... were the same men who had stood against each other in 1796, but their situations had changed a great deal in the four years since John Adams had won the office by a margin of three electoral votes over Thomas Jefferson. Adams was now weighed down by the errors of ... presidential candidate to be run on the ticket with Jefferson. The Federalist members of Congress also held a caucus in which they agreed to support John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney for the Federalist ticket (Cunningham, 106). During the campaign of 1800, national attention shifted from one state to ... sent an ur...

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