United States Presidential Election, 1816 (War of 1812: American Victory)

This page is based on the Wikipedia article about the same topic, as I'm covering the same history, just with a different ending to the War of 1812.

The United States Presidential Election of 1816 took place in 1816. It saw Secretary of State James Monroe defeated Senator Rufus King. This is the last election in which the dying Federalists nominated a candidate for President.

As President James Madison chose to retire after serving two terms, the Democratic-Republicans held a congressional nominating caucus in March 1816. With the support of Madison and former President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State Monroe defeated Secretary of War William H. Crawford to win his party's presidential nomination. Governor Daniel D. Tompkins of New York won the Democratic-Republican vice presidential nomination, continuing the party's tradition of balancing a presidential nominee from Virginia with a vice presidential nominee from either New York or New England. The Federalists did not formally nominate a ticket, but Senator King of New York emerged as the de facto Federalist candidate.

The War of 1812 dominated politics in elections afterwards. Due to American victory in the War of 1812, the Democratic Republicans became popular everywhere except for New England. One issue that was created from this was statehood for the Canadian territories, which the Federalists supported. The Federalists, however were discredited by their opposition to the war and New England's calls for secession, which discredits the Federalists further outside of New England and Canada, allowing Monroe to win 17 of 20 states and 186 electoral votes.