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Historical Elections I’ll Be Thinking About On Election Day 2024
While you stew in anxiety, why not read about six elections with parallels to today’s contest?
Grover Cleveland’s Nonconsecutive Terms
Cleveland’s two nonconsecutive terms are an inconvenience for historians, but they also tell us a lot about the Democratic Party of the Gilded Age.
Presidents Who Stepped Aside
Why do you ask?
1828: John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson, II
President John Quincy Adams faced an angry Democratic Party ready for a rematch. Was there anything he could have done to stop them?
1824: John Quincy Adams vs. William H. Crawford vs. Henry Clay vs. Andrew Jackson
To Jackson supporters, this election represented everything that was wrong with the corrupt government. Could there have been another outcome?
Election Tuesdays 