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Henry Clay was a major candidate on three unsuccessful occasions, promoting his American System against Andrew Jackson and the Democrats.

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Although Andrew Jackson won the popular vote, the House of Representatives denied him the presidency in 1825 by supporting rival John Quincy Adams.

Congressional compromise awarded disputed electoral votes from three Southern states to Rutherford B. Hayes and ended Reconstruction in the South.

Miscalculating the mood of the American voter, Henry Clay was his own worst enemy when it came to running a successful presidential campaign.

John Quincy Adams, elected President in 1824 as a Democratic-Republican, was a member, during his long political career, of no less than five political parties.

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