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John Quincy Adams: Media
6th president of the United States
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, oil on canvas by George Caleb Bingham, c. 1850; in the National...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (object no. NPG.69.20)
John Quincy Adams's birthplace
Birthplace of John Quincy Adams, in Quincy (formerly Braintree), Massachusetts, photograph...
Detroit Publishing Company Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 4a11321)
Future U.S. president John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams at 16 years old, 1783; copy of an engraving after a portrait by...
U.S. National Park Service
Louisa Adams
First lady Louisa Catherine Adams, oil on canvas by Charles Bird King, c. 1824; in...
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Adams–Clement Collection, gift of Mary Louisa Adams Clement in memory of her mother, Louisa Catherine Adams Clement (object no. 1950.6.5)
Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812 between Great...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1818; in the collection of the White...
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1796; in the Museum of...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-det-4a31347)
repeal of gag rules
Motion by John Quincy Adams to include his statement on the gag rules in the House...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
The collapse of John Quincy Adams from a fatal stroke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
John Quincy Adams: seized with a fit in the House of Representatives Feby 21st 1848,...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
John Quincy Adams
Death of John Quincy Adams, lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, c. 1848.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3g05802)
On his deathbed: John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, sketched a few hours before his death by Arthur J. Stansbury,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC2-2714)
Adams, John Quincy
John Quincy Adams; daguerreotype by Mathew Brady.
Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cwpbh 02619)
Adams, John Quincy
John Quincy Adams, who led the effort to repeal the gag rule.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3a39626)
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