Jeffrey A. Denman

Adams stood and noted that he would remain silent until the House acted on one of the resolutions. He restated the facts, and then...

February 6, 1837 began with Adams presenting two petitions, the first from nine women from Fredericksburg, Virginia, praying not for the...

Adams was about to find out how serious the petition process was to become on the floor of the House. By early February, Henry Pinckney...