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The United States presidential election of 1812 was the 7th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday October 30 to Wednesday December 2 1812. It took place in the shadow of the War of 1812. It featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican DeWitt Clinton nephew of Madison’s late Vice President George Clinton. The Federalist opposition threw their support behind Clinton.
