The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

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 ...

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, was born there on July 11, 1767. The John Quincy Adams birthplace was also the birthplace of the Massachusetts Constitution, which John Adams drafted in the ...