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John Quincy Adams
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| | Order: | 6th President |
| Term of Office: | March 4, 1825– March 3, 1829 |
| Followed: | James Monroe |
| Succeeded by: | Andrew Jackson |
| Date of Birth | July 11, 1767 |
| Place of Birth: | Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Date of Death: | February 23, 1848 |
| Place of Death: | Washington, D.C. |
| First Lady: | Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams |
| Occupation: | lawyer |
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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. He is the first President whose father was also President. The second one is George W. Bush.
1 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. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was appointed Minister to the Netherlands in 1794, Minister to Portugal in 1796 and Minister to Prussia in 1797.
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 to Russia from 1809 to 1814, a member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and Minister to England from 1815 to 1817.
He was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825. As Secretary of State, he negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty and helped develop the Monroe Doctrine.
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.
