David S. Brown

Brown is the author of The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. He teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania

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How Andrew Jackson Lost a Presidential Election and Wound up in the White House

Charges of stolen presidential elections are rare in American history. Only three candidates—Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump—have been associated with such claims. In Nixon’s case, rumors of voting irregularities in the 1960 race...

By David S. Brown
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