John Quincy Adams served 17 years in the house, even returning to the house after his days as President.
John Quincy Adams
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The president John Quincy Adams served in the house of representatives after his term as president. He was president from 1825 to 1829 and served in the house from 1831 to 1848 for the state of Massachusetts.
To date, James K. Polk the United States 11th President is the only one to have served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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He served in the U. S. House of Representatives.
John Quincy Adams served one term as President then was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830. Andrew Johnson served as President, survived his impeachment and then served in the Senate beginning in 1874.
Abraham Lincoln was an attorney in Springfield, Illinois. He also served in the Lower House of the Illinois State Legislature, and he served in the U.S. House of Representatives prior to being elected President in 1860.
If the speaker has already served two terms, the president pro tempore of the seneate will become president.
Adams served in the US House of Representatives for 18 years after he was President.
John Quincy Adams. After his presidency, Adams was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830 from his home state of Massachusetts. He served in that capacity for seventeen years until his death in 1848. His nickname was "Old Man Eloquent." The 17th President, Andrew Johnson, returned to the Senate in 1875, elected from his home state of Tennessee. He served for less than 5 months before he died from a stroke, on July 31 of that year.
YesJohn Quincy Adams served in the House of Representatives 1830-46.
He served in the House of Representatives as a Whig and as President as a Republican. Today the GOP would call him a RINO.