List of 1820 United States presidential electors explained

This is a list of electors (members of the Electoral College) who cast ballots to elect the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 1820 presidential election.[1] [2] The election was won by incumbent president James Monroe, with 231 (or 228) electoral votes, and incumbent vice president Daniel D. Tompkins, with 218 (or 215) votes.

A total of 235 men were elected to the Electoral College, but three—one each from Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee—did not cast their ballots.[3] At least two, Melchior Rahm and Duncan Stewart, had died before their state's electors voted; the disposition of the third is unclear.

In addition, the status of the three electors from Missouri was a matter of dispute. Congress had passed an enabling act directing Missouri to organize a state government and that "the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union."[4] The dispute was over whether Missouri's new state constitution fulfilled the requirements. In the end, two official vote totals were announced by Congress, one counting Missouri's votes and one not, with neither declared the canonical result — the source of debates over whether Monroe won 231 or 228 electoral votes.[5] Missouri was not officially admitted as a state until August 10, 1821.

Alabama

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Alabama. All 3 of Alabama's electors voted for James Monroe for president and Daniel D. Tompkins for vice president.

  1. Henry Minor
  2. George Phillips
  3. John Scott

Connecticut

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Connecticut. All 9 of Connecticut's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. John Alsop
  2. Ebenezer Brockway
  3. William Cogswell
  4. Ingoldsby W. Crawford
  5. Isaiah Loomis
  6. William Moseley
  7. Samuel H. Phillips
  8. Henry Seymour
  9. Samuel Welles

Delaware

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Delaware. All four of Delaware's electors voted Monroe for president. For vice president, however, all four voted for Delaware Federalist Daniel Rodney, the only votes he received.

  1. Andrew Barratt
  2. John Clark
  3. Nicholas Ridgely
  4. Peter Robinson

Georgia

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Georgia. All 8 of Georgia's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. John Foster
  2. John Graves
  3. John MacIntosh
  4. David Meriwether
  5. Henry Mitchell
  6. Oliver Porter
  7. John Rutherford
  8. Benjamin Whitaker

Illinois

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Illinois. All 3 of Illinois's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Adolphus Hubbard
  2. Michael Jones
  3. James B. Moore

Indiana

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Indiana. All 3 of Indiana's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Daniel J. Caswell
  2. Nathaniel Ewing
  3. John H. Thompson

Kentucky

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Kentucky. All 12 of Kentucky's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Jesse Bledsoe
  2. Thomas Bodley
  3. Samuel Caldwell
  4. Ephraim M. Ewing
  5. Martin D. Hardin
  6. James Johnson
  7. John E. King
  8. Willis A. Lee
  9. Samuel Murrel
  10. John Pope
  11. Hubbard Taylor
  12. Richard Taylor

Louisiana

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Louisiana. All 3 of Louisiana's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. John Randolph Grymes
    1. Philemon Thomas David L. Todd

Maine

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Maine. All 9 of Maine's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Elisha Allen
  2. William Chadwick
  3. Joshua Gage
  4. Levi Hubbard
  5. William Moody
  6. Josiah Prescott
  7. Lemuel Trescott
  8. Samuel Tucker
  9. Joshua Wingate, Jr.

Maryland

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Maryland. All 11 of Maryland's electors voted Monroe for president. Ten voted Tompkins for vice president, but James Forrest cast his ballot for Maryland Federalist Robert Goodloe Harper.

  1. John Boon
  2. Robert W. Bowie
  3. Elias Brown
  4. James Forrest
  5. John Forward
  6. William Gabby
    1. Alexander McKim Joshua Prideaux
    2. Michael Sprigg John Stephen
  7. William R. Stuart

Massachusetts

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Massachusetts. All 15 of Massachusetts's electors voted Monroe for president. Seven of the 15 voted for Tompkins for vice president, but eight voted instead for New Jersey Federalist Richard Stockton, the only votes he received. No known record indicates which electors voted for each candidate.

  1. John Adams
  2. Thomas H. Blood
    1. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield Samuel Dana
  3. John Davis
  4. Wendell Davis
  5. William Gray
  6. John Heard
  7. Ebenezer Mattoon
  8. William Phillips
  9. Jonas Sibley
  10. Seth Sprague
  11. Ezra Starkweather
  12. Daniel Webster
  13. Joseph Woodbridge

Mississippi

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Mississippi. Two of Mississippi's 3 electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins. Elector Duncan Stewart died on November 26, 1820, before casting his ballot.[6] [7]

  1. Daniel Burnet
  2. Theodore Stark
  3. Duncan Stewart (died before voting)

Missouri

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Missouri. All 3 of Missouri's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins, though whether they should be counted—Missouri would not be formally admitted as a state for several more months—was an unsettled matter of dispute.

  1. John S. Brickey
  2. William Christy
  3. William Shannon

New Hampshire

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in New Hampshire. Seven of New Hampshire's 8 electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins. Faithless elector William Plumer cast his ballot for Secretary of State John Quincy Adams for president and Pennsylvania Federalist Richard Rush for vice president.

