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Preferred Citation:

John Quincy Adams Letter to St. George Tucker, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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Purchase.

Biographical Information:

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848) was a diplomat, politician, and President   of the United States (March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829). His party affiliations were Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Whig. Adams was the son of U.S. President   John Adams, and Abigail Adams. He is most famous as a diplomat involved in many international negotiations, and for formulating the Monroe Doctrine. As president   he proposed a grand program of modernization and educational advancement, but was unable to get it through Congress. Late in life, as a Congressman, he was a leading opponent of the Slave Power, arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a policy followed by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Scope and Contents

John Quincy Adams to St. George Tucker, August 5, 1819, sending him 12 bound volumes of the Fifteeth Congress, First session [4 vols. Extant in Tucker's library].

Related Material

Mss. 40 T79 Tucker-Coleman Papers

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Letters (correspondence)
• Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827
• United States Congress