John Quincy Adams

POLITICAL PARTIES
Federalist (thru 1808)
Democratic-Republican (1808-30)
National Republican (1830-34)
Anti-Masonic (1834-38)
Whig (1838-48)

RELIGION
Unitarian

EDUCATION
Harvard AB 1787, AM 1790
Read law with Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport, Massachusetts

VITALS
5 ft 7.5 in / 175 lbs

CAREER
1790-94 Practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts
1794-97 Minister to the Netherlands
1797-1801 Minister to Prussia
1802 Massachusetts State Senator; Unsuccessful run for U.S. Representative
1803-08 U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
1809-14 Minister to Russia
1814 Negotiated Treaty of Ghent
1814-17 Minister to the Court of St. James
1817-25 U.S. Secretary of State (Monroe)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
October 29, 1824 - February 9, 1825
Popular: Andrew Jackson 152,933 (42%) Adams 115,696 (32%) Henry Clay 47,136 (13%) William Crawford 46,979 (13%)
Electoral: Jackson 99 Adams 84 Crawford 41 Clay 37
House of Representatives Vote: Adams 13 Jackson 7 Crawford 4

VICE PRESIDENT
John C. Calhoun (1825-29)

ADMINISTRATION
Erie Canal completed (1825); Cumberland Road Expansion, Panama Congress (1826), Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Tariff of Abominations (1828)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Robert Trimble

FIRST LADY
Louisa Catherine Johnson (1825-29)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1831-48 U.S. Representative, Massachusetts

“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.”
Journal, December 11, 1838

Portrait of John Quincy Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1818.