How dominant were they? By 1824, the party had won six consecutive presidential elections. President James Monroe took office in 1817 and took pains to downplay party affiliations while filling ...

For all these reasons, the election of 1824 was the most confused and wide-open national political contest America had ever seen. Near the end of James Monroe’s term, the leading presidential ...

Once Monroe won their nomination in 1816, the general election against Rufus King (previously a Federalist vice-presidential candidate) was a cakewalk. Monroe's reputation for honesty, and his ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...