If John Quincy Adams had retired after his service in the ... His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a presidency uniformly considered a failure. The historian Allan Nevins, raised ...

After deciding in his usual agonizing way that following the presidency by a stint ... Title page of John Quincy Adams’ Amistad argument before the Supreme Court, 1841. (loc.gov) One of his ...

When John Quincy Adams left the presidency, defeated after one term ... he represented enslaved men and women who had escaped their captors before the Supreme Court, winning them their freedom.

John Quincy Adams's path to the presidency was shaped significantly ... In 1841, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court the Amistad case, which freed Africans enslaved aboard a ...

This august cast of memorable heroes and villains nevertheless leaves little room for lesser characters such as John Quincy Adams ... Following his presidency, Adams went on to serve nine terms ...

When he was young, John Quincy Adams ... Andrew Jackson defeated Adams, who retired with his wife Louisa to his hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. Of his presidency, Adams said, “I can ...

Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had moved into the presidency from the ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy ... Yet Adams was a revolutionary long before ...

This august cast of memorable heroes and villains nevertheless leaves little room for lesser characters such as John Quincy Adams. Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829 ...

Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries’ harrowing journey ... in History A “corrupt bargain” that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy ... Yet Adams was a revolutionary long before ...

Adams once predicted ... In 1841, long after he had left the presidency and while he was serving in Congress, John Quincy made a historic stand when he argued before the Supreme Court on ...