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John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, to John and Abigail Adams (née Smith) in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts, that is now Quincy. [4] He was named after his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is also named. Colonel Quincy died two days after his great-grandson's birth. [5]
6th president John Quincy Adams (died February 23, 1848) 6 years, 325 days after 9th president William Henry Harrison (died April 4, 1841) 2 years, 260 days after 7th president Andrew Jackson (died June 8, 1845) 8th president Martin Van Buren (died July 24, 1862) 21 years, 111 days after 9th president William Henry Harrison (died April 4, 1841)
The presidency of John Quincy Adams, began on March 4, 1825, when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1829.Adams, the sixth United States president, took office following the 1824 presidential election, in which he and three other Democratic-Republicans—Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson—sought the presidency.
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth president of the United States, married English-born Louisa Adams (née Johnson) (1775–1852). [ 11 ] George Washington Adams (1801–1829), member of Massachusetts state legislature.
While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives (by the terms of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a presidential election in which no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote is decided by a contingent election in the ...
The three senators and statesmen (arranged here alphabetically) dominated American politics during the Second Party System (1828–52), from the start of the John Quincy Adams administration through the Compromise of 1850.
John Quincy Adams: Preceded by: John Quincy Adams: Succeeded by: Martin Van Buren: United States Senator from Kentucky; In office March 4, 1849 – June 29, 1852: Preceded by: Thomas Metcalfe: Succeeded by: David Meriwether: In office November 10, 1831 – March 31, 1842: Preceded by: John Rowan: Succeeded by: John J. Crittenden: In office ...
He died in Washington, D.C., on October 23, 1834, and is buried in Quincy's Hancock Cemetery. [10] Mary Hellen Adams continued to reside with John Quincy and Louisa Adams and helped care for them in their old age. [11] She died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on August 31, 1870. [12]