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Definition of John Quincy Adams

1. Noun. 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848).

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Literary usage of John Quincy Adams

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856)
"TO John Quincy Adams. Quincy, 18 February, 1825. MY DEAR SON, — I have received your letter of the 9th.1 Never did I feel so much solemnity as upon this ..."

2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"And if John Quincy Adams, who labored as Cicero did to give his addresses the greatest ... John Quincy Adams being then only in his eighteenth year, ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) JHE chief distinction in character between John ... But only John Quincy Adams could have done the work awaiting John Quincy ..."

4. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"Mr. John Quincy Adams presented a memorial of Mary and John Chamberlin and 247 other males and females of the county of Erie, in the State of New York, ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"Inscription : John Quincy Adams. President of the United States. Engraved by JB Lons;acre ... Inscription: (right) Engd. by T. Bonar. \ John Quincy Adams ..."

6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"... while the members were debating in the same hopeless way, John Quincy Adams took the floor. He reviewed the situation; he declared that the refusal of ..."

7. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"Inscription : John Quincy Adams. President of the United States. Engraved by JB Longacre from a ... Inscription: (right) John Quincy Adams. Line. 4°. EM. ..."

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