OVERVIEW:
BORN:
July 11, 1767
Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
DIED
February 23, 1848 (age 80)
Washington, DC
EDUCATION:
Harvard University
POLITICAL PARTIES:
Federalist
Democratic-Republican
National Republican
Anti-Masonic
Whig
HIGHLIGHTS:
1794-1797:
U.S. Minister to the Netherlands
1797-1801:
U.S. Minister to Prussia
1802-1803:
Member of the Massachusetts State Senate
1803-1808:
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
1809-1814:
U.S. Minister to Russia
1815-1817:
U.S. Minister to Great Britain
1817-1825:
U.S. Secretary of State
1825-1829:
6th President of the United States
1831-1848:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
FIRST LADY:
VICE PRESIDENT:
RESOURCES:
BIOGRAPHIES:
White House
Biographical Directory of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Massachusetts Historical Society
UVA Miller Center
American National Biography
Department of State
Wikipedia
PAPERS:
Adams Papers (MA Historical Society)
Diaries (MA Historical Society)
American Presidency Project (UCSB)
NOTABLE BOOKS:
1824 ELECTION:
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN:
ANDREW JACKSON (PRESIDENT)
JOHN C. CALHOUN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 99 (37.9%)
Popular Vote: 151,271 (41.3%)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN:
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (PRESIDENT)
JOHN C. CALHOUN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 84 (32.2%)
Popular Vote: 113,122 (30.9%)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN:
WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD (PRESIDENT)
NATHANIEL MACON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 41 (15.7%)
Popular Vote: 40,856 (11.2%)
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN:
HENRY CLAY (PRESIDENT)
NATHAN SANFORD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 37 (14.2%)
Popular Vote: 47,531 (13.0%)
NOTE:
John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives under the requirements of the Twelfth Amendment after none of the presidential candidates received a majority of the electoral votes.
1825 INAUGURATION:
Inaugural Address
Library of Congress
New England Historical Society
1828 ELECTION:
DEMOCRATIC:
ANDREW JACKSON (PRESIDENT)
JOHN C. CALHOUN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 178 (68.2%)
Popular Vote: 642,553 (56.1%)
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN:
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (PRESIDENT)
RICHARD RUSH (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 83 (31.8%)
Popular Vote: 500,897 (43.6%)
ADAMS ADMINISTRATION:
ATTORNEY GENERAL:
William Wirt (1817–1829)
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY:
Samuel L. Southard (1823–1829)
POSTMASTER GENERAL:
John McLean (1823–1829)
SECRETARY OF STATE:
Henry Clay (1825–1829)
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
Richard Rush (1825–1829)
SECRETARY OF WAR:
James Barbour (1825–1828)
Peter B. Porter (1828–1829)
SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS:
Robert Trimble (1826-1828)
John J. Crittenden (Not Confirmed)
CONGRESS:
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE:
John W. Taylor (1825-1827)
Andrew Stevenson (1827-1834)
HISTORIC SITES:
