Adams political family

Politically influential family in U.S. history

"Adams family" redirects here. For the fictional family, see The Addams Family. For other uses, see Adams family (disambiguation).

Adams family

Current region| Massachusetts, U.S.
Place of origin| Barton St David, Somerset, Kingdom of England
Connected families| Baldwin family (U.S.)
Taft family (U.S.)
Spencer family (UK)
Quincy family (U.S.)
Motto| Fidem libertatem amicitiam retinebis
("Hold fast to liberty, friendship, and faith")
Estate(s)| Peacefield (Quincy, Massachusetts)
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The Adams family is an American political family of English origins, most prominent between the late 18th century and the early 20th century. Based in eastern Massachusetts, they formed part of the Boston Brahmin community. The family traces to Henry Adams of Barton St David, Somerset, in England.[1] Its members include U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The two presidents and their descendants are also descended from John Alden, who came to the United States on the Mayflower.

The Adams family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others being the Bush, Roosevelt, and Harrison families.

## John Adams

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Adams' birthplace in Quincy, Massachusetts

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735, Old Style, Julian calendar), to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston. He had two younger brothers: Peter (1738–1823) and Elihu (1741–1775).[2] Adams was born on the family farm in Braintree, Massachusetts.[3][a] His mother was from a leading medical family of present-day Brookline, Massachusetts. His father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, a farmer, a cordwainer, and a lieutenant in the militia.[4] John Sr. served as a selectman (town councilman) and supervised the building of schools and roads. Adams often praised his father and recalled their close relationship.[5] Adams's great-great-grandfather Henry Adams immigrated to Massachusetts from Braintree, Essex, England, around 1638.[4]

Though raised in modest surroundings, Adams felt pressured to live up to his heritage. His family was descended from Puritans, whose strict religious doctrines had profoundly shaped New England's culture, laws, and traditions. By the time of John Adams's birth, Puritan tenets such as predestination had waned and many of their severe practices moderated, but Adams still "considered them bearers of freedom, a cause that still had a holy urgency".[6] Adams recalled that his parents "'held every Species of Libertinage in ... Contempt and horror,' ... and painted 'pictures of disgrace, or baseness and of Ruin' that would result from licentious behavior".[2] Adams later noted that "As a child I enjoyed perhaps the greatest of blessings that can be bestowed upon men – that of a mother who was anxious and capable to form the characters of her children."[7]

Adams, as the eldest child, was compelled to obtain a formal education. This began at age six at a dame school for boys and girls, conducted at a teacher's home, and was centered upon The New England Primer. Shortly thereafter, Adams attended Braintree Latin School under Joseph Cleverly, where studies included Latin, rhetoric, logic, and arithmetic. Adams's early education included incidents of truancy, a dislike for his master, and a desire to become a farmer. All discussion on the matter ended with his father's command that he remain in school: "You shall comply with my desires." Deacon Adams hired a new schoolmaster named Joseph Marsh, and his son responded positively.[8]

## Members

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Abigail Smith Adams – 1766 portrait by Benjamin Blyth

John Adams – 1766 portrait also by Blyth

Abigail Smith Adams – 1800–1815 portrait by Gilbert Stuart

John Adams – 1800–1815 portrait by Gilbert Stuart

Coat of Arms of John Adams, the second U.S. president Coat of Arms of John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president

* Henry Adams (1583–1646) born Barton St David, Somerset, England, first of the clan who immigrated to New England, United States.[9]

* John Adams Sr. (1691–1761), married Susanna Boylston (1708–1797)
* John Adams (1735–1826), second president of the United States, married Abigail Adams (née Smith) (1744–1818).[10]
* John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth president of the United States, married English-born Louisa Adams (née Johnson) (1775–1852).[11]
* George Washington Adams (1801–1829), member of Massachusetts state legislature.[12]
* John Adams II (1803–1834), private secretary to his father.
* Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), U.S. Congressman and Ambassador to the United Kingdom.[13]
* John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894), lawyer and politician.[14] His grandson was sociologist George C. Homans.
* George Caspar Adams (1863–1900), prominent college athlete and football coach at Harvard University.[15]
* Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), 44th Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts.[16]
* Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), first president of Raytheon.
* Abigail Adams (1879–1974), m. Robert Homans
* George C. Homans (1910–1989), President of the American Sociological Association
* Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), brigadier-general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. His granddaughter was artist Mary Ogden Abbott.
* John Adams (1875–1964), married Marian Morse.
* Thomas Boylston Adams (1910–1997), executive, writer, and political candidate.
* Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), prominent author and political commentator, married Marian Hooper Adams (née Hooper) (1843–1885).
* Brooks Adams (1848–1927), historian and political scientist.
* Charles Adams (1770–1800), New York lawyer. His grandson Alexander S. Johnson was a federal judge.
* Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), Massachusetts legislator and judge.[17]
* Elihu Adams (1741–1775), younger brother of John Adams and captain in the Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolutionary War.

