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  2. 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 ...

  3. 1824 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    On February 9, 1825, the House voted (with each state delegation casting one vote) to elect John Quincy Adams as president, ultimately giving the election to him. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Democratic-Republican Party had won six consecutive presidential elections and by 1824 was the only national political party.

  4. Contested elections in American history - Wikipedia

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    One aspect of Trump's campaign to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election was an effort to impeach the credibility of various companies involved in election administration. [31] Some media companies which editorialized in favor of Trump were later sued for defamation by companies implicated in their reporting, including Dominion Voting ...

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

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    In return for Clay's support in winning the presidency, John Quincy Adams appointed Clay as secretary of state in what Jacksonians denounced as a corrupt bargain. During Adams' administration, new party alignments appeared. Adams' followers took the name of "National Republicans", to reflect the mainstream of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Elected ...

  6. List of federal political scandals in the United States ...

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    Corrupt Bargain was a supposed bargain by John Quincy Adams with Henry Clay. (1824) [14] In the United States presidential election of 1824, in which John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives after Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes but failed to receive a majority. The matter was decided by the House of ...

  7. Andrew Jackson 1828 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    Randolph publicly stated that Jefferson became friendly to Jackson's candidacy as early as the summer of 1825, perhaps because of the "corrupt bargain" charge, and thought of Jackson as "an honest, sincere, clear-headed and strong-minded man; of the soundest political principles" and "the only hope left" to reverse the increasing powers assumed ...

  8. Nicholas Biddle - Wikipedia

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    The president was well known for his stubbornness [33] and continued to harbor resentment toward Clay from the earlier "Corrupt Bargain" accusation following the presidential election of 1824. At Biddle's direction, the Bank poured tens of thousands of dollars into a campaign to defeat Jackson in the presidential election of 1832 .

  9. American election campaigns in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Jackson in 1828 started the Second Party System by crusading against the "corrupt bargain" that had denied him the White House in 1824, and again against the Bank of the United States in 1832. [25] James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872) was the powerful editor and publisher of the New York Herald, 1835–1866. It typically had the ...