A measure is the section of a musical staff that comes between two barlines. Each measure satisfies the specified time signature o f the staff. For example, a song written in 4/4 time will hold four quarter note beats per measure. A song written in 3/4 time will hold three quarter note beats in each measure.
Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 by a landslide, receiving a record 647,292 popular votes (56 percent) to 507,730 (44 percent) for the incumbent John Quincy Adams. John C. Calhoun won the vice presidency with 171 electoral votes to 83 for Richard Rush and 7 for William Smith.
Spotted Eagle is the first Native American woman to receive an electoral college vote for president. She's not the only woman to do so, however. Two of the 117 people who've received electoral college votes for president were women, the second being a woman named Hillary Clinton. Clinton got about as many electoral votes on Monday as Martin Van Buren did in his two presidential runs â and would have passed his total were it not for those faithless electors.