Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de LaFayette, Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 31st December 1834.

John Quincy Adams

Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de LaFayette, Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 31st December 1834.

Washington:

Printed by Gales and Seaton

1835

Oration on the life and character of Gilbert Motier de LaFayette is about the French general who helped the United States in the Revolutionary War. After LaFayette’s death in 1834, John Quincy Adams memorialized him with this eulogy before a joint session of Congress. Charles G. Ferris, the American lawyer and politician to whom Adams gave (and signed) this copy of the speech, was a US representative from New York who served two consecutive terms. SF.

John Quincy Adams. Term: 1825-1829, Democratic-Republican Party

From the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane