The American Presidential Election of 1880
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The 24th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. In 1880, the country is still divided yet seemingly united in another very close election.
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The 24th Presidential election in American history took place on November 2, 1880.
Back in 1876, while running for President, Rutherford Hayes promised he would not seek a second term. Unlike Frank Underwood, Rutherford actually stayed true to his word. In 1880, he was leaving that job open for someone else. But who else? Well, Republicans had a hard time figuring out who would take his place. Republican leaders met in June in what would become the longest Republican National Convention in history. Two major factions within the Republican Party made the decision for a nominee a difficult one. One faction, the Stalwarts, tended to revolve around New York Senator Roscoe Conkling. They generally favored a thing called patronage (also known as the spoils system) which basically said you should reward the people who got you elected. The other faction, the Half-Breeds (they got that name because their opponents called them only “half Republican”), revolved around Maine Senator James Blaine. They generally did not like patronage, saying people should be appointed on merit alone and not by political favors or obligations.
That was pretty much the only big issue dividing the Republicans, surprisingly. After deciding against it in 1876, Ulysses Grant shocked several people when he decided to run for a third term. Many Republicans were all for it, but he had opponents. The aforementioned James Blaine, John Sherman, the brother of Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and former Senator from Ohio, and James Garfield, a Representative from Ohio. It took a long time, but the Republicans nominated neither a Stalwart or a Half-Breed in the end. They nominated a guy who definitely did not expect to get nominated- James Garfield. Some of the Stalwarts weren’t so sure about Garfield, so Chester Arthur, a Stalwart from New York, was nominated as his running mate.
Under the shadow of Samuel Tilden’s devastating defeat four years earlier, the Democrats held their convention soon after. The two leading candidates were Major General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania and Thomas Bayard, a Senator from Delaware. The Democrats finally had their war hero- Hancock served most of his life in the Army. He was a Civil War veteran, and the dude even fought in the Mexican American War for crying out loud. So yeah, Bayard didn’t stand a chance. Hancock was the nominee, with William Hayden English, a businessman and former Representative from Indiana, as his running mate.
The Greenback Party had gained some momentum since their first presidential try in 1876. Hoping to actually win some actual electoral votes this time, they nominated James Weaver, a Representative and Civil War general from Iowa. Unlike Garfield and Hancock, he went around the country giving speeches to promote his campaign. Weaver’s running mate was Barzillai Chambers, a surveyor and lawyer who fought with the Confederates in the Civil War, believe it or not.
What was fascinating to me about this election is that the Presidential candidates didn’t seem to disagree a whole lot, although you would never know it living at the time. For example, a hot button issue in the final weeks before election day was Chinese immigration. In reality, the Republicans, Democrats, and Greenbackers all wanted to limit Chinese immigration. They all agreed! So what’s the issue?
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As a follow up it would be nice to do a series on the change in Congress during each election cycle. Perhaps only from 1900 to present
I loved your book. Keep up the good work.
As of Today Garfield was the First and Only Sitting Congressman to be elected President
Richard Garfield, the creator of "Magic: The Gathering", is the great-great-grandson of President James Garfield.
what a fall from grace...
Thank you Mr President
Hey I think I know you
George Washington thanks George
George Washington that’s because it’s You
I like how Hancock was literally a Union General, closely linked to victory at Gettysburg, and won the whole damn south.
A democrat is a democrat lol
For real lol
He could have killed babies and drink their blood and still won the south . Why ? Becase of that Donkey before his name .
Vote blue no matter who ig lol
He supported Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction polices.
Charles Guiteau recited a poem before his execution. He even wanted an orchestra to play while he sang it, but was denied.
guiteau is crazy
Charles Guitout
James Garfield was a tragic case of what might have been, considering how amazing they say he was (like writing in Greek in one hand and Latin in the other at the same time for example)
He had so much potential but it was all taken away
Definitely. I watched a PBS documentary on the guy. He was all for things like equal rights for Blacks. What could’ve been.
I'm related to James Garfield. I visit his tomb in Cleveland every year.
That is awesome
In what way are you related?
I'm pretty sure Garfield, the comic strip cat, was indirectly named after the President. Creator Jim Davis named him after his own grandfather, James Garfield Davis.
How so?
@John Porteous probably his grea great great great great great grandfather
Fun fact: James Garfield was the only person to be elected to the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency in the same day
James Garfield is probably my biggest "what if" in US history. If his wound hadn't gotten infected and he returned to health to finish out his term
Probably would have been 4th best
Probably been voted for a second term as well
Actually, Garfield did not seek the nomination. He delivered an improvised nominating speech for Sherman (merely a favorite son, not a serious candidate) because he hadn't had time to write a speech. He was so eloquent that he stampeded the convention. He spent that night begging delegates NOT to nominate him!
