The election of 1800 marked the first time that a US president was chosen by the House of Representatives.
The members of the Electoral College could vote only for the president, in such a way that the vice president would be the person with the second highest number of votes. The Democratic-Republican plan in favor of Jefferson and not Aaron Burr, who was second in the party, was botched and the result was a tie in the electoral vote. That was when the election was placed in the hands of the House of Representatives.
