Public service was in the Adams family DNA: John and Abigail’s oldest son, John Quincy Adams, became America’s sixth President. After an unsuccessful bid at re-election, he served for 17 years ...

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The Fox host’s insistence that black laborers building the White House were “well-fed and had decent lodgings” fits in a long history of insisting the “peculiar institution” wasn’t so bad.

Actors dressed as President Abraham Lincoln, center, and first lady Abigail Adams, right, look up as they watch President Barack Obama depart the White House aboard Marine One in Washington, D.C ...

In November 1800, Adams and his wife Abigail became the first president and first lady to reside in the White House. Adams began his public career as a Massachusetts lawyer.

John Adams was brilliant, argumentative, sometimes irascible. Abigail Adams was a savvy observer of the tumultuous political scene, not afraid to speak her mind in an age when women were excluded ...

1735: John Adams is born. 1744: Abigail Adams is born. 1762: John and Abigail meet and begin courting. 1764: John and Abigail are married in Weymouth, move to John’s house in Braintree, now in ...

Of the first seven presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the only ones who did not bring enslaved people into the White House, according to the White House Historical Association.

Born to John and Abigail Adams on July 11, 1767, in Braintree (now Quincy), Mass., John Quincy Adams was immersed in the Enlightenment values embraced by both of his parents.