John Quincy Adams was in his 30’s when he served in the senate. You’re probably thinking of his service in the House after his presidency.
Yeah, I know. Plenty of house members have died in office. It is about as common as being defeated in a re-election bid. But with the exception of JQA, they all just "hold" the seat like Ted Kennedy did while doing nothing other than issuing press releases.
John Quincy actually died with his boots on. The house was passing a voice vote with "ayes" and he alone stood and objected with a loud "nay", suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage on the spot from which he died two days later.
Yes...I stand corrected. THe House. Obviously, there are opposing views to the man, and he’s not perfect, but I like his ideas, I like his record over all. He’d be like having a veteran quarterback on your team.
We need people like him, Ted Cruz and others more than ever. Instead it looks like we’re getting another course of “Warm Milk” GOPers. And the young thinkers rammed down are throats are the likes of Fatso Christie?
It looks like the heat he took for questioning Paul Ryan was for naught. A bunch of us here, esp Ann Coulter, and in the media lamb-blasted him for even questioning Golder Boy, Paul Ryan, now it looks like he was right.