The 1824 Presidential election, which ran from October 26 to December 2, 1824, saw Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William Crawford run for the oval office.
John C. Calhoun was elected with a comfortable majority of the vote for Vice President.
However, none of the main contestants for the Presidency held a an electoral vote majority. On this day in 1825 the House of Representatives voted,with each state delegation casting one voted, elected John Quincy Adams as President, giving the election to him.
Andrew Jackson was a bufador, so Adams was the right choice. Unfortunately Jackson (a Democrat, I might add) would revive, and, and come back, Trump like. Indeed Trump, who is also a bufador, admires Jackson, or claims to.
For years, the local Democratic Party here had Jefferson Jackson Days, honoring the supposed founder of the party (who wasn't) and its early populist leader. Populism was a main element of the Democratic Party, like it currently is of the Republican Party, from Jackson's election through the 1980s, when Reagan's Southern Strategy co opted the Southern Democrats and Rust Belt Democrats, unfortunately. Now, the GOP is what the Southern Democratic Party had been.
One of the comforting things about knowing history, I might add, is to know that there were prior eras when we acted darned near as stupidly as we currently are.
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