Plumer never mentioned Washington in his speech explaining
his vote to the other New Hampshire electors.
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Plumer also refused to vote for Monroe's vice president,
Daniel Tompkins, because Plumer thought he had previously“grossly neglected his duty.”.
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This is today widely claimed to have been because said voter,
William Plumer, supposedly felt no President except Washington should
have the honor of a unanimous vote.
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The bigger nail in the coffin to this oft-repeated notion is that Plumer himself explicitly gave his reason for not voting for
Monroe because he thought Monroe had behaved improperly in his first term.