John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
February 9th 1825: John Quincy Adams elected
On this day in 1825, the disputed presidential election of 1824 was resolved when the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as the sixth President of the United States. No presidential candidate in that election won a majority of Electoral College votes and so, as specified in the Constitution, the decision came to Congress. Despite Andrew Jackson winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote, the third candidate Henry Clay agreed to transfer his electoral votes to John Quincy Adams, which handed Adams the Presidency. Clay was then made Secretary of State, which Jackson and his legions of loyal supporters criticised as a ‘Corrupt Bargain’. Jackson eventually won the presidency in 1828, capitalising on the vote of the ordinary man, which led to the period being known as ‘Jacksonian Democracy’. Jackson pursued several aggressive policies as President, including a violent ‘Indian Removal’ programme, threatening military action against South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis, and attacking the national banking system.
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