I always like to think that Garfield would have been one of the greatest American presidents ever, had he lived. Supported African-American civil rights, wanted universal education, supported civil service reform, was anti-corruption and pro-free trade.
Hancock would probably been good, too.
Fact: before Donald ran for 2016, this election was the most used when given speeches about "Chhinaa"
*The James from Maine is mainly called Blaine*
Vote Blaine from Maine
Mr. Beat hahaha
Yeah, I won.
And died in 6 months
Евгений Ведяков true
Good job
George Washington Hi Mr. President
Imagine having to get elected
When all the candidates agree on policy, the only option is to vote based on facial hair.
This is the 2nd time I've invaded your comment section with beard talk. Sorry
+Political Junkie News LOL obviously. Really though, I could talk about beards for hours. The 1880s were the like the golden age for them.
Very true Mr beat
Fun Fact: If you apply the current electoral map to this election, Hancock would've won this election, even reaching the 270 Mark
Did you know that technically Garfield wasn’t assasinated
His doctors technically killed him:
He was bed ridden becasue the doctors used a metal detector to find the billet but he was on a bed with springs and other metals
The doctors literally OPENED UP HOS BODY AND HE DIED TO LOSS OF BLODD
“Garfield was the second president assassinated in American History”
*1812 Overture intensifies*
Taylor was poisoned possibly
He’s my great great great great grandpa
Jacob Hancock really ?
Hayden Nugent yep
Jacob Hancock Amazing
Wow that’s really cool
I like how the music in the background is related to the time. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture was the music in the background:)
I just laughed and found it funny that Gueto would shoot Garfield because he didn't give him a job. I'm having a hard time looking for a job as well but at least I'm not doing what Gueto did to Garfield.
*Guiteau
I know this comment is crazy old but the whole looking for a job thing makes a little more sense in the context of the time. Iirc one of the old jobs of the president was to actually oversee jobs within the federal government. So people would actually wait in line at the white house to meet with the President in a way to secure some sort of employment.
Charles Guieteau did this several times, but the white house staff had repeatedly dismissed him as a bit of a loony clown (he was obviously mentally ill, in historical hindsight). He took this personally, and wound up shooting Garfield.
I don't remember the specific details of how the president did the whole "give people a job" thing, but I remember reading about it before.
In elementary school we did President reports, and I remember I did mine on Chester Arthur
Election Rundown:
Took place on: Nov. 2 1880
Members of the collage: 369
Elec. Votes needed to win: 185
Turnout: 78% (down 3.8% 1876)
Candidates: Republican Party: Incumbent Rep. for Ohio’s 19th James A. Garfield. Running Mate: Incumbent NY Rep. Party Chairman Chester A. Arthur.
Democratic Party: Incumbent Army Major General Winfield Scott Hancock from Pennsylvania. Running Mate: Former Rep. for Indiana’s 2nd William H. English.
Greenback Party: Incumbent HOR member from Iowa’s 6th James B. Weaver. Running Mate: Barzillai J. Chambers from Texas.
Prohibition Party: Former Portland Mayor Neal Dow from Maine. Running Mate: Incumbent Otterbein U. President Henry Adams Thompson from Ohio.
Anti-Masonic Party: John W. Phelps from Vermont. Running Mate: Former Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy from Kansas.
Elec. Votes: Garfield/Arthur: 214. Hancock/English: 155.
Popular Vote: Garfield/Arthur: 4,446,158/48.32%. Hancock/English: 4,444,260/48.21%. Weaver/Chambers: 308,649/3.35%. Dow/Thompson: 10,364/0.11%. Phelps/Pomeroy: 1,045/0.01%. States Carried: Garfield/Arthur and Hancock/English: 19.
Total Votes: 9,219,477.
Fact for the election: Closet Popular vote margin in history (the pres. That lost the popular vote had a bigger margin)
Garfield won the popular vote by a 1,898 vote margin.
4:10 that's look benjamin harrison
I bet the Republican Party chose James Garfield over everyone else because he was the one who looked the most like Rutherford Hayes. Still, I wish Winfield Scott could have won.
James Blaine from Maine, yo!
Thankfully I didn't need to go through all that election crap
Garfield wrote a blank book about Hancock during the general election campaign.
Sam O'Nella has a great video on Guiteau
It honestly upsets me that we don't talk about president Garfield all that much
I didn't even know he had been assassinated. I thought only Lincoln and Kenedy had been assassinated with an attempt on Reagan.
