Arguably one of the worst was the Election of 1824. That one wasn’t settled until Feb. 9, 1825 — 200 years ago Sunday. The end of the War of 1812 brought on a strong sense of national unity ...

A political cartoon depicting a footrace for the position of president in the 1824 election Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Era of Good Feelings came to a grinding halt with the ...

From there, the election was put into the hands of the House ... decorations would be joined by campaign stickers for the 1824 candidates. “My job is to make that story clean and clear, without ...

To understand why, we need to wind the clock back, to the hotly contested presidential election of 1824. On Feb. 9, 1825, members of the House of Representatives met in an extraordinary session to ...

The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

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Prior to Bush, Illinois voters selected the eventual president in every election since 1916 (when ... s popular and electoral votes going back to 1824, which was the first opposed race voted ...