The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

Before the election of 1824 ... but his political career continued after his defeat by Jackson in 1828. In 1830 Adams returned to Washington, D.C., serving in the House of Representatives.

However, after Adams lost the 1828 election to Jackson, his lame-duck nomination of Robert Crittenden in December 1828 (to replace Trimble, who had died suddenly in August) was tabled by the Senate.

Twenty consecutive elections with comfortable margins for all but one, followed by seven consecutive close outcomes, could be ...

She notes that John Quincy Adams' presidential campaigns ... the Massachusetts Journal thundered in an 1828 editorial. Throughout the election, Jackson tried to shield Rachel, who already loathed ...

In the United States, the person elected president is not always the candidate that received the most total votes in an ...

It has been bitterly partisan and rhetorically unhinged—but so was the 1800 contest between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ... election was stolen from him—reprising Andrew Jackson in 1828.

Use of campaign merchandise to connect with the public has been a tradition since the 1828 race between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

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Election Day has passed, and the feelings of many can be summed up by the word “relief.” It appears, thankfully, that we will ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

Ahead of the November general election, Adams County needs to hire up to 600 election workers. In the midst of the hiring, election officials are prioritizing diversifying their recruits ...