Before the election of 1824, the United States was at the tail end of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time when political partisanship was low and one party, the Democratic-Republicans ...

The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

Biden is one of those presidents. After his victory in the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams went on to serve one term, failing to be reelected in 1828 over Andrew Jackson. Adams had bested ...