 Though they had once maintained a cordial relationship, Adams and Jackson each came to loathe the other in the decades after the 1828 election.Adams grew bored of his retirement and still felt that his career was unfinished, so he ran for and won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 1830 elections.His election went against the generally held opinion, shared by his own wife and youngest son, that former presidents should not run for public office.