5 ft 7.5 in (171.5 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
How tall was John Quincy Adams?
John Quincy Adams is commonly listed at 5 ft 7.5 in (171.5 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
John Quincy Adams’s 5 ft 7.5 in (171.5 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 32 in 100 US men are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 5 ft 8 in
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John Quincy Adams beside others
John Quincy Adams is one of the shorter US presidents we have heights for: Abraham Lincoln (6 ft 4 in) stands 8.5 in (21.6 cm) taller and James Madison (5 ft 4 in) is 3.5 in (8.9 cm) shorter. All 45 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 7.5 in: Lindsey Graham and Gabriel Boric.
- Sukarno: 5 ft 7.5 in (172 cm), 0.2 in (0.6 cm) taller than John Quincy Adams.
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