1836 United States presidential election in Tennessee

1836 United States presidential election in Tennessee
← 1832 November 3 – December 7, 1836 1840 →
 
Nominee Hugh Lawson White Martin Van Buren
Party Whig Democratic
Home state Tennessee New York
Running mate John Tyler Richard Mentor Johnson
Electoral vote 15 0
Popular vote 36,027 26,170
Percentage 57.92% 42.08%

County results

President before election

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

Elected President

Martin Van Buren
Democratic

The 1836 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place between November 3 and December 7, 1836, as part of the 1836 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Tennessee voted for the Whig candidate Hugh White, a Senator for Tennessee, over the Democratic candidate, Martin Van Buren. White won Tennessee by a margin of 15.84%.

The Whig Party, unable to agree on a candidate, ran four candidates against Van Buren: White, William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. Andrew Jackson actively campaigned against White in Tennessee, and accused him of being a federalist who was opposed to states' rights.[1]: 356  In spite of this, White won Tennessee, as well as Georgia, giving him 26 electoral votes, the third highest total behind Van Buren's 170 and Harrison's 73.[2]

  1. ^ Nancy Scott, A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856).
  2. ^ Election of 1836, The American Presidency Project website, University of California, Santa Barbara. Accessed September 13, 2011.

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