Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.

In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

* 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

* 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

United States president John Quincy Adams indicated he would approve of this but he left office before this could occur.

President John Quincy Adams assumed the Calhoun – Monroe policy and was determined to remove the Indians by non-forceful means, but Georgia refused to submit to Adams ' request and forced Adams to make a treaty with Creeks and Cherokees granting Georgia what it wanted.

John Quincy Adams ( July 11, 1767February 23, 1848 ) was the sixth president of the United States ( 1825 – 1829 ).

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 to John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams ( née Smith ) in Braintree, Massachusetts, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.

John Quincy Adams Birthplace is now part of Adams National Historical Park and open to the public.

Those places were either directly or indirectly named for John Quincy Adams ( for example, Quincy, Illinois was named in honor of Abrams while Quincy, California was named for Quincy, Illinois ).

The Quincy family name was pronounced, as is the name of the city in Massachusetts where Adams was born.

John Quincy Adams was elected a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in April 1802.

Channing also secured aid from Justice Lemuel Shaw and Boston mayor Josiah Quincy, Jr.

On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw ( 1825 – 1908 ), a wealthy Boston merchant and later benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

* American Men's Singles Championship – Henry Slocum ( USA ) defeats Quincy Shaw ( USA ) 6 – 3 6 – 1 4 – 6 6 – 2

The poet Anna Quincy Waterston was inspired to write a poem about both Lewis and Shaw.

In 1901, Mrs. Quincy Agassiz Shaw, a philanthropist, established the Civic Service House in Boston as an effort to provide educational opportunities for immigrants and young persons seeking work.

* Robert Gould Shaw ( 1776 – 1853 ), father of Quincy Adams Shaw and grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw ( 1837 – 1863 )

Miller brought to The Herald his brother-in-law and nephew, respectively, Aaron Burr Oakley and Ray M. Oakley, the first two generations of the Oakleys in the newspaper business in Quincy.

They include Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many other well known figures in American history.

Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.

Always notably courteous in his treatment of opponents, he showed no bitterness toward either John Quincy Adams or Henry Clay, and he voted for Clay's confirmation as Secretary of State, notwithstanding Jackson's " corrupt bargain " charge.

Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.

The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, drew on a Jeffersonian tradition of compromise and balance in government, national unity, territorial expansion, and support for a national transportation network and domestic manufacturing.

Another remnant led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republicans in 1828 ; It held its first convention in late 1831 in Baltimore.

This process did not yet lead to formal party organization, but later, the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and then the Whig Party.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

He lived there for 17 years, entertaining guests of great fame such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and the future 6th U. S. President, John Quincy Adams.

James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier | Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier is shaking hands with United States Ambassador to Russia John Quincy Adams ; British Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies Henry Goulburn is carrying a red folder. Plaquette at the building in the Veldstraat, Ghent where the treaty was negotiated.

The Americans sent top leaders, including Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and Albert Gallatin, while the British send minor officials who kept in close touch with their superiors in London.

After his successful reelection, Charles Francis asked Henry to be his private secretary, continuing a father-son pattern set by John and John Quincy, and suggesting that Charles Francis had chosen Henry as the political scion of that generation of the family.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

Everett was associated with the " National Republican " faction of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

Two years later, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in Boston by a group that included George Thorndike Angell, John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Saltonstall, and William Gordon Weld.

* Mary Gardiner Adams ( 1845 – 1928 ) married Dr. Henry Parker Quincy

Prominent spokesmen for Jeffersonian principles included Madison, Albert Gallatin, John Randolph of Roanoke, Nathaniel Macon, John Taylor of Caroline, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ( with the last three taking new paths after 1828 ).

They were supported by President James Monroe, an original Jeffersonian, and included John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

* National Republican Party ( 1825 – 1833 ), led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay

When military defeat cleared the way for Henry III to take the throne, de Quincy went on crusade, perhaps in fulfillment of an earlier vow, and in 1219 he left to join the Fifth Crusade, then besieging Damietta.

They remained the dominant political force in the state well into the 1820s, when the party finally disappeared, split between an allegiances to Andrew Jackson or to John Quincy Adams and the “ American system ” of Henry Clay and the Whigs.

McLane quickly became a friend and admirer of William H. Crawford and Martin Van Buren, and at the same time became an opponent of Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.