It Was 1824

Yesterday's "Which Election Was It" post is from the presidential contest of 1824. From Wikipedia:

In the presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president on February 9, 1825 after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The previous few years had seen a one-party government in the United States, as the Federalist Party had dissolved, leaving only the Democratic-Republican Party. In the 1824 election, the Democratic-Republicans splintered and four candidates sought the presidency under the party banner. The faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the Whig Party.

When no candidate received the necessary 131 electoral votes to claim victory, the presidential election was thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives. As per the Constitution's Twelfth Amendment, only the top three candidates in the Electoral College were candidates in the House election: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William Harris Crawford. Left out was Henry Clay, who just happened to be Speaker of the House. Clay detested Jackson and threw his support to Adams. Thus, John Quincy Adams, son of the nation's second president, was elected by the United States House of Representatives as it's sixth president on February 9, 1825, on the first ballot.