Adams was the representative for Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1847 to 1849.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847; the representative for Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district as a Whig from 1843 to 1845; the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Whig from 1839 to 1843; the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as an Anti Masonic from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Massachusetts’s 12th congressional district as an Anti Masonic from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833; President of the United States as a Democratic-Republican from 1825 to 1829; and a senator from Massachusetts as a Federalist from 1803 to 1809.
![Photo of Rep. John Quincy Adams [W-MA8, 1847-1849]](/static/legislator-photos/400702-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1831 to Feb 1848, Adams missed 615 of 4,762 roll call votes, which is 12.9%. This is better than the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1848. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
