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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams ... as the “Father of American Astronomy.” Before Adams, many Founding Fathers were knowledgeable and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judge Richard Peters, also cited, was a federal judge for the District of Pennsylvania appointed by President George Washington, for whom Adams served two terms as vice president before becoming ...

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 ...

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 ...