The National Republicans were a political party in the United States. The party, and its precursor factions of Adams supporters and Anti-Jacksonian politicians, existed from approximately 1825–1833.
Before the elevation of John Quincy Adams to the presidency in 1825, the Democratic-Republican Party, which had been the only truly national American political party for over a decade, began to dissolve, losing its infrastructure and identity. Its cau...
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The National Republicans were a political party in the United States. The party, and its precursor factions of Adams supporters and Anti-Jacksonian politicians, existed from approximately 1825–1833.
Before the elevation of John Quincy Adams to the presidency in 1825, the Democratic-Republican Party, which had been the only truly national American political party for over a decade, began to dissolve, losing its infrastructure and identity. Its caucuses no longer met to select candidates because now they had separate interests. After the Election of 1824, factions developed in support of Adams and in support of Andrew Jackson. Adams politicians, including most ex-Federalists (such as Daniel Webster and even Adams himself), would gradually evolve into the National Republican party, and those politicians that supported Jackson would later help form the modern Democratic Party.
The ad-hoc coalition that supported John Quincy Adams fell apart after his defeat for reelection in 1828. The...
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