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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith); married, July 26,
1797, to Louisa
Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua
Johnson; sister-in-law of John
Pope; niece of Thomas
Johnson); father of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin of William
Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph
Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr., George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
|  | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
|  | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
|  | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
|  | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
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|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
|  | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.
Nagel, John
Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — Lynn
Hudson Parsons, John
Quincy Adams — Robert V. Remini, John
Quincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan, Mr.
Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary
Post-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage |
|  | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Pope (1770-1845) —
also known as "One-Arm Pope" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Springfield, Washington
County, Ky.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1770.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802, 1806-07; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1807-13; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1816-19; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1825-29; Governor
of Arkansas Territory, 1829-35; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1837-43.
Lost
his right arm as a youth.
Slaveowner.
Died in Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., July 12,
1845 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Ky.
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Louisa Adams (1775-1852) —
also known as Louisa Catherine Johnson —
Born in London, England,
February
12, 1775.
First
Lady of the United States, 1825-29.
Female.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 15,
1852 (age 77 years, 93
days).
Entombed at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.
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Nathaniel Pope (1784-1850) —
of Illinois.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
5, 1784.
Secretary
of Illinois Territory, 1809-16; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Illinois Territory, 1816-18; U.S.
District Judge for Illinois, 1819-50; died in office 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., January
22, 1850 (age 66 years, 17
days).
Interment somewhere
in St. Louis, Mo.
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