7 Interesting Facts From Past Presidential Elections

The 2016 Presidential election will go down as one of the more contentious of races but not the ugliest –  that fact is saved for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.  With the election between the two ending in a tie, Alexander Hamilton, treasury secretary at the time, used his influence to sway the tie breaking vote towards Jefferson positioning Burr as Vice President.  Burr, while still in office killed Hamilton three years later in a duel (played out brilliantly in the Broadway show Hamilton!). Presidential elections brew the best, the worst and the weirdest of facts… we share a few of them here.