John Quincy Adams & Sam Houston were 2 of the 8 brave senators JFK wrote about in this Pulitzer-winning 1956 book
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Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston... [DOC] [TLE] Profiles in Courage | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ... [PAR] The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents 
... of courage by an earlier senator from Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, that 
gave ... Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.