Grant’s Inaugural Ball
In 1873, the inaugural ball for President Ulysses S. Grant was held. The event was to be one of the most beautiful, and the addition of canaries was supposed to ensure that. However at the time, temperatures dipped so severely that all the canaries froze to death! Some thought it to be symbolic, while others simply continued having a good time.
Grants Inaugural Ball
John Quincy Adams
The 6th US President who was in office from 1825 to 1829, John Quincy Adams, or also known as JQA, was the son of John Adams, a former president and a founding father. JQA was a staunch pro-equal rights and anti-slavery activist and he even called himself “the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed.” Adams preferred not to get involved in European politics and he strongly advocated non-intervention policies. In addition, he was strongly against the Texas annexation and his photo holds the record when it comes to the oldest surviving presidential picture, which was taken in 1843 when JQA was 76 years old.
John Quincy Adams
