Talk:John Quincy Adams

Internal improvements during JQA?

Article text: The Adams administration also saw the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; the construction of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the Falls of the Ohio; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

All of which is true, but it implies that the Adams administration somehow was involved in these undertakings, other than them being in line with the President's hopes and aspirations.

• The bill chartering the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was signed during Monroe's presidency. It was finance by private capital and supported by the taxpayers of Maryland.

• The $450,000 federal investment in the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal took place when the company was originally formed in 1799.

• The Louisville and Portland Canal was built and run by a private company chartered in Kentucky. In May 1826, the United States Congress voted to purchase 1,000 shares. JQA did not use his veto, but was otherwise not involved.

• I have not seen that the federal government was involved in the deepening of the Dismal Swamp Canal.

None of the above was the doings of JQA! Creuzbourg (talk) 15:33, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Changin' Adams' Wikipedia Picture: Reboot

I'd like to propose a change in photographs: the partial citation at the bottom is of a colorized photograph of JQA that would make a more inspired visual (in my opinion). I think the candid setting and the quality of the colorization takes you back to 1840; it enriches the article. If there's a representational issue with using digitally or otherwise artificially colorized images than using "primary sources" then I'd just like to point out that the current daguerrotype displayed is visibly penciled in. Between the two images I think the colorized one is more appropriate.

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Possible category to be added

I have created a new category, "Children who followed their parents as heads of state". John Quincy Adams fits the criteria. But Editor Drdpw feels that the article has too many categories and that this category is trivial. Many feel Wikipedia is becoming a hostile environment. I want this to be an exception. What the majority chooses will be acceptable with me. Pete unseth (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 April 2022

In the section on his later congressional career appears the sentence: "After the crisis, Adams was convinced that Southerners exercised undue influence over the federal governmen [sic] through their control of Jackson's Democratic Party."

"governmen" should be changed to "government" MrFunEGUY (talk) 03:16, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

 Erledigt Cannolis (talk) 03:28, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Photo captions

Several of the photo captions in the article give his name as “Quincy Adams”, implying that he had a double surname, when in fact his surname was just Adams Someonefromohio (talk) 19:58, 5 May 2022 (UTC)