john quincy adams

     

Between 1803 & 1848, he served as a U.S. senator, Sec. of State, president & congressman, in that order

Trivia about john quincy adams

  • He was the first president to use a middle name
  • In 1824 this famous son won a vote in the House of Representatives & became president
  • In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court
  • Quincy, Massachusetts
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  • Abigail Smith
  • His dad was the second U.S. president; he was No. 6
  • This president was called "Second John"
  • In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president
  • He was the last Federalist candidate to be elected president
  • Like his dad, he made the big leagues, & his 1794 appointment as minister to the Netherlands pads his intl. stats
  • Of the 2 U.S. presidents who were the sons of U.S. presidents, the one known as "Old Man Eloquent"
  • Washington appointed him to Portugal, but his father changed his posting to Prussia
  • The second U.S. president to serve only one term
  • This 6th president wouldn't attend Jackson's inauguration or his honorary degree ceremony at Harvard
  • Abigail Smith
  • The son of a president, he was the first of the few presidents who were bald
  • He got 1 vote in 1820 & though his 84 in 1824 weren't the most, the House made him president
  • He was a Harvard graduate & our sixth U.S. president
  • This man whom James Madison tried to put on the court declined, then followed him into the White House
  • His son John Adams II married Mary Catherine Hellen in the White House on Feb. 25, 1828
  • Jefferson, Madison, Monroe...
  • In 1809 President Madison appointed this future president the first U.S. minister to Russia
  • In his March 4, 1825 address he mentioned our forefathers but never mentioned his own father, a former president
  • This future president must have made Dad proud with 1804's "Letters on Silesia"
  • 1997:Anthony Hopkins
  • In 1848 Horace Mann filled the congressional seat of this ex-president
  • This ex-president died after voting in the House not to give medals to officers who served in a war he had opposed
  • On becoming president, he said he was "less possessed of your confidence... than any of my predecessors"
  • In 1815 he was appointed minister to Great Britain, a post held by his father &, later, by his son Charles
  • Seen here, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name
  • In 1883 Harvard gave Jackson an honorary degree while this alumnus & presidential opponent fumed
  • Before becoming president, he was a professor at Harvard
  • In his diary, he wrote "My election as president...was not half so gratifying" as his later election to Congress in 1830
  • This early president's British-born wife Louisa was the only First Lady born abroad
  • In "Amistad", about an 1839 uprising of Africans on a slave ship, Hopkins played this former president arguing for the defense
  • John C. Calhoun
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at All Hallows Church in London) This man got married here at All Hallows Church on July 26, 1797, soon after his dad became U.S. president
  • He was the first U.S. president to have a middle name
  • Elected to the House from Mass., in 1831 he became the 1st former president to return to Congress
  • In the Speaker's Room at the House of Representatives