With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

An English village has links to FIVE American presidents - but some locals say they are "not thrilled" with Trump's return to ...

QUINCY — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are not on the presidential pantheon of Mount Rushmore, and many people might struggle to name their most notable achievements. Their remains ...

He was also the great-great-great-grandfather of John Quincy Adams - the sixth President of the United States. The 13th, 27th and 30th presidents of the US all trace back to this rural village ...

If Quincy had an equally desirable plot somewhere ... that would honor both Adams and his father, the second U.S. president John Adams. Four years later, crews have not yet broken ground.

"The only president to ever avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated," Biden said in December 2024.

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat ...

Who didn’t use a Bible? John Quincy Adams took his oath in 1825 on a law book. Theodore Roosevelt — who was sworn in at the ...

Four other presidents have missed their successor’s inauguration, however, Trump was the first to do so in over 150 years, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. John Adams, John Quincy ...

That's the line spoken by King George in the record-breaking musical Hamilton after Adams becomes the second US president in 1797, beating his eventual successor Thomas Jefferson. His place in ...