After the presidential election of 1876 was stolen from former New York State Governor Samuel J. Tilden, he addressed a civic group in Manhattan, and, with an equanimity that would today seem ...

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Tilden (1876),Grover Cleveland (1888), Al Gore (2000), and Hillary Clinton (2016) — won the popular vote but lost the election in the Electoral College. In other words, more than 10% of our ...

Lautenberg holds the record for the most general election victories ... New Jersey’s electoral votes unsuccessful presidential candidates: McClellan (1864), Seymour (1868), Samuel Tilden against ...

On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, a single-game ...

Capitol Men, the fine new book by Philip Dray, tells the story of the men who became the first black Congressmen in the ...

1807: Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808. On the same day, William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland becomes Prime Minister for the second time after the fall of ...

Democratic vice presidential nominee did not rule out a 2028 presidential run in an interview with the New Yorker.

The Justice Department on Monday filed a highly unusual motion stating its intent to review a state-level conviction of a Trump ally who was sentenced to nine years in prison for leading a security ...

A vast majority of 2024 races for Congress and state legislatures were decided by low-turnout or meaningless primaries. The ...

TBILISI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A presidential election held on Sunday in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia produced no clear winner, setting up a second round between the top two candidates ...