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  2. Andrew Jackson 1828 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    In 1828, Andrew Jackson, who had lost the 1824 election in a runoff in the United States House of Representatives, despite winning both the popular vote and the electoral vote by significant margins, ran for President of the United States. He had been nominated by the Tennessee state legislature in 1825, and did not face any opposition from ...

  3. 1828 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives (by the terms of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a presidential election in which no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote is decided by a contingent election in the ...

  4. 1828 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The 1828 United States elections elected the members of the 21st United States Congress.It marked the beginning of the Second Party System, and the definitive split of the Democratic-Republican Party into the Democratic Party (organized around Andrew Jackson) and the National Republican Party (organized around John Quincy Adams and opponents of Jackson).

  5. Presidency of Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia

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    The presidency of Andrew Jackson began on March 4, 1829, when Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as 7th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1837. Jackson took office after defeating incumbent President John Quincy Adams in the bitterly contested 1828 presidential election .

  6. 1828 United States presidential election in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    In January 1828, Jackson had visited New Orleans to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans in response to an invitation from the Louisiana legislature; he and his supporters financed the visit, as the legislature rejected providing any money, [1]: 147 and lingering anger against Jackson's conduct in 1815 prompted the ...

  7. Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, in 1765. [1]

  8. Corrupt bargain - Wikipedia

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    Votes in the Electoral College, 1824 The voting by the state in the House of Representatives, 1825. Note that all of Clay's states voted for Adams. After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received the majority needed of the presidential electoral votes (although Andrew Jackson had the most [1]), thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the ...

  9. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    President Andrew Jackson. The charismatic Andrew Jackson collaborated with Martin Van Buren to rally his followers in the newly formed Democratic Party. In the election of 1828, Jackson defeated Adams by an overwhelming electoral majority in the first presidential election since 1800 to mark a wholesale voter rejection of the previous ...