John Adams, at age 89, wrote a letter to teenage bride-to-be Ellen Maria Brackett, congratulating her on the future nuptials. His jagged signature betrayed the challenges of old age.

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday.

John Quincy Adams, America's 6th president, went on to serve for nine terms in the House of Representatives, from 1831 until his death in 1848. He is the only president to be elected to Congress ...

John Quincy and his father traveled to France in 1778, where John Adams represented the American Continental Congress, and then, in 1783 with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, negotiated a ...

The contract is worth about $960,000. The central feature is the $485,000 bronze statue of John Quincy Adams, raised on two granite steps and a granite plinth.

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the ...

Somehow, I feel sorriest for John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) of all the one-term presidents. He was the sixth president of the United States, son of the second, John Adams the revolutionary.

Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829, stands sandwiched between the eight-year administrations of James Monroe and Andrew Jackson, men of far greater renown. John Quincy Adams was ...