Presidential Historian Richard Norton Smith discusses the process and controversy surrounding the 1824 election. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

When No Candidate Won the 1824 Presidential Election, the House of Representatives Was Given the Rare Task of Deciding the Victor A “corrupt bargain” that delivered John Quincy Adams the ...

The Election of 1824 Today, Jackson would be declared the winner. But in 1824, the rules were that a candidate needed not just more electoral votes to win, they needed a majority of electoral votes.

In the 1824 election, none of the candidates - John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and William Crawford - received a majority of votes, which led to an unprecedented situation.

In 1824, the country was emerging from a period of broad political unity, with the presidential election presaging the factionalism that would define American politics up to the Civil War.

Letter on the Presidential Election of 1824. SKIP ADVERTISEMENT. Skip to content Skip to site index ...

For just the 11th time in 200 years, a majority of Illinois voters selected in a general election the candidate who ultimately would not become president.. Though Democratic candidate Kamala ...

Join the parade! Cloverdale-Idlewild Fourth of July celebration looks at election of 1824 Charlie Colvin, Cloverdale-Idlewild Association's annual Fourth of July parade is Thursday in Montgomery ...

The Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won both the Electoral College.

After the Nov. 5 election, the electors cast their votes on Dec. 17. In 48 states, electors vote for the candidate who won their respective state. The other two states can split the vote .

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

The 1824 election was a political prize fight between two heavyweight contenders. Adams was the son of a president (and a prominent Founding Father to boot), a former congressman, ...