which was the governmental body that chose the presidential electors before andrew jackson?
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The House of Representatives
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People are elected to the Electoral College by popular vote in that state. The candidate who wins the most votes in a state wins all of the electoral college vote. However, in Maine and Nebraska, the candidate who wins the most votes in a Congressional District has a person elected to the electoral college for that district. Very occasionally, a candidate who wins the most votes in the US is defeated by a candidate with more electoral college votes as happened in 2000. The last occurrence of this before 2000 was in the 19th century.\n\nOccasionally, there is an example of a faithless voter in the electoral college where a person votes for another person other than the candidate he was elected to represent. This has never decided an election.\n\nThere has also been an example where the Electoral College couldn't make a decision and the House of Representatives elected the President. In 1824, no candidate received a majority of votes and the Congress selected John Quincy Adams even though Andrew Jackson received the most votes. \n\nI have attached some sources. There are plenty of books and journal articles on this topic as well.
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Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States are elected every four years indirectly through the United States Electoral College. They are the only nationally-elected offices in the United States, since executive officers and judges are appointed, United States Senators are elected at the state level, and United States Representatives are elected at the district level.\n\nOn election day, the voting public selects its preferred candidate, usually by voting for a slate of electors put forward by the candidate's party. The ballots for each voting citizen typically has the names of the candidates for President and Vice President (running together on a ticket), and votes for those individuals translate at the state level into votes for the electors chosen from their respective parties. Although State Legislatures have the constitutional power to appoint slates of electors, all fifty states have established popular election of presidential electors. In December, following the general election, Electors gather at their respective State capitals to cast their ballots, which are then transmitted to Congress under the care of the sitting Vice President of the United States. Originally, under Article 2, the electors cast two votes for the office of President, the individual with the most votes becoming President, the runner up becoming Vice President. This changed with the 12th amendment, with each elector casting one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. The ballots are counted and certified in January before both houses of Congress. Should a candidate for either President or Vice President fail to achieve a majority of votes, the United States House of Representatives (voting by state) chooses the next president from among the candidates while the United States Senate (voting normally) selects the vice president.
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Andrew Johnson.  He was never kicked out as the Senate didn't convict him.  50 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Johnson was right.  Johnson was the President after Lincoln's assassination.  Basically, he fired the Sec. of War that Lincoln hired.  The Republicans didn't want him to do that b/c he was a Democrat.
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most like Bush and Gore \n\nwas the election Rutherford B. Hayes..... the election was decided in the house....1876\nhe was later called RutherFraud
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Question 1: The 13 colonial governments took a variety of forms. By 1775, eight of the original colonies had royal governors, who were appointed by the king. Three- Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Delaware were under proprietors who themselves chose the governors. And two- Connecticut and Rhonde Island elected their own governors under self-governoring charters. Practically every colony utilized a two-house legislative body. The upper bosy,or council was normally appointed by the crown in the royal colonies. The lower house, as the popular branch was elected by the people, or rather those who owned enough property to qualify as voters.  (I will get back with you on the other answers)
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Under the current system, the US Constitution, the first president was George Washington. There was a government in place before that known as the Articles of Confederation. Under that system, the president was not the chief executive that he is today. Under the Articles of Confederation the president's full title was "President of the United States in Congress Assembled." The first person to hold that title was Samuel Huntington. Before that, we had the First Continental Congress, which did have a president as well. The first president of the First Contention Congress was Peyton Randolph. He was also the first president of the Second Contention Congress. The Continental Congress(es) were not intended to be permanent, they were a sort of revolutionary government. There is some confusion about all of this and some people argue that John Hanson was the first President of The United States. But I do not have the time to go into why that is so; He was the 3rd president under the Articles of Confederation.
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The Electorial College is who really votes for the President of the United States. This is not a democracy, this is a republic and as such we elect people to make our choices for us. This holds true with the Electorial College. Each state elects people to send to the Electorial College to vote for the President. At times the representatives we send vote in a way that they were not sent to vote. Twice in the history of the United States the popular vote and the Electorial College have differed in who they elected to the Presidency. With over 300 million people, you would not think that one vote would count, but now we know --- just look at florida 2000.
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Actually, this is not George Washington. He was the first under the current constitution. However, there were 7 before him under the Articles of Confederation (they had the title: President of the United States in Congress Assembled). The first was John Hanson from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. Under the articles, these guys had very little power, so we don't hear much about them.
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There have been two that I know of:\n\nAndrew Johnson was voted into the Senate in 1874, 6 years after he completed Abraham Lincoln's term of office, and John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, two years after being defeated in his bid for reelection to the Presidency.
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Samuel Huntington of Connecticut was the first true President although he was president under the articles of confederation. george washington is the first president under the constitution. Huntington was the first to hold the title President of the United States and congress assembled. He previously held the title of President of the continental congress until the articles or confederation were ratified when he adopted the new title and the united states actually adopted a form of government.
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The answer depends on how you define "President."\n\nGeorge Washington was the first President of the United States under the current US Constitution.  However, the constitution was not ratified until 1789.  \n\nPrior to the constitution, the US was run under The Articles of Confederation from 1781-1789.  The first president under the Articles of Confederation was Samuel Huntington.\n\nThe US won its independence in 1781.  However, independence was declared in 1776.  At the time, the US was run by the Continental Congress.  Its presiding officer was John Hancock.\n\nThe attached article gives a complete list of presidents prior to the constitution.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure.  Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.
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In 1876, the Republican candidate (Hayes) won the electoral college while narrowly losing the popular vote.\n\nIn 2000, the Republican candidate (Bush jr) won the electoral college while narrowly losing the popular vote.\n\nIn 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives, despite the fact that Andrew Jackson received the most popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election.  There was no majority at the Electoral College and the election was thrown to the House.  A deal between Adams and Henry Clay gave the election to Adams, and Clay was appointed Secretary of State.
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Oops, I looked it up.\n\nAn electoral college is a set of electors who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect someone to a particular office. Often these electors represent a different organization or entity with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. Many times, though, the electors are simply important persons whose wisdom, it is hoped, would provide a better choice than a larger body.
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Andrew Johnson. He was Lincoln's Vice-President and became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was born in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee. He was a member of House of Representatives from Tennessee and stayed in that post after Tennessee's succession. He was made military governor of Tennessee in 1862 and Lincoln nominated him as Vice President despite the fact that he was a Southern Democrat.\n\nHe had many fights with the socalled Radical Republicans over reconstruction. They overrode hos veto on the Civil Rights Act establishing blacks as Citizens and forbidding discrimination. Congress also passed the 14th Amendment establishing equal rights against Johnson's opposition. They passed laws Governing reconstruction and impeached Johnson for sacking the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton with him surviving by a vote. Johnson was reelected as Senator for Tennessee in 1875 and died a few months later.
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The 2nd President of the United States was John Adams, President from 1797 to 1801