WeekInTime Issue 49: Tiebreaker
In 1801, the House of Representatives breaks the first and only U.S. presidential tie
It was a tie. Earning an equal number of electoral votes, two candidates from the same party faced off in a final head-to-head. This week in time, the House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson president, resolving the nation’s first and only presidential tie.
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