James Buchanan. Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan practiced law in Pennsylvania and was elected to the ...

The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.

The election of 1824 ended that era ... Looking back no further than 1812, which was the last time there had been a serious contest for the presidency, the number of states had increased from ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

When the world snoops on the relationship between the United States and Canada, they see a complicated marriage. Longtime ...

On a cold, wind-swept November afternoon two weeks after election day, the crowds that ... Royal Navy battled for and lost during the War of 1812. A majority of voters here had backed the eventual ...

Although the War of 1812 had officially ended ... Campaign Jackson was nominated for presidency in 1824, but lost to John Quincy Adams when the election came down to the vote of speaker of the House, ...

Henry Wharton Conway went to Arkansas in 1820 after serving in the War of 1812 and working for the U.S. Treasury Department .

Jackson had earned a devoted following in Tennessee, having been a prosecutor, judge, congressman, senator, and general in the War of 1812. After losing to John Quincy Adams in the confused, ...

The war against Britain was declared in 1812 and the state of war surely contributed to his re-election. The public viewed the results of the War of 1812 so favorably that the Federalist Party ...

Georgia’s Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year’s general election.

Issue 1 on Ohio's November ballot would make changes to how maps are drawn for congressional and Statehouse districts. How ...