Before the election of 1824, the United States was at the tail end of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time when political partisanship was low and one party, the Democratic-Republicans ...

The 1824 election recorded the starkest negative margin, in part because that election featured four major candidates, none of whom received more than 45 percent in the national popular vote.

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 ...

The first presentation in a lecture series tied to the Adams County bicentennial celebration will take place Wednesday, Jan. 15 at John Wood Community College.