John Quincy Adams

Biography of Vice President John C. Calhoun (1825-1829)

Presidencies of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

Biography by Mark O. Hatfield, with the Senate Historical Office. Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993    » read more »

John Quincy Adams (1825 1829)

The first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the top of Penn's Hill above the family farm. As secretary to his father in Europe, he became an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist.    » read more »

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1825

In compliance with an usage coeval with the existence of our Federal Constitution, and sanctioned by the example of my predecessors in the career upon which I am about to enter, I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.    » read more »

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