John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, born July 11, 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts, and died February 23, 1848, in the United States Capitol, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829, the son of second president John Adams. He won the disputed 1824 election in the House of Representatives after no candidate secured a majority of electoral votes, a result his opponents denounced as a corrupt bargain after he named Speaker Henry Clay his Secretary of State. After losing reelection in 1828, he returned to national politics as a member of the House of Representatives, where he served until his death and became a leading opponent of slavery, notably arguing successfully before the Supreme Court for the freedom of the African captives aboard the ship Amistad in 1841.