Questionable President - John Quincy Adams

[TheGoldenBlazer]

Apparently John Quincy Adams was such a poor husband/family man that his own wife didn't even vote for him when he ran for president...why not?

 

[Jim Wynne]

If this is in reference to the fact that the election was decided in the House of Representatives, it doesn't mean that his wife didn't vote for him. There was a popular election before it went to the House.

 

[TheGoldenBlazer]

A good thought, but incorrect.

 

[Ralph Long]

My guess would be that women couldn't vote....but I'm too lazy to look it up.

 

[Ajit Basrur]

Apparently John Quincy Adams was such a poor husband/family man that his own wife didn't even vote for him when he ran for president...why not?

Was it because of her English nationality ?

 

[TheGoldenBlazer]

Ralph Long is correct, women couldn't vote until 1920.

 

[PaulJSmith]

And that relates to the assertion that he "was such a poor husband/family man" how?

 

[Jim Wynne]

Ralph Long is correct, women couldn't vote until 1920.

Ha, I looked right past that.

 

[Wes Bucey]

Ralph Long is correct, women couldn't vote until 1920.

Ha, I looked right past that.

As my grandmother, politically active throughout her life, often remarked, "Women won the right to vote for a Presidential Elector in Illinois by 1914."

Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869.

 

[Mikishots]

As my grandmother, politically active throughout her life, often remarked, "Women won the right to vote for a Presidential Elector in Illinois by 1914."

Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869.

Understood, but the nineteenth amendment wasn't ratified until the summer of 1920.