United States presidential election of 1832
United States government
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...