U.S. presidential election, 1836

The U.S. presidential election of 1836 is predominantly remembered for three reasons:

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• It was the last election until 1988 to result in the elevation of an incumbent Vice President to the nation's highest office.
• It was the only race in which a major political party intentionally ran several presidential candidates. The Whigs ran three different candidates in different regions of the country, hoping that each would be popular enough to defeat Democratic standard-bearer Martin Van Buren in their respective areas. The House of Representatives could then decide between the competing Whig candidates. This strategy failed: Van Buren won a majority of the electoral vote and became President.
• This election is the first (and to date only) time in which a Vice Presidential election was thrown into the Senate.
 
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