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Election Day/Presidential trivia

#1 Post by andrewjackson » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:41 am

Who was the first U.S. President elected after the federal election day was established on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November?
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#2 Post by ne1410s » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:46 am

Harding??
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#3 Post by nitrah55 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:55 am

Fillmore?
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#4 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:03 am

John Adams?
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#5 Post by andrewjackson » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:11 am

Nobody has it yet.
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#6 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:17 am

Well, only 39 to go. :P
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#7 Post by Jeemie » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:23 am

Spoiler
Zachary Taylor
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#8 Post by andrewjackson » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:03 pm

Jeemie wins all the points.
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Congress set the day in 1845. Taylor's election in 1848 was the first after that. It was originally going to be the first Tuesday in November but someone pointed out that the first Tuesday could possibly be more than 34 days before the first Wednesday in December when the Electoral College is designated to meet. In 1792 Congress had set the meeting of the Electoral College for that day in December and said that the selection of electors had to take place sometime within the 34 days before. So the "after the first Monday" bit was added to make sure that Election Day would not be on November 1.
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#9 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:23 pm

Jeemie wrote:
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#10 Post by Jeemie » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:26 pm

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
Jeemie wrote:
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I guessed- I knew it was in the 1840s sometime.

And then later I looked it up to find out why it was a Tuesday.

And that was because it took many farmers a full day to get to a polling station, and they couldn't travel on Sundays (Christian Sabbath).

So they made it a Tuesday so the farmer could leave on Monday to vote.
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