This item is openly available as part of an Open JSTOR Collection. For terms of use, please refer to our Terms & Conditions. Political Science Quarterly © 1925 The ...

On this day in 1825, the House elected Secretary of State ... to underscore his belief in the separation of church and state. In the 1824 election, Adams, a son of the second president, ran ...

It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. So what happens if no candidate reaches that required majority of the 538 total votes in the Electoral College? This white whale of the race to ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816 ...

It took until Feb. 9, 1825 for the final decision to be made ... BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images It's unlikely that our current election will become the third on this list, because it would ...

A political cartoon depicting a footrace for the position of president in the 1824 election Public domain ... ballot before the House on February 9, 1825. The Era of Good Feelings was now ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they formalized their community (called “Bluffs”) as a county, and in 1825, petitioned the ...