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The earliest example of a sitting Vice President challenging a sitting President is arguably the election of 1800, when Thomas Jefferson challenged John Adams. In 1796, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were elected President and Vice President, though they were The closer parallel to the Trump-Pence situation is when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1940, and Vice President John Nance Garner challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Six years into the job, Garner—a Texan nicknamed “Cactus Jack”—came to represent a group of conservative Democrats who had grown disenchanted with FDR’s liberal New Deal, which they believed expanded the role of the federal government too much. Nancy Beck Young, professor of History at the University of Houston, who consulted on a PBS documentary about Garner, tells TIME that Garner’s “biggest” concerns were that the federal government was supporting auto workers striking against General Motors in Michigan and deficit spending, which he said needed to be reigned in. Garner also opposed FDR’s effort to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. George Rinhart/Corbis ––Getty Images TIME magazine summed up the tensions in a Mar. 20, 1939, cover story on the intraparty split headlined “undeclared war”: “Party rebellion is no new thing in U.S. history…Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still ...

1d ago 23.15 BST Summary of the day Here’s a quick recap of today’s developments: • Several Republican candidates have showed willingness to challenge Donald Trump’s Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice-president who has broken with him, • Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor who is among the most anti-Donald Trump candidates standing for the Republican presidential nomination, said he would not vote for the former president if he is convicted of a felony. • But Trump has reportedly raised more than $7m since he was indicted last week, including more than $2m at a fundraising event at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, hours after appearing in a Miami federal court on Tuesday. • A Trump’s federal indictment over the Mar-a-Lago documents changes little. He remains the most popular GOP candidate for president, with 53% support, against runner-up Ron DeSantis’s 23%. • The attorney general, Merrick Garland, defended special counsel Jack Smith in the Department of Justice’s indictment of Trump. Smith was a “veteran career prosecutor” who has “assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents who share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law”, Garland said in his first public comments about the indictment since Trump pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges on Tuesday. • The House voted to reject a Republican resolution to censure the California congressman Adam Schiff over his comments about Trump and investigations into his ties to Rus...

On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered to Congress the first State of the Union address in American history. This address presented defense, foreign policy, economic, education, and immigration related topics to gathered representatives and senators in Federal Hall, New York City. Facts about the first State of the Union Address (1790) Read the Full Address Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives. I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity, which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favourable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received)—the rising credit and respectability of our Country—the general and increasing good will towards the Government of the Union—and the concord, peace and plenty, with which we are blessed, are circumstances, auspicious, in an eminent degree to our national prosperity. In resuming your consultations for the general good, you cannot but derive encouragement from the reflection, that the measures of the last Session have been as satisfactory to your Constituents, as the novelty and difficulty of the work allowed you to hope. Still further to realize their expectations, and to secure the blessings which a Gracious Providence has placed within our reach, will in the course of the present important Session, call for the cool and deliberate exe...

The 1790 census was the first federally sponsored count of the American people. One of the most significant undertakings of No one knew precisely how many people lived in the United States when Washington became president. Although the The Constitution also stipulated that the census would be decennial and that the first enumeration was to be completed "within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States," which convened in March 1789. Although Sweden was the first country to institute a regular national census, in 1749, the United States was the first to do for the purpose of continually reapportioning legislative seats (in the House of Representatives) to reflect changes in the size and geographic distribution of the population to ensure equitable representation. Congress took up the matter of the census in its second session, and "An Act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States" became law on March 1, 1790. The bill that Washington signed into law specified that the census would include only the names of heads of households and an enumeration of persons divided into five categories: free white males age sixteen and older; free white males under the age of sixteen; free white females; all other free persons; and slaves. The census differentiated white males, but not females, by age because adult white men were widely understood to be the source of a nation's military and economic power. The category "other free per...

Following the ratification of the Constitution by the necessary nine states in July of 1788, Congress set January 7 of the following year as the date by which states were required to choose electors. Those chosen would cast their votes a month later, on February 4. Washington was loath to leave the comforts of On April 16, after receiving congressional notification of the honour, Washington set out from For the results of the subsequent election, see American presidential election, 1789 presidential candidate political party electoral votes popular votes* *Electors were chosen by legislatures in many states, not by popular vote. **In this election, and in others until 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. Because the two houses of the New York legislature could not agree on electors, the state did not cast its electoral vote. North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the Constitution. Source: United States Office of the Federal Register. no formally organized parties 69** 34 9 R.H. Harrison 6 6 4 3 Samuel Huntington 2 John Milton 2 James Armstrong 1 1 Edward Telfair 1 not voted 44 This article was most recently revised and updated by

WATCH: According to Article Two of the U.S. Constitution, the states appointed a number of presidential electors equal to the “number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress.” Each elector voted for two people, at least one of whom did not live in their state. The individual receiving the greatest number of votes was elected president, and the next-in-line, vice president. (In 1804, this practice was changed by the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, which ordered separate ballots for the office of president and vice president.) New York—though it was to be the seat of the new United States government—failed to choose its eight presidential electors in time for the vote on February 4, 1789. Two electors each from That the remaining 69 unanimously chose Washington to lead the new U.S. government was a surprise to no one. As commander-in-chief during the Revolutionary War, he had led his inexperienced and poorly equipped army of civilian soldiers to victory over one of the world’s great powers. After the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, Washington rejected with abhorrence a suggestion by one of his officers that he use his preeminence to assume a military dictatorship. He would not subvert the very principles for which so many Americans had fought and died, he replied, and soon after, he surrendered his military commission to the Continental Congress and retired to his READ MORE: When the Articles of Confederation proved ineffectu...