Bitter Ex-President Sabotages Texas Statehood
Bitter Ex-President Sabotages Texas Statehood On July 9, 1838, John Quincy Adams, the only president to have a second life as a congressman, resumed his anti-Texas diatribe on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Though 70 years old and in declining health, the New Englander had lost none of his missionary zeal. Adams
