Description. In the election of 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Federalist Party candidate and incumbent President John Adams in a contest that ...

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The 1800 election was a showdown between the country’s first two political parties: the Federalists, led by Adams; and the Democratic Republicans, captained by Jefferson.

This was the backdrop to the election of 1800, which led to the first peaceful transfer of power in U.S. history — an essential republican tradition. In this episode, ...

In the 1800 election, Thomas ]Jefferson’s partisans “accused the incumbent President Adams of having a hideous hermaphroditical character.” Wikimedia Commons.

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The 1800 election did not work much better, which threw the House of Representatives into a struggle to decide who would become the next president, who ultimately was Jefferson.

Four years later, it was incumbent president vs. vice president in the 1800 election, with Jefferson this time prevailing. However, it was an unusual process.