The “Corrupt Bargain”: After having been elected President of the united States by the House of Representatives, Republican (constitutionalist) John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, names Republican Speaker Henry Clay, of the House of Representatives, to be Secretary of State.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article II, Section 2 [Clause 2]
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References:
Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), 332.
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