"Old Man Eloquent" John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber.
He had just given an impassioned speech against the Democrat plan to expand slavery into the Western territories acquired after the Mexican-American War.
He died 2 days later without regaining consciousness.
His death was the first to be communicated over the newly invented telegraph.
The pallbearers at his funeral, February 26, 1848, included South Carolina Senator John Calhoun, Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and a freshman Congressman from Illinois - Abraham Lincoln.
A bronze marker on the U.S. House floor indicates where the desk of John Quincy Adams once stood.
The son of the second President, John Adams, John Quincy Adams had one of the longest careers in ...
