What Really Happened With the Political Mayhem of the Election of 1800? Two titans of the era went head-to-head in a heated race for the presidency. The stakes were high.

In the wake of the heated 1800 election where party hostilities and rivalries reached a peak, it would be hard to find harsher words for the incoming president than those of Marshall, a ...

Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond Examiner to print anti-Federalist articles ...