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About the Adams Party
The presidential election of 1824 featured four major candidates, all Democrat-Republicans: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay. Party labels during this time of transition mostly identify congressional representatives with the candidate that they supported in the election of 1824. The close election resulted in no candidate earning a majority of electoral votes, but after Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams, Adams was ultimately elected. Supporters of this bloc in the House and Senate are subsequently labeled "Adams Supporters"; while supporters of Andrew Jackson's candidacy are subsequently labeled "Jackson Supporters".
In the 1828 Presidential Election, Adams was defeated by Jackson. Adams Supporters are subsequently identified as Anti-Jacksonians until the emergence of the Second Party System, where many Adams Supporters and Anti-Jacksonians joined the Whig Party.
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