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… Wythe, a highly influential professor who also taught John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. Clay was … threw his support behind second-place finisher John Quincy Adams and helped build support for him in Congress. Adams won …
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… 1800, Dexter accepted an offer from President John Adams to join his cabinet as secretary of war. By the end of …
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… McHenry accepted and served both Presidents Washington and John Adams before resigning in 1800. Following his resignation, …
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… as a Republican, in the U.S. Senate (1815-1825). President John Quincy Adams brought Barbour into the cabinet as secretary of war …
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… general in the cabinets of Presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams (1817-1829). He wrote extensive legal opinions and …
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… in which capacity Lee remained until the end of President John Adams' administration in 1801. Lee then served one year as a …
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… State University of New York from 1824 to 1830. President John Quincy Adams appointed him secretary of war for the final year of …
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… Washington, a post he held until the end of President John Adams' administration in 1801. Habersham subsequently …
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… 1829 as secretary of the treasury during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Rush served abroad for several years as well, acting …
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… as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1796-1800). He would also serve a number of years as a …
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… a caucus of Democratic-Republican leaders who were against John Adams's run for the presidency. Adams served as vice …
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… of his cabinet vied for the succession: Secretary of State John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Treasury William Harris Crawford of Georgia, and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. Henry Clay of Kentucky, …
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… the Federalist-controlled Congress under Washington and Adams had created a system of circuit courts that was … and justices of the peace. On his last day in office, Adams worked until late in the night signing commissions for … life and were led by the recently appointed Chief Justice John Marshall, greatly irritated most Jeffersonians. Two …
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… Washington administration. He came in second to Federalist John Adams in Electoral College votes and became Adams's vice president. In 1800, however, the political tide …
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… Washington. The vice-presidential vote split between John Adams (34), John Jay (9), Robert Harrison (6), and John … faction, still known as the Federalists, cast 77 votes for John Adams. Jefferson and Madison’s faction, which later …
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… the second set of father and son to become President. (John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first.) Bush was born …
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… 1826 Fourth of July festivities in Washington, D.C. He and John Adams, who was also alive but too ill to attend, were to be … the whispered words that he had lived until the Fourth. Adams died the same day. …
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… with the flexibility; others, including James Madison and John F. Kennedy, find their administrations undermined by … Army as the Quasi-War with France accelerated. President John Adams asked Washington to come out of retirement one more …
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… the United States, and the first since 1825, when Louisa Adams, who was born in London, became First Lady with the inauguration of her husband, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. Melania was the first to be a …
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… through the influence of Speaker Henry Clay, to John Quincy Adams. Jackson challenged Adams again in 1828 and defeated … his first Cabinet and forced a rupture with Vice-President John C. Calhoun by championing the character of Peggy Eaton, …