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To: neolib who wrote (282888)	11/15/2015 6:39:57 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541703

There were others as well as him--that was how he kept getting elected in Massachusetts (although he never would have been elected to the Senate in a statewide race). But he was not infrequently "a minority of one" in the House, as JFK said in his chapter on Adams in Profiles in Courage. On the other hand, it could also be noted that Kennedy used his story as an example of a guy who was courageous but not very effective. On the third hand, it is questionable whether any abolitionist could have done anything in the House in the 1830s and 1840s, when slaveholders were very powerful, in part because of the 3/5 clause that gave them extra representation in the House. And in part because so many people were making so much money of off slavery--in the north as well as the south. I think he was also the only president who actually had a career in government after leaving office. I can't think offhand of another one, at any rate. Most of them look down on any other office after serving as president. Adams was a unique guy. EDIT: Actually, I think Hoover was appointed by Truman to run a government agency after WWII. But it wasn't an elected office.