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A one vote margin:
gave Oliver Cromwell control of England (1645), cost Charles I his head
(1649), placed King George I on England's throne (1714), elected
Thomas Jefferson our third president (1800), John Quincy Adams our
6th (1824), and later Rutherford B. Hayes (1876), admitted Texas to the
United States (1845), approved the Declaration of War against Mexico
(1846), made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi party (1923), saved the
Selective Service system just 12 weeks before Pearl Harbor (1941). Source.
Texas detail: A resolution favoring annexation of Texas passed the US
Senate by 27-25, paving the way for President John Tyler to approve the
resolution on March 1, 1845. A tie vote would have failed because there
was no vice president to cast a tie-breaker. One of the Yes votes was
cast by US Senator Edward Hannegan of Indiana, who was elected to the
Senate in a special election. He won that election by one vote. |