@@thebestchemicalelement4455 fun fact: there was an assassination attempt on Lincoln before he was actually assassinated and he nearly got shot but survived by inches due to the bullet hitting his top hat, in fact president Jackson was also in an assassination attempt, some weirdo walked up on him and pulled out a pistol and when he pulled the trigger it miss fired, Jackson who was enraged proceed to beat him with his cane but the weirdo managed to pull out a second pistol, it too miss fired, so yeah being president is the most dangerous job in America
@@thebestchemicalelement4455 same with Gerald Ford
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Hey Matt great video but you gotta speed up if you wanna cover all the elections before the general election this November :)
+Harry Christofi You got that right, Harry. I'd better get to it. Hopefully this summer (when I'm not teaching) I can catch up and release two a week.
+Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel I agree Summer is just around the corner so seize the chance ;)
I would vote Garfield this election
Every time I hear Garfield’s last name I can’t help but think about the comic strip.
epic background music
It's funny how every pretty much every presidential candidate was a former general
I wonder what a Hancock presidency would’ve been, he seems pretty interesting
No cannons at the end. Feels bad man
Good job on this video.
I'd like a word with Charles Guiteau, Garfield could've been a great president
The guy standing in the slightly right center of the photo is President Garfield.
James Garfield one by a whisker...
Sometimes you can get a win without looking for it
Wait, so Hancock was a Union general but still ran it up in the South?
He's a democrat candidate, so that's why.
he could have killed babies and drink their blood and still won the south . Why ? Becase of that Donkey before his name .
What were the parties' ideologies by that time?
Democrats were the conservative party and Republicans were the liberal party, in a nutshell
Mr. Beat When did the switch ideologies? Ive been trying to find out for ages.
It is claimed that during Nixon's election the start begun (Or after Goldwater's campagin with Reagan's making Goldwater's ideals a reality with success). Though, it is important to point out that "Conservative" and "Liberal" meaning changed over time...
Rami O Bomb Alright that clears it up Thanks.
Anytime :)!
If James Blaine ran it's important to remember that one of the other people lost.
'Mr. Beat' failed to actually give and/or provide the specifically precise National Popular Vote percentage-based voting outcomes for each of those two respective presidential political party candidates. It would actually be fantastically great if 'Mr. Beat' made the necessary actuarial correction(s) to this video & state the numerical percentages in order to illustrate just how precisely 'razor-thin' that National Popular Vote result really was. Do it retroactively.
James Garfeild’s campain song: “bitch lasagna bitch! lasagna! Look at handcock, he just crying for his mama!”
0:52 fuck?
Lol yea wtf
@@hussain6469 😂😂
This wasn't as bad as Tilden but it still bothers me and considering it happen what hundred and thirty years ago and I've only been alive for 41 years I guess it's never going to stop bothering me
???
wow
Why is 1812 overture playing?
I guess because it was composed at the same time as this Election
It was a big hit in 1880.
Yep that never gets old shot by a literally crazy dude who wouldn't give him a job
Less then 50 percent of the population actually voted, as women were still not allowed zo vote.
4:33
It is not pronounced Charles Goo-toe. It is Gu-tee-a.
You should stop putting "78% of the population voted in this election", "78% of Males in the US voted in this election" is a more accurate description..
I can keep putting likes on this... I wonder why I love that literally crazy dude
Joe Biden in 2020 appears to not want a second term too. :o
Yeah he'd be the first since Hayes to do so willingly, which is so long ago
Who knows if he will be alive or not by 2024
@@FroxyProxy he has hinted that if he beats Trump there could be a chance he could run for a second term
he said he s going for reelection
Wrong
No such thing as a popular vote victory
Their is
Yes there is… it has happened many times…. Do people just comment anything nowadays so confidently, without even doing 20 seconds of research?
Samual what's wrong with u
IM Also related to james garfield im his daughter
I don't understand how Winfield Scott Hancock lost this election. If you know your Civil War history he was pretty much the best they had. I'm A Confederacy sympathizer. I have much respect for Winfield Scott Hancock we might have not had our great victory at Fredericksburg had Ambrose Burnside listened to Hancock. And Garfield was just an unknown but well at least this election wasn't stolen like happened to Tilden
Confederate sympathizer? In 2018? Did people forget the whole slavery thing?
@@azhurelpigeon as crazy as it sounds 4% of millenials said they would prefer a fascist form of goverment rather than the current model.
rick johnson 4% of millennials are idiots then
@@azhurelpigeon probably 80% want communism and 100% never studied history
beercanman Very few millennials want communism. And if you can’t tell the difference between Authoritarian Communist Russia, and Democratic Socialist Canada, Norway, France, U.K., Germany etc., you’re kind’ve brain dead.