Henry Clay

It would be better if he got elected in 1848. 1824 is far too early for him to make his best possible contribution to the nation. Like John Quincy Adams, he will probably be a one term president and get displaced by Jackson.

I'm not really sure what his term would look like though.
 

Glen

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It would be better if he got elected in 1848. 1824 is far too early for him to make his best possible contribution to the nation. Like John Quincy Adams, he will probably be a one term president and get displaced by Jackson.

I'm not really sure what his term would look like though.

I agree - that's why I wrote Clay Victorious set in the 1840s.
 
He'd probably be just like Adams. He'd try to do things only to be blocked by a Jacksonian Congress, and he'd have four miserable years in office only to get defeated in a landslide by the great Andrew Jackson in 1828. The bigger question is, what would happen with him post-presidency. Does he retire from politics, or does he follow a similar course via OTL, always attempting to achieve that lost second term? :rolleyes:
 
I'll get back to you when I finish a biography I have on him. :p

I thought that for him to win 1824 he'd need a few more electoral votes to be part of the vote in the House though.
 
I have a rough idea where Jackson wins in 1825, but b/c he's still politically inexperienced, he does less well, and loses to Henry Clay in 1828. That'll give you an influential Clay around the time you're looking for...
 
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