Adam+Johns+1825

= Who is he =  John Quincy Adams was president in 1825 tell 1829 he was the 6th president. He had a nickname "Old Man Eloquent" /he was born july 11 1767 he died feb 23 1848. I think John was a hero more then a villain. Nothing ive read about him was bad. EVENTS http://www.potus.com/jqadams.html, http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jqadams/essays/biography/1 Reared for public service, John Quincy Adams became one of the nation's preeminent secretaries of state, but he proved to be the wrong man for the presidency. Stiff-necked, and ferociously independent, he failed to develop the support he needed in Washington, even among his own party. Faced throughout his term with organized opposition from the Democrats -- who were committed to limiting Adams to a single term and replacing him with Andrew Jackson -- Adams refused to forge the political alliances necessary to push his ideas into policy. His father, President John Adams,did the same, and he served only one term. History repeated itself with his son: John Quincy Adams lost his reelection bid to Jackson in 1828. Louisa Catherine Johnson, the daughter of an American merchant living abroad. Adams had first met her in France when he was twelve. For months,Adams would visit her family, always leaving when the daughters sat down at the piano to play and sing -- he hated the sound of the female voice in song. Besides his taste in music, the President, who did not think his son should have a foreign-born wife, the two were married in 1797. Adams believed strongly that it was constitutional and appropriate for the federal government to sponsor broad programs to improve American society and prosperity. He backed Henry Clay's proposed "American System," for a national marketplace in which North and South, town and country were tied together by trade and exchange. To realize this vision, Adams proposed to Congress an program involving the construction of roads, educational institutions, and other initiatives. Lacking congressional allies, Adams was unable to maneuver most of these programs into law. His support of the so-called Abominable Tariff of 1828, which protected American interests but caused higher prices, cost him popularity among the voters. By 1828, Andrew Jackson had been campaigning for three years. He characterized Adams's election as a "corrupt bargain" typical of the elitist eastern "gamesters," such as Adams and Clay. Following a campaign marred by vicious personal attacks -- Jackson's wife was called an adulteress) -- Jackson won in a landslide.


 * Adams was the first to be elected president without receiving either the most popular votes or the most votes of the electoral college.
 * He was the first president married abroad.
 * Adams was the first president to be photographed.
 * Adams is the only president to be elected to the House after his presidency.
 * One of his sons, George Washington Adams, died at the age of 28, an apparent suicide.