A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1818-1820
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Frederick Douglass (Feb. 1818) to the death of William Richardson Davie (Nov. 29, 1820) there were 22 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky.
Except for Davie, all the others had yet to run for Vice-President.
Here's mosaic of this unique group of individuals and where they were between Feb. 1818-Nov. 29, 1820--
William Richardson Davie (June 20, 1756 – November 29, 1820)
VP candidate for Straight-Federalist 1812
Retired to estate "Tivoli" which is now part of the Landsford Canal State Park in Chester County, SC. Owned 116 slaves at the time of his death.
Henry Lee (February 4, 1782 – February 6, 1867)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Worked in Boston as an importer of goods from India, where he had recently returned after living there for four years.
Amos Ellmaker (February 2, 1787 - November 28, 1851)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party 1832
Lived in Harrisburg, Penn. where he served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania (an appointed position) until July 7, 1819.
Thomas Earle (April 21, 1796 – July 14, 1849)
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1840
Businessman in Philadelphia.
Thomas Morris (January 3, 1776 – December 7, 1844)
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1844
Served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives as part of the Democratic-Republican Party 1820-1821.
Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876)
VP candidate for Reform Party 1844
In 1818 his mother sold the family farm north of Pittsburgh and he moved to North Sewickley, Penn. and became an apprentice Baptist minister. In May 1819, now a full-fledged preacher, he moved to Trumbull County, Ohio and married in June, 1820.
Charles Francis Adams Sr.(August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
His father, future President John Quincy Adams, was serving as Sec. of State in the Monroe administration.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Child in upstate New York.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
A small child in Centreville, Ind., being raised in a Quaker household.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Teenager in Georgia.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
As a teenager in Philadelphia he studied medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital.
John Anthony Quitman (September 1, 1798 (or 1799) – July 17, 1858)
VP candidate for Southern Rights Party 1852
Was a teacher at Mount Airy College, Penn. while studying law. Admitted to the bar in 1820 and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio.
Samuel M. Bell
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1852
The mysterious Mr. Bell may have been a young person living in what is now West Virginia.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
Attended the US Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated 2nd in his class 1820.
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
He married and moved to Evansville, Ind. from Kentucky in 1820.
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865)
VP candidate for Constitutional Union Party 1860
Toured Europe as a Harvard professor, returning in 1819. In 1820, while still on the faculty, became editor of the North American Review.
Samuel McFarland (1795 - February 17, 1868)
VP candidate for Radical Abolitionists Party (aka Liberty Party) 1860
Sheep farmer near Washington, Penn.
Frederick Douglass (ca. February 1818 – February 20, 1895)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (aka People's Party aka Cosmo-Political Party aka National Radical Reformers) (1872)
Born into slavery under the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on a plantation in Maryland. Douglass did not know his exact date of birth and selected Feb. 14, 1818.
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
A small child in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
A small child in Montgomery County, Ky.
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party (aka American Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party aka National American Party) (1880)
A small child in Massachusetts.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
Born in 1818, Perry County, Ala.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1818 March 15 – First Seminole War: General Andrew Jackson and his American army invaded Florida.
1818 April 7 – Brooks Brothers opened its first store in New York City.
1818 May 5 – Karl Marx born (d. 1883)
1818 May 10 – Paul Revere died (b. 1735)
1818 July 3 - Lord Byron began work on his poem, Don Juan.
1818 July 31 – The first newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio published.
1818 December 3 – Illinois admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
1818 December 24 – The Christmas carol "Silent Night" (Stille Nacht) first performed in Salzburg, Austria.
1819 - Construction ceased on a US fort once it was discovered it was actually on Canadian soil in Quebec.
1819 - Andrew Jackson supposedly visited Robertson County, Tenn. in order to investigate the "Bell Witch" [any relation to Samuel Bell on our VP list?]
1819 January 2 – The Panic of 1819 began.
1819 February 22 – Spain ceded Florida to the United States
1819 May 31 – Walt Whitman born (died 1892)
1819 August 1 – Herman Melville born (died 1891)
1819 December 14 – Alabama admitted as the 22nd U.S. state
1820 January 29 - King George III died (b. 1738)
1820 - Robert Johnson supposedly ate tomatoes before a crowd of 2000 in Salem, NJ to prove the food was not poison.
1820 March - Missouri Compromise
1820 March 15 – Maine admitted as the 23rd U.S. state
1820 September 26 – Daniel Boone died (b. 1734)
1820 November - President James Monroe ran for re-election without serious opposition
