Sep 18, 2014 · The public career of John Quincy Adams poses this paradox: he was the greatest ever Secretary of State but only a mediocre President. As Secretary of State, he concluded …

Oct 22, 2020 · Adams’s victory was a gut punch for Jackson, who expected to be elected President having more popular and electoral votes. Following this logic, Jackson and his …

He was pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford in 1974. Watergate caused a lasting drop in public trust in government, and the suffix “-gate” is often used to name major scandals in the …

Oct 1, 2024 · Ebro Darden describes how it's not the popular vote but rather the Electoral College that officially elects the president. The three presidential candidates involved in this scandal …

John Quincy Adams is generally ranked by historians and political scientists as an average president. He is remembered as a great secretary of state and a man eminently qualified for …

I then fade to a portrait of John Adams to link John Quincy to his father’s negative reputation and failed presidency, making the implicit claim that if you elect John Quincy Adams his presidency …

May 14, 2025 · When Adams named Clay as his secretary of state, Jackson denounced the election as "the corrupt bargain." Many assumed Clay had sold his influence to Adams so he …

During the presidential campaign of 1800, President John Adams was accused of sending a friend to Europe to procure mistresses. Adams responded by joking that if the reports were true, …

Feb 21, 2025 · Ignoring charges of nepotism, President Adams appointed John Quincy as ambassador to Prussia. While in Berlin, John Quincy frequently wrote to his father about …

Corrupt Bargain: the name given by the opponents of John Quincy Adams to the theory that Adams agreed to name Henry Clay his Secretary of State in return for Clay ensuring Congress …