Andrew Jackson not President

Andrew Jackson was President of the United States from March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837.
Suppose Jackson had not run in the 1828 Presidential election.
Who might be President instead?
 
Andrew Jackson was President of the United States from March 4, to March 4, 1837.
Suppose Jackson had not run in the 1828 Presidential election.
Who might be President instead?

Well the 1828, contest would be between, incumbent President, John Q. Adams and incumbent Vice President, John C. Calhoun, against William H. Crawford and Martin Van Buren

With Martin Van Buren and Philip P. Barbour, running in 1832, against John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.
 
Well the 1828, contest would be between, incumbent President, John Q. Adams and incumbent Vice President, John C. Calhoun, against William H. Crawford and Martin Van Buren

With Martin Van Buren and Philip P. Barbour, running in 1832, against John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.

So Adams wins in 1828, with Van Buren winning in 1832.
 
Jackson has to be dead to make this plausible. In no way would he voluntarily fail to seek revenge for the "corrupt bargain"...
 
Probably retired at the Hermitage.
Retired Jackson wont work.

Jackson has to be dead to make this plausible. In no way would he voluntarily fail to seek revenge for the "corrupt bargain"...

Dead would be too easy. What if he was given a new military position that gives him enough power to stay out of politics but not to much that he causes problems for the President
 
Things go better for the Cherokee Indians.

. . . unless there's such a strong push by white voters in the area of North Carolina that almost any president would have relocated them,

even though the Cherokees were Christian by this time for crying out loud!
 
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