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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 ...
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 ... The vote was tied between Jackson and Sevier, ... while Harrison's war record was glorified, ...
Andrew Jackson John Q. Adams William H. Crawford Henry Clay John C. Calhoun 182 99 74 2 7 Nathan Sanford 30 – – 3 27 Nathaniel Macon 24 – – 24 – Andrew Jackson 13 – 9 1 3 Martin Van Buren 9 – – 9 – Henry Clay 2 – – 2 – (No vote for vice president) 1 – 1 – – Total 261 99 84 41 37
Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson, served as the president's personal secretary, and wife, Emily, acted as the White House hostess. [26] Jackson's inaugural cabinet suffered from bitter partisanship and gossip, especially between Eaton, Vice President John C. Calhoun, and Van Buren. By mid-1831, all except Barry (and Calhoun) had ...
In the presidential election of 1824, Andrew Jackson received a plurality, but not a majority, of electoral votes cast. The election was thrown to the House, and John Quincy Adams was elected president. A deep rivalry resulted between Andrew Jackson and House Speaker Henry Clay, who had also been a candidate in the election.
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 ...
For president, New York's electors cast 26 votes for John Quincy Adams, 5 votes for William H. Crawford, 4 votes for Henry Clay, and 1 vote for Andrew Jackson. For vice president, they cast 29 votes for John C. Calhoun and 7 for Nathan Sanford.
Of these, Jackson, Cleveland, and Roosevelt, also won the popular vote in at least three elections. Jackson was the second of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections, the other four are James Madison in 1812 , Grover Cleveland in 1892 , Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and ...