When The Electoral College Took Down a Winner

Richard Mentor Johnson was a war hero and Jackson protégée whose contradictory life as a slaveowner carrying out a public interracial marriage cause faithless electors to reject his candidacy and send the vice presidency to the Senate.

Gil Troy

Published Nov. 20 2016 12:01AM EST 

Gil Troy

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