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    MR. PRESIDENT

    Oct 01, 2022 3 minutes
    by Stephen Currie and Andrew Matthews

    The Democratic–Republican party was the dominant U.S. political party in the first two decades of the 1800s. Its candidate won every presidential election beginning in 1800. No elections had been very close. But those easy victories hid disagreements within the party.

    Four Democratic–Republican candidates decided to run for president in 1824. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts and two others—Speaker of the House of Representatives Henry Clay of Kentucky and Secretary of the Treasury

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