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Thursday, December 25, 2008

JOHN TYLER, 10TH PRESIDENT - John Tyler was sworn in as President on April 6, 1841. He was the first Vice President to assume the office of President upon the death of a sitting President (William Henry Harrison). After his presidency, when the Civil War broke out, Tyler was elected to the Confederate Congress, but died shortly therafter.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 6TH PRESIDENT - John Quincy Adams was sworn in as our sixth President on March 4, 1825. He was the first President to be inaugurated wearing long trousers. He was also the first President to be the son of a previous President, with his father John Adams having served as our nation's first Vice President and second President. He was also the first President to be photographed.

JOHN ADAMS, 2ND PRESIDENT - John Adams was inaugurated as our second President on March 4, 1797. He was the first president to be administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who at that time was Oliver Ellsworth. During the American Revolution, Adams was perhaps the leading individual in the Continental Congress and served as a minister to France. When George Washington was elected our nation's first President, Adams was elected as the first Vice President. He then was elected President himself when Washington retired. Adams quote - "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over this earth."