🌱 Patch AM: Medfield Historical Society Presents "John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist" and 13 more events

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John Quincy Adams: Sixth president of the United States

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1767, the first son of John and ...
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John Quincy Adams: Beginnings

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding village of ...
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The post presidency of John Quincy Adams

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the change because she disliked ...
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Why John Adams Called September 17 One of “The Happiest Days” of His Life

250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...