Mount Quincy Adams (Fairweather Range)

Mountain in Alaska, U.S. and British Columbia, Canada

Mount Quincy Adams

Mount Quincy Adams in upper left, with Mount Tlingit below/left of it. Aerial view by Austin Post. 1972

Highest point
Elevation| 4,150 m (13,620 ft)[1]
Prominence| 410 m (1,350 ft)[1]
Listing|

* Mountains of Alaska
* Mountains of British Columbia

Coordinates| 58°54′32″N 137°27′05″W﻿ / ﻿58.90889°N 137.45139°W﻿ / 58.90889; -137.45139[2]
Geography

Mount Quincy Adams

Alaska Panhandle / Stikine Region, British Columbia

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Mount Quincy Adams

Mount Quincy Adams (British Columbia)

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Parent range| Fairweather Range
Topo map| USGS Mount Fairweather D-5
Canada NTS 114I14 Mount Root
Climbing
First ascent| Bradford Washburn,
H. Adams Carter, 1934[3]

Mount Quincy Adams (alternate Name Boundary Peak 163) is a mountain located on the border between United States and Canada. It is named after John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth president of the United States.

The southern and eastern flanks of the mountain are in Glacier Bay National Park, in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska. The northern and northwestern flanks are in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park, in Stikine Region, British Columbia, making it the second highest peak in British Columbia. Mount Quincy Adams is flanked to the west by Mount Fairweather 4,671 m (15,325 ft).

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Mount Quincy Adams". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2006-10-10.
2. ^ "Mount Quincy Adams". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2006-10-10.
3. ^ "Mount Quincy Adams". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2006-10-10.

## External links[edit]

* Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia: Quincy Adams

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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)

Presidency|

* Inauguration
* American System
* Internal improvements
* Tariff of 1828
* First Treaty of Prairie du Chien
* Treaty of Fond du Lac
* Treaty of Limits
* United States Naval Observatory
* State of the Union Address, 1825
* 1827
* 1828
* Federal judiciary appointments

Other
events|

* Monroe Doctrine, author
* Treaty of Ghent
* Adams–Onís Treaty
* 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
* Abigail Adams Cairn
* John Quincy Adams and abolitionism
* Adams National Historical Park
* Birthplace and family home
* Peacefield
* Stone Library
* United First Parish Church and gravesite

Electoral history|

* Senate
* 1803
* 1808
* Presidential runs
* 1824
* Corrupt Bargain
* 1828

Legacy|

* Bibliography
* Adams Memorial
* Adams House at Harvard University
* U.S. Postage stamps
* Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar
* Mount Quincy Adams
* USS President Adams (1941)
* USS John Adams (1963)

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 family
Quincy family|

* Louisa Adams (wife)
* George W. Adams (son)
* Charles 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 family
* Abigail Adams Smith (sister)
* Charles Adams (brother)
* Thomas Boylston Adams (brother)
* John Adams Sr. (paternal grandfather)
* Susanna Boylston (paternal grandmother)
* Elihu Adams (paternal uncle)
* John Quincy (great-grandfather)

Related|

* National Republican Party
* Republicanism
* Quincy Patriot

* ← James Monroe
* Andrew Jackson →

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