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Tag Archives: John Quincy Adams
Harriet Lane and the James Buchanan Statue
James Buchanan has been the cellar dweller among Presidents for more than 150 years. JB: The Balance Sheet The asset side. Pennsylvania’s James Buchanan (1791-1868) came to the presidency in 1857 with a forty-plus-year resume of solid achievement: successful attorney, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Buchanan, Nifty History People, Presidential Sites
Tagged American history, Architect William Gordon Beecher, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, Harriet Lane, Harriet Lane Johnston, Henry Cabot Lodge, history, James Buchanan, John Quincy Adams, President James Buchanan, Presidential history, Presidential hostess Harriet Lane, Sculptor Hans Schuler, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Statue of James Buchanan, US history, Washington DC history, White House history
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FIRST DADS: A Book Review
Author Joshua Kendall has whipped up a dandy light-history read! FIRST DADS is filled with stories, tidbits and gossip about our Presidents – and how they stacked up as fathers. Or not. The author begins with an important premise (not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Recommended Reading
Tagged "First Dads", Fathers in the White House, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Jack Custis, John Adams, John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Kendall, President Obama as father, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential fathers, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes as father, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt as father, Ulysses S Grant as father, Ulysses S. Grant
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The White House Nellie Weddings
White House Weddings Before Ulysses S. Grant was even born, there had been weddings in the White House. During James Madison’s administration, Dolley Madison’s widowed sister married her second husband, Thomas Todd. Some years later, James Monroe’s daughter Maria Hester … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged Algernon Sartoris, American history, Dolley Madison, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, Ellen Wilson, Ellen Wrenshall Grant, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Family history, Grant son-in-las Sartoris, history, James Madison, James Monroe, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, John Adams II, John Quincy Adams, Julia Grant, Maria Hester Monroe, Nell Wilson McAdoo, Nellie Grant, Nellie Grant Sartoris, President Grant, President U.S. Grant, President Woodrow Wilson, Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Weddings in the White House, White House history, White House weddings, William G.McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson
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John Quincy Adams: When The People Cheered
John Quincy Adams was a brilliant man of many substantive accomplishments. Popularity was not one of them. JQA: A Spectacular Upbringing By the time John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was twenty-one, he was arguably the most cosmopolitan man of his generation … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, John Quincy Adams
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams, Henry Clay, history, John Adams, John Q. Adams, John Quincy Adams, JQA, Louisa Catherine Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, President James Monroe, President John Quincy Adams, Presidential history, Secretary of State JQ Adams, The character of John Quincy Adams, The Presidential Campaign of 1824, US history, White House history, William Crawford
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Nabby Adams: The Mastectomy
John and Abigail Adams’ daughter underwent a mastectomy when she was forty-four. The Oldest Adams Offspring The eldest of the four surviving children of John and Abigail Adams was a daughter, named Abigail (1765-1813) and forever nicknamed “Nabby.” Somewhat withdrawn … Continue reading
Posted in John Adams, Nifty History People
Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams sister Mary Cranch, Adams' son-in-law William Smith, American history, cancer in colonial times, Dr.Benjamin Rush, history, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Nabby Adams, Nabby Adams Smith, Nabby Adams' beau Royall Tyler, performing surgery in 19th century, Royall Tyler, the mastectomy of Nabby Adams, treating cancer in 19th century, US history, William Smith Adams' son-in-law
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William R. King: The VEEP Who Never Was
The office of Vice President was merely an afterthought to our Constitution’s founders. It was so insignificant that for nearly 39 years(!), the office remained empty. The Early VEEPS For the first twelve years of the USA being the USA, … Continue reading
Posted in Nifty History People
Tagged Aaron Burr, American history, American Vice Presidents, Andrew Jackson, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, James Buchanan, John Adams, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, The election of 1852, Thomas Jefferson, US history, US Vice Presidents, Vice President William R> King, Vice Presidential history, Vice Presidents, VP William R. King, William Henry Harrison, William rufus DeVane King, Zachary Taylor
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Mrs. Adams, Dr. Physick, and Her Unmentionable Problem
Louisa Catherine Adams: A Brief Medical History Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), London born and Paris educated, was raised to be exactly what she would become: a perfect consort for a man of distinction. John Quincy Adams was the US minister … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, John Quincy Adams, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Dr. Philip Physick, Dr. Philip Syng Physick, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, First Lady Louisa Adams, history, John Quincy Adams, Louisa Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, Mrs. John QUincy Adams, nineteenth century surgery, Philip Syng Physick, Thomas Johnson, US history
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Louisa Adams and the Jackson Ball
In 1824, James Monroe, our last Founding Father(ish) was retiring. His Cabinet was a virtual nursery for a new generation poised to take over. The Players and the Playing Field: 1824 Leading the field for the election of 1824, was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, John Quincy Adams
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth Monroe, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady Louisa Adams, General Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, history, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, John Q. Adams, John Quincy Adams, Louisa Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, President John Quincy Adams, Presidential history, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, The Battle of New Orleans, The Jackson Ball, White House history, William Crawford
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The Presidential Stepping Stone
More than half our Presidents have been lawyers, at least by discipline. Whether they liked it or not, and even whether they actively “practiced law” is something else. POTUSes Reading Law In the “olden days,” one did not need a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Andrew Jackson, Calvin Coolidge, Feather Schwartz Foster, Franklin Roosevelt, George Wythe, history, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, President Harding, Presidential history, Presidential lawyers, Presidents who were lawyers, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. history, Warren Harding, White House history, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
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John Adams and The Validation of America
March 4, 1797 is one of those barely recognized dates – but it is a pivotal one. The Lonely Inaugural of John Adams Inaugurals today are times of celebration: parades, parties, balls. People come from all over the globe to … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, George Washington, John Adams
Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams Smith, American history, Charles Adams, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, history, Inaugural of John Adams, John Adams, John Adams' faily, John Quincy Adams, Nabby Adams, PResident George Washington, President John Adams, Presidential history, Thomas Adams, Thomas Boylston Adams, Thomas Jefferson, US history, Vice President John Adams, Vice President Thomas Jefferson
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