A report on John Quincy Adams, Federalist Party and United States Electoral College
Initially a Federalist like his father, he won election to the presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and in the mid-1830s became affiliated with the Whig Party.
- John Quincy AdamsBecause no candidate won a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives held a contingent election, which Adams won with the support of Speaker of the House Clay, whom Adams would go on to controversially appoint as his Secretary of State.
- John Quincy AdamsIn 1796, Federalist Party candidate John Adams won the presidential election.
- United States Electoral CollegeAdams was the winner by a margin of three electoral votes and Jefferson, as the runner-up, became vice president under the system set out in the Constitution prior to the ratification of the 12th Amendment.
- Federalist PartyIn 1824, Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder from Tennessee, was similarly defeated by John Quincy Adams, a strong critic of slavery.
- United States Electoral CollegeThose Federalists such as John Quincy Adams (John Adams' own son) and Rufus King willing to work with him were rewarded with senior diplomatic posts, but there was no punishment of the opposition.
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Democratic-Republican Party
4 linksAmerican political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, agrarianism, political equality, and expansionism.
American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, agrarianism, political equality, and expansionism.
The party became increasingly dominant after the 1800 elections as the opposing Federalist Party collapsed.
Lacking an effective opposition, the Democratic-Republicans split into groups after the 1824 presidential election; one faction supported President John Quincy Adams, while the other faction backed General Andrew Jackson.
In the 1788–89 presidential election, the first such election following the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, George Washington won the votes of every member of the Electoral College.
John Adams
3 linksAmerican statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
He was the only president elected under the banner of the Federalist Party.
He and his wife generated a family of politicians, diplomats, and historians now referred to as the Adams political family, which includes their son John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
Each state's presidential electors gathered on February 4, 1789, to cast their two votes for the president.
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
3 linksThe Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president.
The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president.
It replaced the procedure provided in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, by which the Electoral College originally functioned.
In the 1796 election, John Adams, the Federalist Party presidential candidate, received votes from a majority of electors.
John Quincy Adams argued that the change from five to three gave an advantage to the people that violated the federative principle of the Constitution.
1796 United States presidential election
3 linksThe third quadrennial presidential election.
The third quadrennial presidential election.
Incumbent Vice President John Adams of the Federalist Party defeated former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party.
Under the electoral rules in place prior to the Twelfth Amendment, the members of the Electoral College each cast two votes, with no distinction made between electoral votes for president and electoral votes for vice president.
John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun were later elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans, and while Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, Lincoln ran on a combined National Union Party ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican.
1824 United States presidential election
2 linksThe tenth quadrennial presidential election.
The tenth quadrennial presidential election.
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William Crawford were the primary contenders for the presidency.
The result of the election was inconclusive, as no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote.
The previous competition between the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party collapsed after the War of 1812 due to the disintegration of the Federalists' popular appeal.
Whig Party (United States)
1 linksPolitical party that espoused traditionalist conservatism in the United States during the middle of the 19th century.
Political party that espoused traditionalist conservatism in the United States during the middle of the 19th century.
Other influential party leaders that were members of the Whigs include Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William Seward, John J. Crittenden, and John Quincy Adams.
The Whigs had some weak links to the defunct Federalist Party, but the Whig Party was not a direct successor to that party and many Whig leaders, including Henry Clay, had aligned with the rival Democratic-Republican Party.
In the 1836 presidential election, four different regional Whig candidates received electoral votes, but the party failed to defeat Jackson's chosen successor, Martin Van Buren.