Frodo
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« on: December 31, 2021, 06:06:50 PM » |
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« edited: December 31, 2021, 06:09:58 PM by Frodo »
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John C. Calhoun served as War Secretary through James Monroe's presidency. Let's suppose that Daniel Tompkins of New York (who was Vice-President) chose not to run again in the 1820 election as Monroe's running-mate due to his poor physical and financial health (also he was a drunkard), and was replaced by a young John C. Calhoun who at this time was a nationalist and a proponent of a strong federal government with a program of national improvements that would encourage economic modernization, not unlike the American System that Henry Clay and the later Whig Party advocated. President James Monroe follows tradition and does not run for re-election in 1824, leaving Vice-President John C. Calhoun as the front-runner.
With Calhoun in a much stronger position to run for President than in OTL, how would the election of 1824 have gone? Would General Andrew Jackson still have run?
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