John Quincy Adams America’s Sixth President John Quincy Adams, born in Braintree Massachusetts in 1767, was the son of America’s second president, John Adams. John Q. Adams’ Political career was admirable. In many respects he paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his father. Many historians considered him, as was his father, an above average president. This fact is revealed in the following segments. Although many of these facts did …showed first 75 words of 749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 749 total…of Representatives in preference to Andrew Jackson and William H. Crawford following the inconclusive one-party election of 1824. In the popular contest Jackson had received the greatest number of votes both at the polls and in the state Electoral Collegesbut lacked a constitutional majority. This almost exactly sums up his presidency, it was good, but there were always catches. His political life as a whole though was excellent, possibly one of the greatest of all time.