In the February of 1824, politically active Calvinists across the northern United States finally got their wish for a godly devout president who made the American republic a more explicitly Christian and righteous nation. The House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams over three other men to be the sixth president of the United States. Adams became the first president not to win a majority of the popular vote, and the first president to lose the popular vote to an opponent. He took office with less relative popularity than his predecessors, but Adams’ Puritan forebears taught him that right and righteousness were far more important than electoral popularity. Adams’ mandate came from the God of the Puritans, and he set out to remake the United States into a more Christian nation.
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