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United States presidential election of 1836
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The election results of 1836 Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison Richard Johnson American orator and politician Daniel Webster Willie P. Mangum William Henry Harrison Thematic map of the United States showing the results of the 1836 presidential election by state, with each state shaded according to the winning candidate. Martin Van Buren (Democratic) states are in blue, while various shades of purple and pink represent states won by Whig candidates William Henry Harrison, Hugh Lawson White, Daniel Webster, and Anti-Jacksonian Willie Person Mangum. A legend at the bottom assigns colors to each candidate and lists their total electoral votes. State boundaries
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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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United States presidential election of 1836, American presidential election held in 1836, in which Democrat Martin Van Buren defeated several Whig Party candidates led by William Henry Harrison . As Pres. Andrew Jackson ’s second term drew to a close, he unofficially anointed his vice president, Martin Van Buren, as the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party. Although Van Buren lacked Jackson’s personal charisma, he was considered a skilled politician, and in May 1835 he was...

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