1. John Quincy Adams won that contingent election.

2. 24 "There's John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Quincy Adams, then Abraham Lincoln and in the 20th century just Woodrow Wilson, " he said.

3. Wise, a Southern member of Congress and a future Confederate general, called John Quincy Adams ‘the acutest, the Astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed’.

4. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.

5. John Adams considered slavery “an evil of colossal magnitude” and John Quincy Adams was called “the acutest, the Astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed” by a fellow Congressman from