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2/9/2006, 06:36 AM
February 9, 1825 Presidential election decided in the House
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John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States
As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, on this day 181 years go, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States.
Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States. This was the first time in American history the son of a former president pursued the presidency in a national campaign. John Quincy Adams was a Harvard educated lawyer from Braintree, Massachusetts. He had been Secretary of State under James Monroe and a senator from Massachusetts. Born in 1767, he died in 1848 in Washington.
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Adams photographed in 1824
In the 1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total, were necessary to elect a candidate president. Although it had no bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for the first time in this election.
On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Virginia won 37 electoral votes.
As dictated by the U.S. Constitution, the presidential election was then turned over to the House of Representatives. The 12th Amendment states that if no electoral majority is won, only the three candidates who receive the most popular votes will be considered in the House.
Representative Henry Clay, who was disqualified from the House vote as a fourth-place candidate, agreed to use his influence to have John Quincy Adams elected. Clay and Adams were both members of a loose coalition in Congress that by 1828 became known as the National Republicans, while Jackson's supporters were later organized into the Democratic Party.
Thanks to Clay's backing, on February 9, 1825, the House elected Adams as president of the United States. When Adams then appointed Clay to the top Cabinet post of secretary of state, Jackson and his supporters derided the appointment as the fulfillment of a corrupt bargain.
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One more pic of Adams, this time the follicly-challenged politician is depicted as a young man around 1800, 25 years before his winning the presidency
With little popular support, Adams' time in the White House was for the most part ineffectual, and the so-called Corrupt Bargain continued to haunt his administration. In 1828, he was defeated in his reelection bid by Andrew Jackson, who received more than twice as many electoral votes than Adams.
After his re-election loss In 1830, Adams was elected to Congress as the representative of the 12th District in Massachusetts. He was outspoken about nationalism and abolition of slavery. He attempted to introduce amendments to the Constitution in 1839 which would prevent any person born in the U.S. from being born a slave.
He became involved as a defense lawyer for the Amistad Africans in writings of late 1839 forward. He eventually joined the team defending the Africans and helped win their freedom in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He remained in Congress until 1848, when he was stricken on the floor of the House of Representatives and died.
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The 1997 Speilberg film featured Sir Anthony Hopkins in the role of John Quincy Adams -- its quite good and worth a look
A movie was made about the Amistad affair in which John Quincy Adams, lawyer for the Africans on trial for murder who had rebelled against their captors aboard the slave ship Amistad . Historians are fairly unanimous in the view that Adams' superb defense led to the acquital of the Africans.
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John Quincy Adams' grave marker
John Quincy Adams is buried alongside his father in the crypt beneath the United First Parish Church, in Quincy, Massachusetts. This is one of only 3 locations where two U.S. presidents are buried at the same site. The other two locations are Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia (William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy), and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia (James Monroe and John Tyler).
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John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States
As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, on this day 181 years go, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States.
Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States. This was the first time in American history the son of a former president pursued the presidency in a national campaign. John Quincy Adams was a Harvard educated lawyer from Braintree, Massachusetts. He had been Secretary of State under James Monroe and a senator from Massachusetts. Born in 1767, he died in 1848 in Washington.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6522/quincyadams18242qn.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Adams photographed in 1824
In the 1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total, were necessary to elect a candidate president. Although it had no bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for the first time in this election.
On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Virginia won 37 electoral votes.
As dictated by the U.S. Constitution, the presidential election was then turned over to the House of Representatives. The 12th Amendment states that if no electoral majority is won, only the three candidates who receive the most popular votes will be considered in the House.
Representative Henry Clay, who was disqualified from the House vote as a fourth-place candidate, agreed to use his influence to have John Quincy Adams elected. Clay and Adams were both members of a loose coalition in Congress that by 1828 became known as the National Republicans, while Jackson's supporters were later organized into the Democratic Party.
Thanks to Clay's backing, on February 9, 1825, the House elected Adams as president of the United States. When Adams then appointed Clay to the top Cabinet post of secretary of state, Jackson and his supporters derided the appointment as the fulfillment of a corrupt bargain.
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4268/quincyadams7bj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
One more pic of Adams, this time the follicly-challenged politician is depicted as a young man around 1800, 25 years before his winning the presidency
With little popular support, Adams' time in the White House was for the most part ineffectual, and the so-called Corrupt Bargain continued to haunt his administration. In 1828, he was defeated in his reelection bid by Andrew Jackson, who received more than twice as many electoral votes than Adams.
After his re-election loss In 1830, Adams was elected to Congress as the representative of the 12th District in Massachusetts. He was outspoken about nationalism and abolition of slavery. He attempted to introduce amendments to the Constitution in 1839 which would prevent any person born in the U.S. from being born a slave.
He became involved as a defense lawyer for the Amistad Africans in writings of late 1839 forward. He eventually joined the team defending the Africans and helped win their freedom in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He remained in Congress until 1848, when he was stricken on the floor of the House of Representatives and died.
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1986/quincyamistad014em.gif (http://imageshack.us)
The 1997 Speilberg film featured Sir Anthony Hopkins in the role of John Quincy Adams -- its quite good and worth a look
A movie was made about the Amistad affair in which John Quincy Adams, lawyer for the Africans on trial for murder who had rebelled against their captors aboard the slave ship Amistad . Historians are fairly unanimous in the view that Adams' superb defense led to the acquital of the Africans.
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6449/quincy06adamsgravesitequincyma.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
John Quincy Adams' grave marker
John Quincy Adams is buried alongside his father in the crypt beneath the United First Parish Church, in Quincy, Massachusetts. This is one of only 3 locations where two U.S. presidents are buried at the same site. The other two locations are Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia (William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy), and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia (James Monroe and John Tyler).
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