condescending. 1  1 : to stoop to the level of someone considered less important These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person â¦ â Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer. 2  2 : to grant favors with a show of being better than others She only condescended to speak to me because she needed something.
Jackson was renominated to run for President in 1825, three years before the next election. John C. Calhoun was his Vice President. The party became known as the Democrats at this time. He ran against incumbent John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party.
On March 4, 1823, Andrew Jackson was elected senator of Tennessee. The next year, he ran for the Presidency of the United States. His opponent in the election was John Quincy Adams. Neither Jackson nor Adams won the majority vote, and the election was to be determined in the House of Representatives.