Papers of Russell Jarvis, 1816-1851.

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Papers of Russell Jarvis, 1816-1851.

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Jarvis, Russell, 1790-1853

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John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, was his father's private secretary in the White House. Russell Jarvis was a reporter for the Washington Daily Telegraph. He wrote numerous articles against the Adams administration. After a series of perceived insults, the two had a fistfight in the Capitol Rotunda on 15 Apr. 1828. An investigating committee of the House of Representatives determined that Jarvis had attacked Adams and it censured Jarvis. From the description of Papers : concernin...