President Warren G. Harding was popular with the American public because he lowered taxes for people and made things better in the country. Some of Harding's scandals were the Teapot Dome and the appointment of many of his friends to official positions in government.
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You must be thinking of John Quincy Adams, our 6th president, who chosen by the House of Representatives after no candidate received the majority of electoral votes needed for election.
Electors are elected by popular vote but the president is elected by the electoral college. A president candidate can win the popular vote and still not win if he doesn't win the electoral college.
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Yes he won the popular vote in 2004, but not in 2000.
George Washington by almost all historians' accounts was a very good President. His major drawback was that he was a slave owner. He did, however free and provide money and education to the slaves which he owned, in his will. No other slave owner President ever did that again.