The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a short-lived political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.
When Andrew Jackson became president, following his victory over Adams in the 1828 election, this group became the opposition, and organized themselves as “Anti-Jackson”. Henry Clay served as the party’s nominee in the 1832 election, but he was defeated by Jackson. The party supported Clay’s American System of nationally financed internal improvements and a protective tariff. After the 1832 election, opponents of Jackson coalesced into the Whig Party. National Republicans, Anti-Masons and others joined the new party.