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 ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

Mayor Thomas Koch's, the longest-serving executive in Quincy's history, pays tribute to lost leaders in State of the City address.

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

An English village has links to FIVE American presidents - but some locals say they are "not thrilled" with Trump's return to ...

If Quincy had an equally desirable plot somewhere ... the second U.S. president John Adams. Four years later, crews have not yet broken ground. Yet the city’s appetite for eminent domain remains ...

QUINCY — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are not on the presidential pantheon of Mount Rushmore, and many people might struggle to name their most notable achievements. Their remains ...

Who didn’t use a Bible? John Quincy Adams took his oath in 1825 on a law book. Theodore Roosevelt — who was sworn in at the ...

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the ...

He returned to city to play his great grandfather, John Quincy Adams, in the pageant. A city of immigrants, then and now At the time of the tricentennial, about 70% of Quincy's population did not ...

For the Founding Fathers, the pursuit of happiness meant the pursuit of long-term virtue, National Constitution Center ...

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat ...