Author Bob Withers talked about the trains that played a part in the lives of Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. He’s the author of The President Travels by Train: Politics and Pullmans.

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the “Corrupt Bargain” election of 1824. Challenges In Congress, “Whigs,” as ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John ... Adams did not, as powerful new candidates appeared, reflecting sharp political division in the country. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee ...

it will have to shift into overdrive to surpass the sheer savagery of John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson. The story begins 200 years ago. The 1824 election was a political prize fight between ...

Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829, stands sandwiched between the eight-year administrations of James Monroe and Andrew Jackson, men of far greater renown. John Quincy Adams was ...

John Quincy Adams really wanted ... There were four candidates: Adams of Massachusetts, Henry Clay of Kentucky, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, and William H. Crawford of Georgia.

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 ...

When John Quincy Adams left the presidency, defeated after one term, he was the least popular commander-in-chief since his father. Beaten by Andrew Jackson in 1828, former President Adams thought ...

John Quincy Adams had seen this day coming for years ... in all their ignorant majesty, had chosen: Andrew Jackson. The morning of Adams' defeat should have been the morning of Jackson's greatest ...

Only three candidates—Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon ... (each state casting a single ballot) in which John Quincy Adams handily outdistanced the General 13 to 7 (Secretary of the Treasury ...