John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy. "You came into life with ... a corrupt bargain and vowed to beat him in 1828, which he did. In his one term as president, Adams ...

Jackson vows to unseat Adams in 1828, beginning an era of political rancor. As of fall 1823, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Speaker of the House Henry Clay, Secretary of the Treasury ...

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

Donald Trump’s populism echoes other anti-establishment campaigns, including Andrew Jackson’s 1828 run against John Quincy Adams’s “corrupt bargain,” William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 silv ...

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

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

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the “Corrupt Bargain” election of 1824. Challenges In Congress, “Whigs,” as ...

Close, chaotic, and contested elections have long been a recurring part of American politics. I’ve always been drawn to that ...

The use of campaign merchandise to connect with the public has been a U.S. tradition since the 1828 presidential race between ...

It's a rare phenomenon to win the presidency but not the popular vote. But it has happened twice in the past seven elections.

The use of campaign merchandise to connect with the public has been a U.S. tradition since the 1828 presidential race between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Political signs have grown more ...