PARTICIPATING POLITICAL
PAR TIES IN MARYLAND
Democratic-Republican (D-R)
Federalist (F)
VICTORS IN MARYLAND
President & Vice President
James Monroe (D-R) and
Daniel D. Tompkins-8 electoral votes
ELECTORS
William C. Miller
Benjamin Massey
John Stephen
Joseph Kent
Edward Johnson
John Buchanan
Lawrence Brengle
Littleton Dennis
*Thomas Ennalls
*William Dent Beall
"Listed in the proceedings as having been duly qualified
Electors; however, they did not vote nor sign the
documents.
OPPOSING CANDIDATES
President & Vice President
Rufus King (F) and John E. Howard
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GOVERNOR
Charles Ridgely (F)
MARYLAND ELECTION RETURNS
Monroe and Tompkins 8 electoral votes
NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS
Monroe and Tompkins 183 electoral votes
King and Howard 22
MISCELLANIA
The Federalist Party was nearly extinct at
this time; nomination by the Democratic-Re-
publican Party was tantamount to election
. . . Monroe's popularity and his administra-
tion referred to as the "Era of Good Feeling,"
led to an unopposed second term, an honor
accorded only one other, George Washing-
ton. His tranquility is expressed in his inau-
gural address, "... the heart of every citizen
must expand with joy when he reflects how
near our Government has approached to
perfection; that in respect to it we have no
essential improvement to make; that the
great object is to preserve it in the essential
principles and features which characterize it,
and that is to be done by preserving the vir-
tue and enlightening the minds of the peo-
ple , . ."
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