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.

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.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

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 ).

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

John Quincy Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1818

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John Quincy Adams in a posthumous portrait created in 1858 by George Peter Alexander Healy | G. P. A.

Presidential Dollar of John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams left office on March 4, 1829, after losing the election of 1828 to Andrew Jackson.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government.

* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".

They were signed into law by President John Adams.

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John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

He was appointed by President John Adams as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805.

He did not stand for re-election in 1792, and was a presidential elector for John Adams in the 1796 election.

* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

John Adams, who received the next highest vote total, was elected Vice President.

Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts.

She then taught for three years at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

A school ( John Philip Sousa Elementary ) and a band shell are named after him and there is also a memorial tree planted in nearby Port Washington.

He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and finally Belmont High School in Los Angeles, with future baseball player and General Hospital star John Beradino, but left before graduating.

He attended Seeds Elementary School and graduated from John Marshall High School a few blocks away, after attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years.

He was Dr Watson to John Cleese ’ s Sherlock Holmes in N. F. Simpson ’ s surreal comedy Elementary, My Dear Watson.

* Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1969 The Elementary Structures of Kinship revised edition, translated from the French by James Harle Bell and John Richard von Sturmer.

Colonel Glenn Highway, which runs by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University near Dayton, Ohio, John Glenn High School in his hometown of New Concord, Ohio, and Col. John Glenn Elementary in Seven Hills, Ohio, are named for him as well.

Gladstone is served by the Gladstone School District, which includes John Wetten Elementary School, Kraxberger Middle School, and Gladstone High School.

The Washington Dulles International Airport ( located in Dulles, Virginia ) and John Foster Dulles High, Middle and Elementary School in Sugar Land, Texas were all named in honor of Dulles.

John Foster Dulles Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio is named in honor of him.

* St. John Elementary School

** John Beck Elementary School ( founded independently of the district and incorporated ; serves the northern part of Warwick township and Elizabeth township )

** John R. Bonfield Elementary School ( serves the eastern part of the school district, including the outskirts of Lititz borough and Warwick township )

* The first Hampton High School became John M. Willis Elementary School, which closed in 1974.

* Saint John Vianney Catholic Elementary School ( K – 8 )

** Colonel John B. Wyman Elementary School ( K-04 )

** John Thomas Elementary School ( K-04 )

* St. John the Baptist Elementary K-8

* John L. Coble Elementary School

* East St. John Elementary & Middle School in Reserve, La

* West St. John Elementary & Middle School in Edgard, La

Cullman Primary School ( Pre-K-First Grade ), East Elementary ( Second Grade-Sixth Grade ), West Elementary ( Second Grade-Sixth Grade ), John G. Cullman Middle School ( Seventh and Eighth Grades ), and Cullman High School ( Ninth Grade-Twelfth Grade ).