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Three events in American political history have been called [citation needed] a corrupt bargain: the 1824 United States presidential election, the Compromise of 1877, and Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon. In all cases, Congress or the President acted against the most clearly defined legal course of action at the time, although in no ...
The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race (University Press of Kansas, 2015) xiv, 354 pp. Murphy, Sharon Ann. "A Not-So-Corrupt Bargain". Review of The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson and 1824's Five-Horse Race by Donald Ratcliffe. Common-place, Vol. 16, No. 4.
Jackson, who had finished with the most electoral votes in the initial run, considered Adams' election a "corrupt bargain". Scott's decision to vote for Adams proved unpopular in Missouri, and he lost his bid for re-election in 1826. Jackson defeated Adams in the 1828 United States presidential election.
Jackson partisans labeled this a "corrupt bargain.") [7] [8] [9] Jackson's plurality was a result of the Three-fifths Compromise, which let slave states count 60% of its enslaved population in calculating its House representation, thus inflating their share of Electoral College votes. If only the free population of states had been counted ...
In 1824, political parties were very weak, ... Jackson cried foul, believing the election was stolen by a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Clay. [8]
You can imagine the howls over the “corrupt bargain” from Jackson’s supporters. Our forefathers couldn’t be counted on to take the high road, either. ... a bit earlier in 1824, some of ...
President Adams then appointed Clay to the prestigious position of secretary of state; as a result, critics alleged that the two had agreed to a "corrupt bargain". Despite receiving support from Clay and other National Republicans, Adams was defeated by Democrat Andrew Jackson in the 1828 presidential election. Clay won election to the Senate ...
These politics helped drive the surprising outcome that Jackson partisans would dub the “Corrupt Bargain.” ... In 1824, the country was emerging from a period of broad political unity, with ...