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[1]= 1808 United States Presidential Election =
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176 members of the Electoral College 89 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 41.2% 17.4 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1808 United States presidential election was the sixth quadrennial presidential election held from Friday, November 4, to Wednesday, December 7, 1808. The Democratic Republican Candidate James Madison narrowly defeated Federalist candidate John Quincy Adams.
Madison had served as Secretary of State since President Thomas Jefferson took office in 1801. Jefferson, who had declined to run for a third term, threw his strong support behind Madison, a fellow Virginian. Sitting Vice President George Clinton and former Ambassador James Monroe both challenged Madison for leadership of the party, but Madison won his party's nomination and Clinton was re-nominated as vice president. The Federalists chose to nominate John Quincy Adams, a Senator from Massachusetts. Adams had gained significant national prominence following his public call for the impeachment of President Thomas Jefferson and the subsequent Supreme Court Case, United States v. Adams.
The unpopularity of the Embargo Act of 1808 signifcantly harmed Madison in New England as he failed to win a single state in the region. Despite the unpopularity of the Embargo Act of 1808 in the New England region of the United States, Madison remained popular in the South. Many Southern states saw their economies grow as a result of the Embargo Act as trade with France increased. Southern raw materials saw increasing demand in France and in New England, where many manufacturers looked to create a new internal market for finished goods that would have previously been imported from Great Britain. Although the Embargo Act of 1808 would be important in developing the manufacturing industry in New England, and would largely be the reason for their future industrial dominance, startup costs on new manufacturing were heavy and the act spurred a brief debt crisis among the manufacturers there, largely why it remained unpopular.