PC/WI: John Adams Vice-President again in 1800?

OTL had the Republicans fail to properly split up their votes for President and Vice-President, but is it plausible to go the other way? Too many of them cast their second vote for someone other then Burr and Adams is elected Vice-President a third time starting in 1801? What would be the effects of Adams and Jefferson switching places? Would Adams resign rather then accept that office again.
 
OTL had the Republicans fail to properly split up their votes for President and Vice-President, but is it plausible to go the other way? Too many of them cast their second vote for someone other then Burr and Adams is elected Vice-President a third time starting in 1801? What would be the effects of Adams and Jefferson switching places? Would Adams resign rather then accept that office again.


I understand he was on record as saying that he would, rather than be "demoted" in such a way.
 
I understand he was on record as saying that he would, rather than be "demoted" in such a way.

He did not enjoy being VP under George Washington, he will hate it even more working under Jefferson. The best I can see is Charles C. Pinckney or Alexander Hamilton from the Federalist being nominated as the VP in Adam's place.
 
He did not enjoy being VP under George Washington, he will hate it even more working under Jefferson. The best I can see is Charles C. Pinckney or Alexander Hamilton from the Federalist being nominated as the VP in Adam's place.

Hamilton as VP under adams? Sure, he said that Jefferson would be better than Burr which is why he voted for Jefferson in the end, but there is no way he would accept such a position.....

....this would probably end in a Hamilton-Jefferson duel.
 
Hamilton as VP under adams? Sure, he said that Jefferson would be better than Burr which is why he voted for Jefferson in the end, but there is no way he would accept such a position.....

....this would probably end in a Hamilton-Jefferson duel.

GOD NO.

I meant in 1800, Jefferson is elected President, however, Adam demands that instead of Burr, a federalist is elected as VP such as Hamilton or Charles C. Pinckney.

This would see an even stranger turn of events in Burr shots Hamilton while he is VP is this treason?

Would this lead to a new tradition of no more running mate, the two parties nominate a president and who ever loses just becomes Vice President :D

eg
President Barack Obama with VP John McCain
President George Bush with VP Al Gore
 
GOD NO.

I meant in 1800, Jefferson is elected President, however, Adam demands that instead of Burr, a federalist is elected as VP such as Hamilton or Charles C. Pinckney.

Yeah, that makes sense. But as i said, Hamilton would not go for the VP position because most likely it would end in a Jefferson-Hamilton duel. There is no way that Hamilton would serve under Jefferson in any capacity.

Pinckney is more likely, but he is usually treated as a Hamilton lackey, that is the problem.
 
Yeah, that makes sense. But as i said, Hamilton would not go for the VP position because most likely it would end in a Jefferson-Hamilton duel. There is no way that Hamilton would serve under Jefferson in any capacity.

Pinckney is more likely, but he is usually treated as a Hamilton lackey, that is the problem.

Neither Hamilton nor Jefferson would willingly serve under the other.
 
Neither Hamilton nor Jefferson would willingly serve under the other.

That is what i said.

These two people did not want to be in the same room as each other, let alone the same damn country. That is what you get when you have Jefferson the Pro-French and anti-British, and Hamilton the Pro-0british and anti-French.
 
OTL had the Republicans fail to properly split up their votes for President and Vice-President, but is it plausible to go the other way? Too many of them cast their second vote for someone other then Burr and Adams is elected Vice-President a third time starting in 1801? What would be the effects of Adams and Jefferson switching places? Would Adams resign rather then accept that office again.

"As the day of decision neared, he [Adams] spoke of the indignity of losing to Jefferson, whom he regarded as his inferior; it would be mortifying for him to lose to Pinckney, however, for he thought of him as a nobody. Adams continued to insist that he would resign if he was reelected to the vice-presidency, and once, while in a particularly black mood, he even said he would not serve if the issue had to be settled by the House of Representatives." John E. Ferling, *John Adams: A Life* (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press 1992), p. 331. https://books.google.com/books?id=1iU49o9z8osC&pg=PA331

Of course Adams could change his mind, but I doubt that he would. After all, while vice-president he had once written to his wife that "my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant Office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived..." http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17931219ja
 
While Adams was a bit of a sourpuss, surely his belief in the Government would prevent him from vacating the office and leaving the nation missing a vital seat for an entire term? If nothing else Adams could hope for some more tie-breaking votes. Or use the office as a spring board to challenge Jefferson again in 1804?
 
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