Men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.
It's too hallowed a tradition, even if things did work differently in John Quincy Adams' day.
John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and Andrew Johnson all succumbed to strokes, and died within two days.
The other, John Quincy Adams, also won without winning the popular vote, defeating General Andrew Jackson in 1824.
John Quincy Adams is today famous for helping formulate the Monroe Doctrine and battling the expansion of slavery.
John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth president in 1824, was the son of John Adams, the second president.
John Quincy Adams was an ABS vice president while he was U.S. president and for many years thereafter.
But none hold a candle to John Quincy Adams, who won with a -10.4% margin of the public vote.
Indeed, Jefferson and successors James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson are stars in Mr. Allman's Florida hall of shame.
The position of secretary of state was the gateway to the White House for Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.
Thus the reader learns that President John Quincy Adams swam stark naked every day in the Potomac at 5am, and may have given his first interview under duress.
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President John Quincy Adams lost his re-election bid in 1828.
After a good bit of politicking from all the candidates, the House awarded the presidency to John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won the most electoral votes.
The first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father.
John Quincy Adams after having served as President of the United States was asked by people from his district if it would be beneath the dignity of a former President to serve in the House of Representatives.
Leadership, Mackie said, is a way of being and he points to a quote by former President John Quincy Adams, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader" as a guiding principal.
With his narrow defeat of Vice President Al Gore on the campaign and legal fronts, Bush has become the first son of a president to himself win the White House since John Quincy Adams -- the son of John Adams, the second American president -- was elected in 1824.
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