December 1 1824 – The United States House of Representatives is Forced to Decide the Presidential Election

December 1 1824 – The United States House of Representatives is Forced to Decide the Presidential ElectionRate this post *Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Political battles are frequently close calls and, in the United States, only one presidential election has not been decided by the voters themselves — the battle between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. With none of the four candidates able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, the United States House of Representatives convened to decide the winner on December 1, 1824. Twenty years before, the Constitution of the United States had been altered to reflect a new means of deciding […]