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Adams Vs Jackson

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In the United States presidential election of 1828 John Quincy Adams, the current president and member of the National Republican Party, was running for re-election against Andrew Jackson, a former Democratic-Republican turned Democrat. This election was a very personal one, as Jackson and Adams had a tense past. Jackson had also run against Adams four years earlier in 1824, and though he had won the plurality of the popular vote and the electoral college, he lost the contingent election in the House of Representatives (Hogan, Campaigns and Elections, 2017). After this loss Jackson and his supporters accused Adams of having a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay, in which Clay helped Adams win the contingent election in return for a position …show more content…

Andrew Jackson was the first man to be elected to the House of Representatives for the new state of Tennessee in 1796 (History, 2009). He was elected as Senator in 1797, from which he resigned a year later. Jackson was then elected as a judge, and also went on to lead the state militia in the War of 1812 (History, 2009). John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States. While his father was president, he made his son minister to Prussia (which is modern day Germany) (History, 2009). He was then elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1802 and the U.S. Senate in 1803 (History, 2009). After resigning from the Senate in 1808, Adams was called to work as a diplomat, and he helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 (History, 2009). The difference between Jackson and Adams’ roles in the War of 1812 (military leader vs diplomat) is a poignant example of the difference in their personalities and policies as a …show more content…

Jackson's supporters claimed that these nasty remarks about his marriage and directed towards his wife (calling her an "adulteress" and a "profligate woman" (Boissoneault, 2015)) were one cause of her death just after Jackson's inauguration (First Lady Biography). Adams’ supporters also attacked his violent tendencies and aggressive attitude, claiming he was too hot-headed to handle a job as president (Feller, Campaigns and Elections, 2017). On the other hand, Jackson’s supporters attacked Adams’ past as part of the political elite, calling him a corruptionist and aristrocrat (Feller, Campaigns and Elections,

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