Question
Edmund Rucker cast Tennessee's votes at a convention for this election despite not being a delegate, causing "Ruckerize" to become a byword for political skulduggery. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this election, which saw Willie P. Mangum run in South Carolina. Francis Granger lost this election’s vice presidency in a Senate vote caused by the only invocation of the Twelfth Amendment.
ANSWER: election of 1836 [prompt on 36]
[10e] The 1835 DNC nominated this man for president; he won the 1836 election before losing to William Henry Harrison in 1840.
ANSWER: Martin van Buren
[10m] The Whigs ran four candidates in the 1836 election, including this man in Massachusetts, to deny van Buren an Electoral College majority. This man referred to “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable” in a debate with Robert Hayne.
ANSWER: Daniel Webster
<History - American History>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 67% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Princeton | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | Lehigh A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gatherer | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU C | Bard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Lehigh B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |