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Medal Name: Sixth President of the United States of America
Struck for: President John Quincy Adams
OBVERSE
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1825.
Bust of President John Quincy Adams, facing the right.
REVERSE
PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP.
Two hands clasped in token of amity; on the cuff of the left wrist three stripes,and buttons with the American eagle on them; the other wrist bare;
above the hands, a calumet and a tomahawk crossed - Indian emblems of peace and war.
BACKGROUND
John Quincy Adams, son of President John Adams, was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, July 11,1767. He spent several years of his early life in Europe with his father; was graduated at Harvard College,Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1787; was admitted to the bar in 1791, and settled in Boston; was minister to Holland, England, and Prussia, 1794-1801; United States senator, 1803-1808; minister to Russia, 1809-1814; one of the negotiators of the treaty of Ghent, 1814; secretary of State under President Monroe, 1817-1825; President of the United States, 1825-1829; representative in Congress, 1831-1848. He died in the Capitol in Washington, February 23, 1848.
Source: The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. Loubat, LL.D. (1878)