{"id":73881,"date":"2016-10-08T05:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73881"},"modified":"2016-10-06T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:49:38","slug":"tom-henry-addresses-contested-presidential-elections-in-opl-talk-oct-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73881","title":{"rendered":"Tom Henry addresses contested presidential elections in OPL talk Oct. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Historian and stimulating lecturer Tom Henry visits Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 15,<\/span>\u00a0at 11 a.m.<\/span> to deliver a timely talk on U.S. presidential elections that were hotly contested even after the elections were over.<\/p>\n

Henry will look at three presidential elections in which the system failed and little known provisions of the U.S. Constitution had to come into play: the 1800 election in which the presidential candidate, Thomas Jefferson, tied in the Electoral College vote with his own Republican Party vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr; the 1876 race between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes that ended up with a stymied Electoral College and the inauguration of the loser; and the 2000 election that challenged Florida\u2019s electoral votes and ended with the Supreme Court as the decision-maker between George W. Bush and Al Gore.<\/p>\n

Henry will provide the background, the sources of the bitter controversies and the consequences for the nation in the wake of these contested elections. He will also draw parallels with the current presidential race and its possible outcomes, whether in the popular vote or in the Electoral College as it is set up now.<\/p>\n

Henry, who is a retired social studies teacher at Liverpool and currently a very popular instructor in American history at Oasis Institute of Syracuse, has often lectured at the OPL, most recently last June on nasty presidential races. He has also talked at the OPL about five \u201cforgotten\u201d presidents, the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II, the role of Upstate New York volunteers in the Battle of Gettysburg and the Union\u2019s prisoner of war camp in Elmira.<\/p>\n

At Oasis, Henry regularly conducts lecture series on many facets of U.S. history, including the Civil War, presidential histories, the Supreme Court and the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Henry\u2019s upcoming lecture on contentious presidential elections is free and open to all. For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 315-363-3050<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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