* Samuel Adams (1722–1803), revolutionary, delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of Massachusetts, John Adams's second cousin.
* Samuel A. Adams (1934–1988), historian and CIA analyst.
* John Donley Adams (born 1973), American politician and lawyer.

## Family religion

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Adams was raised a Congregationalist but left the denomination as a young man. By his early 20s, he identified as a Unitarian, a Protestant denomination that had been recently formed.[18] Adams always felt pressured to live up to his heritage. His family was descended from Puritans, whose strict religious doctrines had profoundly shaped New England's culture, laws, and traditions. By the time of his birth, the Congregationalists no longer called themselves "Puritans"; their severe practices had largely been dropped in the First Great Awakening of the 1730s. Adams praised them historically as bearers of freedom, a cause that still had a holy urgency".[6] Adams recalled that his parents "held every Species of Libertinage in ... Contempt and horror", and detailed "pictures of disgrace, or baseness and of Ruin" resulting from any debauchery.[2]

According to Dr. Sara Georgini, editor of The John Adams Papers:[19]

> From John Adams through his grandson Charles Francis, the Adams family creed was conventionally Unitarian. They believed in a guiding Providence. They trusted that human will empowered them to freely accept or reject God’s grace. They turned away from miracles and revelation, preferring biblical criticism and lay inquiry to broaden the mind beyond the passive reception of dogma. Acknowledging Jesus as a “master workman” and gifted moral teacher, they grew fuzzy about his divinity, opting instead to scrutinize his teachings and doctrines as they related to contemporary culture. In line with their Protestant peers, most Adamses mistrusted the sensory emphasis and hierarchical nature of “Romish” Catholicism, but they revered Judaism as a source of lawmaking and ethics.

## Family tree

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The following is a selective family tree of notable members of the Adams family relative to Charles Francis Adams IV:

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> President John Quincy Adams| | Louisa Catherine Johnson| | Peter Chardon Brooks| | Abigail [Brown]| | | | | | |
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> Charles Francis Adams Sr.| | Abigail Brown [Brooks]| | George Caspar Crowninshield| | Harriet [Sears]| | | | | | |
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> Charles Francis Adams Jr.| | | John Quincy Adams II| | Frances Cadwalader [Crowninshield]
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> John Quincy Adams III| | George Caspar Adams| | Charles Francis Adams III| | Frances [Lovering]| | Frances C. Adams| | Arthur Adams| | Margery Lee [Sargeant]| | Abigail ("Hitty") Adams| | Robert Homans| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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> Catherine Lovering Adams| | Henry Sturgis Morgan| | Charles Francis Adams IV| | Margaret [Stockton]| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 Sons, 1 Daughter| | | | |
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> Five Sons| | Abigail Adams| | James C. Manny| | Allison Adams| | Paul G. Hagan| | Timothy Adams| | | | |
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| William Stephens Smith
(1755–1816)| | Abigail Amelia Adams Smith
(1765–1813)| | John Quincy Adams
(1767–1848)| | Louisa Catherine Adams (née Johnson)
(1775–1852)| | Charles Adams
(1770–1800)| | Thomas Boylston Adams
(1772–1832)
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(1801–1829)| | John Adams II
(1803–1834)| | Charles Francis Adams Sr.
(1807–1886)| | Abigail Brown Adams (née Brooks)
(1808–1889)|

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| Frances Cadwalader Crowninshield
(1839–1911)| | John Quincy Adams II
(1833–1894)| | Charles Francis Adams Jr.
(1835–1915)| | Henry Brooks Adams
(1838–1918)| | Marian Hooper Adams
(1843–1885)| | Peter Chardon Brooks Adams
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| George Casper Adams
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(1866–1954)| | Frances Adams (née Lovering)
(1869–1956)| | John Adams
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| Henry Sturgis Morgan
(1900–1982)| | Catherine Lovering Adams Morgan
(1902–1988)| | Charles Francis Adams IV
(1910–1999)| | Thomas Boylston Adams
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## Harvard University and the Adams family

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The Adams family had an extensive relationship with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following members of the family attended and graduated from Harvard:

* John Adams, class of 1755
* John Quincy Adams, class of 1788 and faculty member
* Charles Adams, class of 1789
* Thomas Boylston Adams, class of 1790
* George Washington Adams, class of 1821
* John Adams II, expelled with most of senior class prior to 1823 graduation, later among those designated "Bachelor of Arts as of 1823" and added to Harvard's Roll of Graduates
* John Quincy Adams II, class of 1853
* Charles Francis Adams Sr., class of 1825
* Charles Francis Adams Jr., class of 1856
* Henry Brooks Adams, class of 1858 and faculty member
* Brooks Adams, class of 1870
* George Caspar Adams, class of 1886, played football at Harvard and served as their head football coach for three seasons
* Charles Francis Adams III, class of 1888
* Roger Adams, class of 1909
* Charles Francis Adams IV, class of 1932
* Thomas Boylston Adams, class of 1933[20] (did not graduate)[21]
* Samuel A. Adams – class of 1955

Adams House, one of 12 residential colleges at Harvard, is named after John Adams and later members of the Adams family.

