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The Presidential Election of 1800

The Presidential Election of 1800

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Speaker: Jack Puglisi, history speaker and artist

The presidential election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, was the first hotly contested political race in America’s history. Its importance resonates to this day with the birth of the two-party system, the role of media in elections, and the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power between two conflicting political ideologies.