john quincy adams was the candidate who won the 1824 presidential election.
john quincy adams was the candidate who won the 1824 presidential election.
the candidate who won the 1824 presidential election was?
john quincy adams
upon returning to the united states, gallatin agreed to serve as william h. crawford's running mate in the 1824 presidential election, but later withdrew from the race at crawford's request. crawford had originally hoped that gallatin's presence on the ticket would help him win the support of pennsylvania voters, but the emergence of general andrew jackson as a presidential contender caused crawford to refocus his campaign on other states. gallatin had never wanted the role and was humiliated when he was forced to withdraw from the race. he was alarmed at the possibility jackson might win, as he saw jackson as "an honest man and the idol of the worshippers of military glory, but from incapacity, military habits, and habitual disregard of laws and constitutional provisions, altogether unfit for the office." ultimately, john quincy adams won the 1824 presidential election in a contingent election held in the house of representatives. gallatin and his wife returned to friendship hill after the presidential election, living there until 1826. that year, gallatin accepted appointment as ambassador to britain. after negotiating an extension of the anglo-american control of oregon country, gallatin returned to the united states in november 1827.
albert gallatin
the two current major parties are the democratic party and the republican party. at various points prior to the american civil war, the federalist party, the democratic-republican party, the national republican party, and the whig party were major parties. these six parties have nominated candidates in the vast majority of presidential elections, but six presidential elections deviate from the normal pattern of two major party candidates. there were no major party candidates for president in the presidential election of 1789 and the presidential election of 1792, both of which were won by george washington. in the 1812 presidential election, dewitt clinton served as the de facto federalist nominee even though he was a member of the democratic-republican party; clinton was defeated by democratic-republican president james madison. in the presidential election of 1820, incumbent president james monroe of the democratic-republican party effectively ran unopposed. in the 1824 presidential election, four democratic-republicans competed in multiple states in the general election as the party was unable to agree on a single nominee. similarly, in the presidential election of 1836, the whig party did not unify around a single candidate and two different whig candidates competed in multiple states in the general election.
list of unsuccessful major party candidates for president of the united states