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John Quincy Adams, America's 6th president, went on to serve for nine terms in the House of Representatives, from 1831 until his death in 1848. He is the only president to be elected to Congress ...
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the sixth president of the United States, chosen by the House of Representatives after the chaotic contest of 1824, crushed in his re-election bid by Andrew ...
John Quincy Adams was the first House member to champion abolition and emancipation. His courage facing attacks by southerners and their congressmen earned him designation as the most courageous ...
John Quincy Adams joins House, Nov. 6, 1830. By Andrew Glass 11/06/2008 04:41 AM EST. ... “No person could be degraded by serving the people as a representative in Congress ...
House of Representatives Adams left the White House in 1829. In 1831 John Quincy was elected by Massachusetts voters to the U.S. House of Representatives -- a first for any former president.
At age 26, John Quincy Adams was appointed by George Washington to be the U.S. minister to the ... he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. An ardent opponent of slavery, ...
John Quincy Adams lost both the popular election and the electoral vote to rival Andrew Jackson during the 1824 presidential election. However, since Jackson failed to win a majority in the ...
John Quincy Adams escapes House censure. By Andrew Glass 02/07/2012 04:37 AM EST. On this day in 1842, Rep. John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts narrowly escaped censure for agitating against slavery.
The Revival of John Quincy Adams The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth. By David Waldstreicher ...
President Trump faces a critical, near impossible, decision in the Middle East. And American political traditions are at odds ...
John Quincy was born on July 11, 1767. In 1778 the 10-year-old accompanied his father on his first diplomatic mission to France. He spent most of the next eight years living with his father in ...