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1 giorno fa · A comprehensive biography of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States and a prominent diplomat and politician. Learn about his early life, education, career, personal life, legacy and more.
26 ott 2024 · Learn about John Adams, the second president of the United States and a key figure in the American Revolution. Explore his life, achievements, family, and legacy with Britannica.
- John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), A...
- John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
16 ott 2024 · John Quincy Adams was one of the most significant statesmen-intellectuals of the Early American Republic. Highly intelligent, well-traveled, and massively educated, Adams was a Christian nationalist who believed that the American Republic was destined to be a shining example of democracy and liberty to the rest of the world.
18 ott 2024 · Adams lived to see his son, John Quincy Adams, become the sixth President of the United States. On July 4, 1826, Adams died at his home in Quincy. It was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Just before he died, Adams said, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
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1 giorno fa · John Quincy Adams won the election in the House of Representatives after no candidate got a majority of the electoral vote. Learn about the background, nomination process, results and aftermath of the 1824 US presidential election.
19 ott 2024 · When John Quincy Adams was Secretary of State, he was invited to give a speech to celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1821. The speech is most famous for the words “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
26 ott 2024 · Adams himself described the vice presidency as “the most insignificant office that ever the Invention of man contrived or his Imagination conceived.”. His main duty was to serve as president of the Senate, casting a vote only to break a tie.
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