  1. David Barker, Jr.
  2. Ezra Bartlett
    1. Samuel Dinsmoor William Fisk
  3. John Pendexter
  4. William Plumer
  5. Nathaniel Shannon
  6. James Smith

New Jersey

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in New Jersey. All 8 of New Jersey's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Joseph Budd
  2. John Crowell
  3. David Mills
  4. Isaiah Shinn
  5. John L. Smith
  6. Samuel L. Southard
  7. Aaron Vansyckel
  8. John Wilson

New York

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in New York. All 29 of New York's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. John Baker
  2. James Brisban
  3. Latham A. Burrows
  4. Jonathan Collins
  5. Gilbert Eddy
  6. William Floyd
  7. Howell Gardner
  8. David Hammond
  9. Elisha Harnham
  10. Abel Huntington
  11. Benjamin Knower
  12. Issac Lawrence
  13. Edward P. Livingston
  14. Daniel MacDougall
  15. Peter Millikin
  16. Samuel Nelson
  17. Jacob Odell
  18. William B. Rochester
  19. Henry Rutgers
  20. Edward Severich
  21. Mark Spencer
  22. Farrand Stranahan
  23. Philetus Swift
  24. John Targee
  25. Charles Thompson
  26. Henry Wager
  27. John Walworth
  28. Peter Waring
  29. Seth Wetmore

North Carolina

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in North Carolina. All 15 of North Carolina's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Benjamin H. Covington
  2. Jesse Franklin
  3. Alexander Gray
  4. John Hall
  5. Charles E. Johnson
  6. Kimborough Jones
  7. Thomas S. Kenan
  8. Francis Locke
  9. Robert Love
  10. Michael MacLeary
  11. James Mebane
    1. George Outlaw Abraham Phillips
  12. Henry J. G. Ruffin
  13. Lewis D. Wilson

Ohio

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Ohio. All 8 of Ohio's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. James Caldwell
  2. Alexander Campbell
  3. Lewis Dille
  4. William Henry Harrison
  5. James Kilbourne
  6. Robert Lucas
  7. John MacLaughlin
  8. Jeremiah Morrow

Pennsylvania

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania. All 25 Pennsylvania electors were pledged to Monroe and Tompkins, but only 24 ended up casting ballots. Former state senator Melchior Rahm was chosen as an elector, but he died on the day Pennsylvania electors were scheduled to vote, October 31, 1820.

  1. George Barnitz
  2. Philip Benner
  3. William Clinghan
  4. Paul Cox
  5. Pierce Crosby
  6. Hugh Davis
  7. Daniel W. Dingam
  8. Patrick Farrelly
  9. Andrew Gilkerson
  10. James Griffen
  11. Daniel Groves
  12. John Hamilton
  13. George Hebb
  14. Gabriel Hiester
  15. Joseph Huston
  16. James Kerr
  17. Thomas Leiper
  18. John Miley
  19. William Mitchell
    1. George Plumer Chandler Price
  20. James P. Sanderson
  21. Andrew Sutton
  22. John Todd
  23. Melchior Rahm (died before voting)

Rhode Island

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Rhode Island. All 4 of Rhode Island's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Dutee Arnold
  2. James Fenner
  3. Robert F. Noyes
  4. Dutee J. Pearce

South Carolina

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in South Carolina. All 11 of South Carolina's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Lewis M. Ayer
  2. William A. Ball
  3. Rasha Cannon
  4. Benjamin Dickson
  5. John Dunovant
  6. John S. Glascock
  7. Benjamin James
  8. Matthew J. Kirth
  9. Charles Miller
  10. Benjamin Rynalds
  11. Isaac Smith

Tennessee

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Tennessee. Seven of Tennessee's 8 electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins. For reasons that remain unclear, no elector voted for the state's fourth elector district.[8] [9]

  1. David Campbell
  2. Alfred M. Carter
  3. Joseph Dickson
  4. Joseph Hamilton, Sr.
  5. German Lester
  6. Henry Small
  7. John J. White

Vermont

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Vermont. All 8 of Vermont's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

    1. D. Azro A. Buck Ezra Butler
  1. Gilbert Denison
  2. James Galusha
  3. Aaron Leland
  4. William Slade, Jr.
  5. Pliny Smith
  6. Timothy Stanley

Virginia

See main article: 1820 United States presidential election in Virginia. All 25 of Virginia's electors voted for Monroe and Tompkins.

  1. Branch T. Archer
  2. William Armstrong
  3. Samuel Blackburn
  4. William Brockenbrough
  5. John T. Brook
  6. Thomas Brown
  7. John Edie
  8. Charles H. Graves
  9. Hugh Holmes
  10. William C. Holt
  11. Armistead Hoomes
  12. James Hunter
  13. William Jones
  14. Joseph Martin
  15. John Pegram
  16. John Purnall
    1. William Cabell Rives Andrew Russell
  17. Archibald Rutherford
  18. Robert Shields
  19. Robert B. Stark
  20. Archibald Stuart
  21. John Taliaferro
  22. Robert Taylor
  23. Charles Yancey

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: A New Nation Votes . elections.lib.tufts.edu . 14 February 2024.
  3. Web site: Maskell . Jack . Halstead . T. J. . Welborn . Angie . Electoral Vote Counts in Congress: Survey of Certain Congressional Practices . EveryCRSReport.com . . 14 February 2024 . December 13, 2000.
  4. Book: United States Congress . Act of March 6, ch. 23, vol. 3 . United States Statutes at Large . August 9, 2006 . 1820 . 545–548.
  5. Book: U.S. House of Representatives . Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States . 1820 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 235 . 14 February 2024 . en.
  6. News: DEATH is in itself at all times awful... . 14 February 2024 . Natchez Gazette . 16 December 1820 . 2.
  7. Web site: A New Nation Votes . elections.lib.tufts.edu . 14 February 2024.
  8. Book: Tennessee Blue Book and Official Directory . 1890 . Secretary of State . 14 February 2024 . en.
  9. News: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION . 14 February 2024 . The Nashville Gazette . 16 December 1820 . 3.