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Mudslinging By: Kevin Jenkins. United States presidential election, 1828 Andrew Jackson Vs. John Quincy Adams.

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1 Mudslinging By: Kevin Jenkins

2 United States presidential election, 1828 Andrew Jackson Vs. John Quincy Adams

3 Adams Adams was accused of, while serving as Minister of Russia, surrendering an American servant girl to the appetites of the Czar. He was also accused of using government funds for gambling.

4 Jackson When Jackson got married his wife had already had a husband and thought the divorce was finalized but it wasn’t. So he remarried her to make the marriage legal and Adams used this to attack his opponent saying, “Ought a convicted adulteress and her paramour husband to be placed in the highest offices of this free and Christian land?”


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