The Amistad Mutineers Trial
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848)
Sixth President of the United States (1825) U.S. Senator, Massachusetts (1802) Minister to the Hague (1794) Minister to Russia (1809) Minister to Great Britain (1815) Secretary of State (1817) Member of Congress (1830) The only former President
to thereafter serve in Congress. "He felt that the position would
not in any sense be a degradation to his dignity [as] no person could
be degraded by serving the people as a representative in Congress." |
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