John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States. 

Important events during President John Quincy Adam's administration were:

• The Erie Canal that connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie opened for traffic October 26, 1825.  It increased trade between the east and the west.

• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died July 4, 1826.

• Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.

• The construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began on July 4, 1828.  Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, was present for the ceremony where the first stone was laid.

John Quincy Adams was

• the first President whose father had signed the Declaration of Independence.

• the first President whose father had been President.

• the second President born in Massachusetts.

• the first President who had been elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

• the first President to wear long trousers at his inauguration.

• the President least interested in clothes. It is said that he wore the same hat for ten years.

• the first President elected without receiving the plurality of the popular votes.

• the first President whose son was married in the White House.

• the first President who was married abroad.