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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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---------------------Reply to mail dated 15-MAY-1986 22:40---------------------

>> James K Polk         5
>ONLY a 5????  Only one dissenting vote was cast in the electoral
>college against him; this was because the "dissenter" wanted
>Washington to be the only president to have been elected unanimously.


  This was James Monroe not James Polk.  James Polk was the First dark horse
president.   It was during the Era of Good Feeling.  The US was riding high
we had just semi-won a war with England and our economy was going like gang-
busters.  The bigger problem was the fact that the Federalist party was
following apart there was no real competition for James Monroe.

>--Lynn


 Brian Mahoney