If you thought today’s politics of attack ads, mud-slinging and character assassination are dreadful, you should’ve witnessed the election of 1828, the ugliest in America’s history.

Description. Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem discussed the results of the 1828 presidential election, which saw Andrew Jackson elected to his first term.

The 1824 election would thus be a strange hybrid: ... Jackson gets 7, and Crawford takes 4. Jackson vows to unseat Adams in 1828, beginning an era of political rancor. The candidates.

The election of Donald Trump was a surprise and ... despair of well-bred and well-educated Americans ever since he defeated the supremely gifted John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election.

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the ...

Around the time the 14th Amendment was written, Webster's 1828 dictionary defined "insurrection" broadly. Use that to determine if Trump qualifies for the ballot.