United States Presidential Election, 1812 (President Franklin)

The United States presidential election of 1812 was the seventh quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 30 to Wednesday, December 2, 1812, and took place in the shadow of the War of 1812. It featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Federalist President Alexander Hamilton and Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry who was the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Alexander Hamilton received flack from other politicians and alot of Democratic-Republicans for daring to run a third term. Even Arron Burr the 3rd US President condemed Hamilton for this but later retracted his statement when Hamilton brought up the fact that he attempted to do the same thing but was ironically beaten by Hamilton in the 1804 election.