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John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth (1825-1829) President of the United States. He was the son of President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Smith.
Biography
John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, (in a part of town which is now Quincy, Massachusetts), and acquired his early education in Europe at the University of Leiden. He graduated from Harvard University in 1787, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts.
President Washington appointed him Minister to the Netherlands in 1794, Minister to Portugal in 1796 and Minister to Prussia in 1797. While serving abroad, he met Louisa Catherine Johnson, the daughter of an American merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. President to do so.)
He was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1802, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the same year. He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party.
He was Minister (ambassador) to Russia, in St. Petersburg from 1809 to 1814, a member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and Minister to Britain from 1815 to 1817. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in 1811.
He was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825, during which tenure he was instrumental in the acquisition of Florida and in keeping the U.S. from becoming dependent on England. He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not go with everyone else's opinion, and typically his were the ones that Monroe decided upon. As Secretary of State, he negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty and helped develop the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European nations not to meddle in affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
Adams received one electoral vote in the presidential election of 1820. President James Monroe ran virtually unopposed for re-election, but one elector cast his ballot for Adams, allegedly to ensure that George Washington remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the electoral college.
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