National Republican Party
The National Republican Party was a political party in the United States that existed for a relatively brief period in the 1820s and 1830s.
Before and during John Quincy Adams ' presidency (1825–1829), the Democratic Republican Party , which had been the only truly national - that is, nationwide - party for over a decade, began to fragment. Those who supported Adams, including former federalists , were first known as Adams Republicans or anti-Jacksonians , while others sided with Andrew Jackson and founded the modern Democratic Party in 1828 .
In the presidential election of 1828 , Adams won 43.63% of all votes and 83 out of 261 electors and was defeated by Jackson. The loose coalition in support of Adams then disintegrated, whereupon Henry Clay formed the National Republicans from the anti-Jacksonians in 1830 . The National Republicans then sent Henry Clay against Jackson in the 1832 election ; Clay's defeat convinced the president that the people had given him a mandate to abolish the United States Bank . Clay received 37.42% of all votes cast, but only 49 out of 288 electors.
After the 1832 election, the National Republican Party fell apart. It was not a direct predecessor of the Republican Party , although many of its supporters later joined it. Before the founding of the Republican Party, many of its former members joined at short notice the Whigs' rallying party founded by Henry Clay , which was also joined by the anti-Freemasons and former federalists and held together by the general opposition to the Democratic Party.
Presidential candidates
- 1828: John Quincy Adams / Richard Rush (lost the election)
- 1832: Henry Clay / John Sergeant (lost the election)
See also
literature
- Dave Tarr, Bob Benenson: Elections A to Z. Fourth edition, SAGE, Los Angeles 2012, ISBN 978-0-87289-769-4 , pp. 358f.