## Memorials

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* Adams Memorial
* Adams National Historical Park
* Peacefield

## See also

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* List of United States political families
* The Adams Chronicles \- 1976 television miniseries

## Notes

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1. ^ The site of the Adams house is now in Quincy, Massachusetts, which was separated from Braintree and organized as a new town in 1792.

## References

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1. ^ Walker, Jane C. (2002). John Adams. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc. p. 14\. ISBN 0766017044.
2. ^ a b c Ferling 1992, p. 11.
3. ^ Ferling 1992, p. 317.
4. ^ a b McCullough 2001, pp. 29–30.
5. ^ Ferling 1992, pp. 11–14.
6. ^ a b Brookhiser 2002, p. 13.
7. ^ Kirtley 1910, p. 366.
8. ^ Ferling 1992, pp. 12–14.
9. ^ John Adams: Biography
10. ^ John Adams bioguide at Congress.gov
11. ^ John Quincy Adams bioguide at Politicalgraveyard.com
12. ^ George Washington Adams bioguide at Politicalgraveyard.com
13. ^ Charles Francis Adams Sr. bioguide at Congress.gov
14. ^ John Quincy Adams II bioguide at Politicalgraveyard.com
15. ^ Gardner, Augustus Peabody (December 1906). "George Caspar Adams". In Huddleston, John Henry (ed.). Secretary's report. Harvard College Class of 1886. Harvard College Class of 1886 secretary's report no. 6. Vol. Report No. 6. New York: The De Vinne Press. pp. 7–8\. hdl:2027/hvd.32044107298846. OCLC 903610243. Retrieved 2018-06-12 - via HathiTrust.
16. ^ Charles Francis Adams III bioguide at Politicalgraveyard.com
17. ^ Thomas Boylston Adams biography at Masshist.org
18. ^ David Waldstreicher, ed. A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. (2013) pp. 23, 39.
19. ^ Sara Georgini, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family ( Oxford University Press, 2019) pp 5–6.
20. ^ William E. McKibben (June 9, 1082). "Four More Years". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
21. ^ Eric Pace (June 9, 1997). "Thomas B. Adams Dies at 86; Descendant of Two Presidents". New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2014. "Adams... attended Harvard College from 1929 to 1932"

## Further reading

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* Brookhiser, Richard (2002). America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918. Simon and Schuster. Excerpt.
* Decker, William Merrill. "Dynasty, Declension, and the Endurance of the House of Adams." Reviews in American History 49.2 (2021): 250–258. online

* Egerton, Douglas R. Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America (Basic Books, 2019). excerpt
* Georgini, Sara. Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019) excerpt

* Kirtley, James Samuel (1910). Half Hour Talks on Character Building: By Self-made Men and Women. A. Hamming. OCLC 13927429.

* Maddox, Robert J. "The Adamses in America". American History Illustrated, Jul 1971, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 12–21.[1]

* Nagel, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the Adams Family (1983).
* Nagel, Paul C. The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters (Harvard University Press, 1999).

### Biographies

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* Abrams, Jeanne E. A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe (NYU Press, 2021).

* Chinard, Gilbert (1933). Honest John Adams. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company. OCLC 988108386.
* Diggins, John P. (2003). Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. (ed.). John Adams. The American Presidents. New York, NY: Time Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6937-2.
* Ellis, Joseph J. (1993). Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31133-4.
* Ferling, John E. (1992). John Adams: A Life. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-730-8.
* McCullough, David (2001). John Adams. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-7588-7.
* Morse, John Torey (1884). John Adams. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company. OCLC 926779205.
* Smith, Page (1962a). John Adams. Vol. I, 1735–1784\. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. ISBN 9780837123486. OCLC 852986601. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* Smith, Page (1962b). John Adams. Vol. II, 1784–1826\. New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8371-2348-6. OCLC 852986620. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

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* Samuel Adams (Whitney)
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John Adams

* 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801)
* 1st Vice President of the United States (1789–1797)
* U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1785–1788)
* U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1782–1788)
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* Delegate to the First Continental Congress (1774)

