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 ...

Contentious elections are nothing new. In 1824, drama rippled throughout young America as President John Quincy Adams was confirmed to President by a vote from the U.S. House of Representatives ...

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.

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 Harris ...

We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens. Yes, there can be a tie in the Electoral College. We VERIFY what happens and who chooses the president in this scenario.

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.

Like Jackson, Trump reshaped his party. In many ways, though, Trump more closely resembles Jackson than the scandal-plagued Nixon. Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election ...

The "first party system," defined by the tug-of-war between Federalists and anti-Federalists, lasted about 30 years, from George Washington's presidency to the 1824 election.

We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens. Yes, there can be a tie in the Electoral College. We VERIFY what happens and who chooses the president in this scenario.

We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens. Yes, there can be a tie in the Electoral College. We VERIFY what happens and who chooses the president in this scenario.

We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens. Yes, there can be a tie in the Electoral College. We VERIFY what happens and who chooses the president in this scenario.

We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens. Yes, there can be a tie in the Electoral College. We VERIFY what happens and who chooses the president in this scenario.