Candidates who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College are John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, George W. Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016.

Today is the 60th meeting of the Electoral College, the first being on Feb. 4, 1789. Then the law stipulated that the meetings were to occur on the first Wednesday in February.

The Electoral College convened Feb. 4, 1789, and the election results were determined. Washington took the presidential oath of office April 30 at Federal Hall in New York City, the first U.S ...

Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, ... codified in 1789.