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* Braintree Instructions (1765)
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* May 15 preamble
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* Model Treaty
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* Treaty of Alliance
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* Sick and Disabled Seamen Relief Act
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* Bankruptcy Act of 1800
* Indiana Organic Act
* Slave Trade Act of 1800
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* Navy Department Library
* Treaty of Tellico
* Treaty of Tripoli
* Midnight Judges Act
* Marbury v. Madison
* State of the Union Address (1797
* 1798
* 1799
* 1800)
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* Cabinet
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Other writings|

* Massachusetts Historical Society holdings
* Adams Papers Editorial Project
* A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
* Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams
* Founders Online
* Gray v. Pitts

Life and
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* Early life and education
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* John Adams Birthplace
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* Peacefield
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* Presidents House, Philadelphia
* Co-founder and second president, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* United First Parish Church and gravesite

Legacy|

* Bibliography
* List of memorials
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* John Adams Building
* John Adams Courthouse
* Jefferson Memorial pediment
* U.S. Postage stamps
* Treaty of Paris (1783 painting)
* USS Adams (1799)
* USS John Adams (1799)
* USS Adams (1874)
* USS President Adams (1941)
* USS John Adams (1963)
* Adams House at Harvard University
* John Adams tree
* Mount Adams (New Hampshire, Washington)
* Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Popular culture|

* Declaration of Independence (1938 film)
* Profiles in Courage (1964 series)
* American Primitive (1969 play)
* 1776 (1969 musical
* 1972 film)
* The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
* Liberty! (1997 documentary series)
* Liberty's Kids (2002 animated series)
* John Adams (2001 book
* 2008 miniseries)
* John and Abigail Adams (2006 documentary film)
* Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)
* Franklin (2024 miniseries)

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* "Adams and Liberty" campaign song
* Adams' personal library
* American Enlightenment
* Congress Hall
* Federalist Party
* Federalist Era
* First Party System
* republicanism
* American Philosophical Society
* Gazette of the United States
* The American Museum
* American Revolution
* patriots
* Founding Fathers

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* Abigail Adams
* wife
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* Abigail Adams Smith (daughter)
* John Quincy Adams
* son
* presidency
* Charles Adams (son)
* Thomas Boylston Adams (son)
* George Washington Adams (grandson)
* Charles Francis Adams Sr. (grandson)
* John Adams II (grandson)
* John Quincy Adams II (great-grandson)
* Henry Adams (great-grandson)
* Brooks Adams (great-grandson)
* John Adams Sr. (father)
* Susanna Boylston (mother)
* Samuel Adams (second cousin)
* Louisa Adams (daughter-in-law, first lady)

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John Quincy Adams

* U.S. Representative for MA–8 (1843–1848)
* U.S. Representative for MA–12 (1833–1843)
* U.S. Representative for MA–11 (1831–1833)
* 6th President of the United States (1825–1829)
* 8th United States Secretary of State (1817–1825)
* U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1814–1817)
* U.S. Minister to Russia (1809–1814)
* U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1803–1808)
* U.S. Minister to Prussia (1797–1801)
* U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1794–1797)

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* Inauguration
* American System
* Internal improvements
* Tariff of 1828
* First Treaty of Prairie du Chien
* Treaty of Fond du Lac
* Treaty of Limits
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* State of the Union Address, 1825
* 1827
* 1828
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* Supreme Court nomination
* Monroe Doctrine, author
* Treaty of Ghent
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* Treaty of 1818
* Tariff of 1832
* Smithsonian Institution
* United States v. The Amistad
* Mendi Bible
* President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* President, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences

Writings|

* Lifelong diary
* Massachusetts Historical Society holdings
* Adams Papers Editorial Project

Life and
homes|

* Early life
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* Peacefield
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Electoral history|

* Senate
* 1803
* 1808
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* 1824
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* 1828

Legacy|

* Bibliography
* Adams Memorial
* Adams House at Harvard University
* U.S. Postage stamps
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* Mount Quincy Adams
* USS President Adams (1941)
* USS John Adams (1963)
* Oyster-Adams Bilingual School

Popular
culture|

* Profiles in Courage (1957 book)
* 1965 television series)
* The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
* Mutiny on the Amistad (1987 book)
* Amistad (1997 film)
* John Adams (2001 book
* 2008 miniseries)

Adams political family
Quincy family|

* Louisa Adams (wife)
* George Washington Adams (son)
* Charles Francis Adams Sr. (son)
* John Adams II (son)
* Henry Adams (grandson)
* Brooks Adams (grandson)
* John Quincy Adams II (grandson)
* John Adams
* father
* presidency
* Abigail Adams
* mother
* First Lady
* Quincy political family
* Abigail Adams Smith (sister)
* Charles Adams (brother)
* Thomas Boylston Adams (brother)
* John Adams Sr. (grandfather)
* Susanna Boylston (grandmother)
* John Quincy (great-grandfather)

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