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 ...

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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 ...