When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

Former President John Quincy Adams, “Old Man Eloquent,” fatally stricken at his desk in the House in 1848. (loc.gov) Adams, like his father, refused to attend the swearing in of his successor.

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 ...

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. ... President John Quincy Adams. ...

When he was young, John Quincy Adams was told by his father, President John Adams, “If you do not rise to the head of your country…it will be owing to your own laziness….” At age 26, John ...

His son, John Quincy Adams, was sworn in as president on March 4, 1825. The Adams family holds a unique distinction in American history as the first father and son to both serve as president of ...

QUINCY − President John Adams' 288th birthday will be celebrated at noon Monday, Oct. 30, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center.

To be clear, Randall Woods' “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of ...

John Quincy Adams served as President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. Adams, defeated, returned to public life with his election to the House of Representatives in 1830.

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...