon Valdez
1992 Clinton (Dem) over Bush (Rep) and Perot (ind)
Read my lips no new taxes (oops), Clinton plays sax on Arsenio, appeals to soccer moms, impact of Perot
1996 Clinton over Dole (Rep)
Clinton's character, possible impeachment
issues: Clinton 2nd pres to be impeached, economic growth, Health care reform fails, haiti, Bosnia,
government shut down of 1996 over debate on finance