Even before the War of 1812 was over, President James Madison had announced that he would honor the 2 term tradition and not run for POTUS in 1816.  In the […]

62-year-old President James Madison would run for re-election in 1812. It wasn’t like he didn’t face obstacles in his way though. The British in recent years had continued to interfere […]

Thomas Jefferson’s second term did not go as well as his first term. That would become a trend that a lot of future POTUS would suffer from. Hostilities between France […]

The 1804 Presidential Election was President Thomas Jefferson vs Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. President Jefferson was riding high. Things were going well in the United States and Jefferson’s popularity made […]

The 1800 Presidential Election is the first one that we can look back on and recognize as being a lot like the ones that are held in modern times. In […]