No candidate having received a majority of the votes for President, the House of Representatives elected JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. See p. 120. No candidate for Vice-President having received a majority of the votes cast, the Senate elected R. M. Johnson Vice-President. [HISTORY OF CONVENTIONS-Continued from page 263.] responded to their names at roll-call, 64 of whom voted for Mr. Crawford, as the Republican nominee for President. This nomination was very extensively repudiated throughout the country, and three competing Republican candidates were brought into the field through legislative and other machinery, viz., Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and John Quincy Adams. The result of this famous "scrub-race" for the Presidency was, that no one was elected by the people, Gen. Jackson receiving 99 electoral votes, Mr. Adams 84, Mr. Crawford 41, and Mr. Clay 37. The election then devolved on the House of Representatives, when Mr. Adams was chosen, receiving the votes of 13 States, against 7 for Gen. Jackson and 4 for Mr. Crawford. This was the end of "King Caucus." Gen. Jackson was immediately thereafter put in nomination for the ensuing term by the Legislature of Tennessee, having only Mr. Adams for an opponent in 1828, when he was elected by a decided majority, receiving 178 electoral votes, to 83 for Mr. Adams. The first political National Convention in this country of which we have any record was held at Philadelphia in September, 1830, styled the United States AntiMasonic Convention. It was composed of 56 delegates. Francis Granger, of New York, presided, but no business was transacted. In compliance with its call, a National Anti-Masonic Convention was held at Baltimore in September, 1831, which nominated William Wirt, of Maryland, for President, and Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President. [Continned on page 273.] |