The Complete State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams

A prominent diplomat and politician, John Quincy Adams served as the sixth President of the United States and was instrumental in crafting the Monroe Doctrine. The son of President John Adams, he navigated various political affiliations throughout his career. His ambitious proposals for modernization and education as president faced congressional resistance. In his later years as a Congressman, he fiercely opposed slavery, advocating for the president's war powers to abolish it, a stance that foreshadowed Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.