Jackson both won the popular vote and got the most votes in the electoral college, but lost the election anyway.

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... dinners in search of less controversial standard-bearers. The Democratic Party is wrestling with Jackson's support of slavery and his ruthless ...

The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... While his use of the symbol died down, the donkey would later become a symbol of the new Democratic Party. Supporters of Adams accused Jackson of being a tyrant who ...

We now arrive at “Old Hickory” - Andrew Jackson. Prior to becoming the seventh president Jackson was the first man elected to ...

Andrew Jackson, a charismatic war hero ... of “substituting party principle for personal preference”: the Democratic Party, then also known as the Democracy. Under Van Buren’s control ...

Its opponents become the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1828, Andrew Jackson starts the Democratic Party and is its first elected president.

and Andrew Jackson—sought the presidency. The ensuing battles would transform politics, leading to a new democratic culture as well as to the Democratic Party. According to the 1820 census ...

In 1836 they threw their support behind Andrew Jackson's successor ... Breckenridge The Democratic Party split completely along sectional lines. Southern Democrats walked out of the Democratic ...

As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of ... own and a decisive victory at New Orleans led by Andrew Jackson (technically after an end to the war had been ...

Broadcasting from the Democratic ... Jesse Jackson, who will be celebrated at the Democratic Convention, and how race and identity politics have become so important in the Democratic Party.