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Volume 18 , Issue 402016Weekly eZine: (374 subscribers)Subscribe | Unsubscribe Using Desktop... |
NW Okie's Journey
This week we take a look at the three Controversial Elections in American History: 1800, which created drama that it resulted in a Constitutional amendment; 1824, the election that went to the House of Representatives for decision amongst four candidates; 1876, the most contested of the three elections, pitted Republican Rutherford Hayes against Democrat Henry Tilden, who won the popular vote but was one electoral vote short of a majority. But ... First ....
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Walking With Old Sweet Sadie
We have finally reached Daylight Saving time of year, where most of us turn our clocks back an hour to live through more daylight hours. Does it really work, though?
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1800 Presidential Election Controversy
The election of 1800 created so much drama that it resulted in a Constitutional amendment. Under the original system, each person in the Electoral College got two votes: the candidate who got the most votes (as long as it was a majority) became president, and the person in second place would become vice president, whether or not the two were from the same party.
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1824 Presidential Election Controversy
The election of 1824 likewise had to go to the House of Representatives for a decision. All four candidates were Democratic-Republicans: war-hero Andrew Jackson, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford, and House Speaker Henry Clay.
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1876 Presidential Election Controversy
The election of 1876 was perhaps the most contested of the three elections. It pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Henry Tilden.
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Fall of San Antonio & Massacre of the Texan Troops
From The Pittsburgh Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 April 1836, Thursday, page 2, we find this mention of "The War In Texas, and the Fall of San Antonio and Massacre of the Texan Troops."
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The Alamo & Fall of San Antonio, 1836
Remember the Alamo? In searching the news archives, we found this mention in The Long-Island Star, Brooklyn, New York, dated 14 April 1836, Thursday, page 2, with a brief description concerning what happened on the 6th of March 1836 about midnight, at the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas.
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