The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday,November 2,to Wednesday,December 5,1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college,while John Adams was re-elected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed,but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York.
The 1796 United States presidential election was the third quadrennial presidential election of the United States. It was held from Friday,November 4 to Wednesday,December 7,1796. It was the first contested American presidential election,the first presidential election in which political parties played a dominant role,and the only presidential election in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets. Incumbent vice president John Adams of the Federalist Party defeated former secretary of state Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party.
The 1800 United States presidential election was the fourth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from October 31 to December 3,1800. In what is sometimes called the "Revolution of 1800",the Democratic-Republican Party candidate,Vice President Thomas Jefferson,defeated the Federalist Party candidate,incumbent president John Adams. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership. This was the first presidential election in American history to be a rematch.
Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County,Maryland,United States. It is located at an important crossroads at the intersection of a major north–south Native American trail and east–west routes to the Chesapeake Bay,both at Baltimore and what became Washington,D.C.,and across the Appalachian mountains to the Ohio River watershed. Frederick's population was 78,171 people as of the 2020 census,making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland behind Baltimore. It is a part of the Washington metropolitan area,which is part of a greater Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County,West Virginia,United States,in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The population was 285 at the 2020 census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers,where the U.S. states of Maryland,Virginia,and West Virginia meet,it is the easternmost town in West Virginia.
Henry Alexander Wise was an American attorney,diplomat,politician and slave owner from Virginia. As the 33rd governor of Virginia,Wise served as a significant figure on the path to the American Civil War,becoming heavily involved in the 1859 trial of abolitionist John Brown. After leaving office in 1860,Wise also led the move toward Virginia's secession from the Union in reaction to the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Charles Page Thomas Moore was a lawyer and justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals,who before the American Civil War had helped found the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 1852 at Jefferson College in Canonsburg,Pennsylvania.
John Lee Carroll,a member of the United States Democratic Party,was the 37th Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1880.
John Letcher was an American lawyer,journalist,and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress,was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War,and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.
Thomas Salem Bocock was a Confederate politician and lawyer from Virginia. After serving as an antebellum United States Congressman,he was the speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives during most of the American Civil War.
Andrew H. Hunter was a Virginia lawyer,slaveholder and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. He was the Commonwealth's attorney for Jefferson County,Virginia,who prosecuted John Brown for the raid on Harpers Ferry.
Henry Sheffie Geyer was a politician,lawyer,and soldier from Missouri. Born in Frederick,Maryland,he was the son of John Geyer,saddler of Frederick Town. Geyer was of German descent,his father having come from Prussia.
Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859,at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland,as the sole Judge until his death in 1893. While on the court he presided over the trial that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of Pennoyer v. Neff concerning personal jurisdiction.
Charles Fenton Mercer was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Loudoun County,Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Virginia General Assembly.
Robley Dunglison was an English-American physician,medical educator and author who served as the first full-time professor of medicine in the United States at the newly founded University of Virginia from 1824 to 1833. He authored multiple medical textbooks and is considered the "Father of American Physiology" after the publication of his landmark textbook Human Physiology in 1832. He was the personal physician to Thomas Jefferson,James Madison and James Monroe. He consulted in the treatment of Andrew Jackson and was in attendance at Jefferson's death.
Jonathan Kearsley (1786–1859) was an American military officer and politician. He fought in the War of 1812 and was a two-time mayor of Detroit.
Benjamin William Brice was a lawyer and soldier who served in the United States Army during the Black Hawk War and Mexican-American War. Later employed as the Paymaster General of the Union Army during the American Civil War and postbellum periods,Brice had on his retirement in 1872 risen to the rank of brevet major general.
Events from the year 1789 in the United States. The Articles of Confederation,the agreement under which the nation's government had been operating since 1781,was superseded by the Constitution in March of this year.
Bernard A. Maguire was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit who served twice as the president of Georgetown University. Born in Ireland,he emigrated to the United States at the age of six,and his family settled in Maryland. Maguire attended Saint John's College in Frederick,Maryland,and then entered the Society of Jesus in 1837. He continued his studies at Georgetown University,where he also taught and was prefect,until his ordination to the priesthood in 1851.
John Henry Hill was an American lawyer,educator,school administrator,and military officer. He was the second principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1894 until 1898. West Virginia State considers him its second president.
4. The History of Education in West Virginia; State Institutions - West Virginia University, Waitman Rabre, Litt. D., 1909, West Virginia State Department of History, p. 57.
