Declaration by President of Senate of the results of the election for President and Vice President of the United States
2/8/1837
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Martin Van Buren was elected President but the Vice President was not determined.
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It therefore that “were the votes of Michigan to be counted, the result would be for Martin Van Buren of New York for President of the United States [signed] 170 votes; if not counted, for Martin Van Buren of New York for President of the United States [signed] 167 votes: but in either event Martin Van Buren of New York is elected President of the United States,” and I, do therefore declare, that Martin Van Buren of New York, having a majority of the whole number of the Electoral votes, is duly elected President of the United States, for four years, commencing with the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty seven.And it also appears that were the votes of Michigan to be counted the highest number of votes for Vice President of the United States would be [signed] 147, and if not counted the highest number would be 144 votes: but in either event no person has a majority of the Electoral votes as Vice President of the United States, and I, do therefore declare, that no person having a majority of the whole number of Electoral votes, as Vice President of the United States, an election to that Office has not been effected, that Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, and Francis Granger of New York, are the two highest on the list of Electoral votes, and that it now devolves on the Senate of the United States, as provided in the Constitution, from these persons, to elect a Vice President of the United States.
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National Archives Identifier: 306199
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