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Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William Crawford were the primary contenders for the presidency. The result of the election was inconclusive, as no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote. In the election for vice president, John C. Calhoun was elected with a comfortable majority of the vote.
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 ...
She became ill and died on December 22, 1828. Jackson accused the Adams campaign, and Henry Clay even more so, of causing her death, saying, "I can and do forgive all my enemies. But those vile wretches who have slandered her must look to God for mercy." [21] 1829 caricature by Robert Cruikshank of U.S. President Andrew Jackson's inauguration
In the 1824 presidential election, five major candidates emerged: Clay, Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and John C. Calhoun, although Calhoun dropped out to run for the vice presidency. In the new state of Missouri , Crawford had little support, Clay was the popular favorite, Jackson was popular in rural areas, and Adams had some ...
Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1993) Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822-1832 (1981), detailed biography; Remini, Robert V. "Election of 1832." in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections (1968) vol 1 pp 494–516, Detailed coverage plus primary source
Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia. [2] ... Andrew Jackson defeated Clay in the 1832 election.
In early 1832, the president of the B.U.S., Nicholas Biddle, in alliance with the National Republicans under Senators Henry Clay (Kentucky) and Daniel Webster (Massachusetts), submitted an application for a renewal of the Bank's twenty-year charter four years before the charter was set to expire, intending to pressure Jackson into making a ...
Pennsylvania voted for Andrew Jackson over John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Jackson won Pennsylvania by a wide margin of 64.54%. This is the only time any presidential candidate has swept every Pennsylvania county.