ELECTION FOR THE TENTH TERM, COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1825, AND TERMINATING MARCH 3, 1829. Neither candidate for the Presidency having received a majority of the electoral votes, it devolved upon the House of Representatives to choose a President from the three highest on the list of those voted for, which three were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William H. Crawford. Twenty-four tellers (one member from each state) were appointed, who, after examining the ballots, announced that the votes of thirteen states had been given for John Quincy Adams; the votes of seven states for Andrew Jackson; and the votes of four states for William H. Crawford. The Speaker then declared that John Quincy Adams, having received a majority of the votes of all the states, was duly elected President of the United States for four years, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1825; on which day Mr. Adams took the oath of office, and entered upon his duties. John C. Calhoun, having been elected Vice-President, took the oath of office, and attended in the Senate, March 4, 1825. No. of Electors from each State. ELECTION FOR THE ELEVENTH TERM, COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1829, AND TERMINATING MARCH 3, 1833. STATES. PRESID'T. VICE-PRESIDENT Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. John Quincy Adams, of Pennsylvania. William Smith, of South Carolina. Andrew Jackson took the oath of office, as President, and entered upon his duties March 4, 1829. John C. Calhoun took the oath of office, as Vice-President, and presided in the Senate March 4, 1829. A series of unfortunate political and social occurrences soon led to a rupture of that cordiality which had formerly existed between these two distinguished individuals, the consequences of which were peculiarly disastrous to the political aspirations of Mr. Calhoun, who was never afterwards regarded with much favor beyond the immediate limits of his own state. No. of Electors from each State. ELECTION FOR THE TWELFTH TERM, COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1833, AND TERMINATING MARCH 3, 1837. Andrew Jackson, re-elected President, took the oath of office, and continued his duties. March 4, 1833. Martin Van Buren, having been elected Vice-President, took the oath of office, and attended in the Senate, March 4, 1833. Early in June, 1833, the President left Washington on a tour through the Northern states, and was every where received with an enthusiasm that evinced the cordial approval of his administration by the people. One of his first measures, on returning to the seat of government, was the removal of the public moneys from the United States Bank, for which act he encountered the most virulent hostility of a small majority of the Senate, who passed resolutions censuring his course. But this injustice has not been perpetuated; for on the 16th of January, 1837, these partisan resolutions were expunged from the records by order of a handsome majority. No. of Electors from each State. ELECTION FOR THE THIRTEENTH TERM, COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1837, AND TERMINATING. MARCH 3, 1841. Martin Van Buren, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon his duties, March 4, 1837. Richard M. Johnson, elected Vice-President, took the oath of office, and attended in the Senate, March 4, 1837. Urged by the unprecedented financial embarrassments which were experienced in every branch of industry, and especially by the mercantile class, Mr. Van Buren's first measure was to convene a special meeting of Congress early in September, '37, which continued in session forty days, but accomplished very little. A bill authorizing the issue. of $10,000,000 in treasury notes was passed; but the Independent Treasury bill (the great financial measure of the administration) was then rejected, although afterwards (in 1840) adopted. * Elected by the Senate. No. of Electors from each State. ELECTION FOR THE FOURTEENTH TERM, COMMENCING MARCH 4, 1841, AND TERMINATING MARCH 3, 1845. STATES. PRESID❜T. VICE-PRESIDENT. ....... 15 23 22 15 11 11 William H. Harrison, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon his duties, March 4, 1841. John Tyler, elected Vice-President, took the oath of office, and attended in the Senate, March 4, 1841. Soon after his inauguration, President Harrison issued a proclamation, convening Congress for an extra session on the 31st of May, to consider "sundry weighty and important matters, chiefly growing out of the state of the revenue and finances of the country.' But he did 'not live to submit his remedial plans-dying, after a very brief illness, on the 4th of April, exactly one month after coming into office. He was the first President who had died during his official term, and a messenger was immediately dispatched with a letter, signed by all the |