Andrew Jackson: 1829-1837
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Andrew Jackson received the majority of popular votes in the 1824 election, but it did not assure him the presidency. The majority he received in the 1828 election did secure him the post. In his first Annual Message to Congress, he recommended eliminating the electoral college. The Miller Center’s National Commission on Federal Election Reform, convened in 2001 and co-chaired by Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, looked at the mechanics of voting systems in place in the United States and recommended election reform designed to improve Americas electoral system |
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The National Commission on the Presidential Nominating Process (1982) |
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Chair: A. Linwood Holton, Jr., Governor of Virginia, 1970-1974 Commissioners: Dean Burch, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, 1969-1974 William T. Coleman, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1975-1977 (Senior Counselor, OMelveny & Myers) William Frenzel, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota, 1971-1991 Richard Gordon Hatcher, Mayor, Gary, Indiana, 1967-1987 Austin Ranney, American Enterprise Institute, Senior Staff, 1975-1985 Robert S. Strauss, U.S. Trade Representative, 1977-1979; U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union & Russian Federation, 1991 (Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld) Anne Wexler, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce, 1977-1978; Assistant to the President 1978-1981 Commission Director: Kenneth W. Thompson, Director of the Miller Center, 1978-1998 |
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