Candidates:Democratic-Republican: Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) and George Clinton (New York)Federalist: Charles C. Pinckney (South Carolina) and Rufus King (New York) Election Results: Jefferson and Clinton: 162 electoral votes. Pinckney and King: 14 electoral votes. Summary: Thomas Jefferson, as a statesman, scholar, and president, was a man of contradictions. The most overexposed of these is that while … Continue reading Election of 1804: The Rise of the Democratic Republicans and the Fall of the Federalists