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United States presidential election of 1832
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The election results of 1832 U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson Henry Clay William Wirt John Floyd Map of the United States showing the results of the 1832 presidential election by state, with states color-coded by winning candidate: blue for Jackson (Democratic), red for Clay (National Republican), brown for Floyd (Nullifiers), and tan for Wirt (Anti-Masonic). Electoral vote counts are displayed within each state, and a U.S. flag is faintly visible in the background.
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Richard Pallardy
Richard Pallardy received a B.A. in English from Illinois State University in 2005. He was a research editor with Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and worked on Britannica Blog from 2010...
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United States presidential election of 1832, American presidential election held in 1832, in which Democratic incumbent Andrew Jackson defeated National Republican candidate Henry Clay with 219 electoral votes to Clay’s 49. Though Jackson was still a popular leader as he approached the end of his first term in office, his administration was fractured by a personal conflict with his vice president, John C. Calhoun. His advocacy of the dissolution of the electoral college and of...

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