Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

It’s the first time Georgia’s approximately 8.4 million registered voters have had the opportunity to vote in a Public Service Commission primary election in three years.

Teen turnout ‘soft’ in historic N.J. school election ... A total of 71 16- and 17-year-olds cast ballots in Newark’s historic April 15 school board election out of the 1,796 newly ...

In 1796, at the height of the Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of French forces in northern Italy. He was just 26 years old and had never commanded an army before. Within weeks ...

In the first two elections in 1789 and 1792, George Washington was chosen easily because, hey, he was George Washington. But the election of 1796 revealed a flaw in the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson lost the 1796 election by three electoral votes partly due to his home state of Virginia choosing electors by district. Writing to Virginia Gov. James Monroe in 1800, ...

Election cakes were so popular in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1800s that they were dubbed 'Hartford Election Cakes.' The first known published recipe appears in Amelia Simmons’ 1796 ...

T he election of 1800 was just the fourth presidential contest in American history, and only the election of 1796, the first without George Washington as a candidate, had been contested.

According to the New England Historical Society, the first recipe for American election cake appeared in 1796 in the first U.S. cookbook, Amelia Simmons’ “American Cookery.”Back then, the ...

Kamala Harris must certify the presidential election result, ... In 1796, when John Adams was vice president, he declared himself the president in the Senate, having beaten Thomas Jefferson.

After losing the close 1796 election, Thomas Jefferson and his supporters, who were proponents of the district-based system, saw that he would be in much better shape if Virginia switched to the ...

President George Washington issued his Farewell Address on this day in history, Sept. 19, 1796. He spoke proudly of the new nation but also warned of the dangers of party politics.