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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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Personal name headingAdams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
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Variant(s)Adams, John Quincy, Pres. U.S., 1767-1848
J. Q. A. (John Quincy Adams), 1767-1848
A., J. Q. (John Quincy Adams), 1767-1848
See alsoUnited States. President (1825-1829 : Adams)
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Birth date1767-07-11
Death date1848-02-23
Place of birthBraintree (Mass.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationRijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Harvard University
United States. Department of State
Massachusetts. General Court. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Federal Party (U.S.)
United States. Department of State
United States. President
Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828)
United States. Congress. House
National Republican Party (U.S.)
Whig Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLawyers
Ambassadors
Cabinet officers
Presidents
Legislators
Found inHis The character of Desdemona, 1836: p. 8 (J.Q.A.)
Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 17, 2015 (Adams, John Quincy, (son of John Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams, brother-in-law of William Stephens Smith), a Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts and 6th President of the United States; born in Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1767; acquired his early education in Europe at the University of Leyden; was graduated from Harvard University in 1787; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; appointed Minister to Netherlands 1794, Minister to Portugal 1796, Minister to Prussia 1797, and served until 1801; commissioned to make a commercial treaty with Sweden in 1798; elected to the Massachusetts State senate in 1802; unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1802; 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; Minister to Russia 1809-1814; member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814; Minister to England 1815-1817, assisted in concluding the convention of commerce with Great Britain; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe 1817-1825; decision in the 1824 election of the President of the United States fell, according to the Constitution of the United States, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the states, and Adams, who stood second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral vote, was chosen and served from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829; elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834; served from March 4, 1831, until his death; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-second through Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834; died in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1848; interment in the family burial ground at Quincy, Mass.; subsequently reinterred in United First Parish Church)
U.S. Senate website, Sept. 17, 2015: Senators who served as ambassadors or held diplomatic posts (minister resident, Netherlands, 1794-1797; minister resident, Prussia, 1797-1801; minister plenipotentiary, Netherlands, 1809-1814; envoy extraodinary and minister plenipotentiary, United Kingdom, 1815-1817)
Library of Congress website, Sept. 17, 2015: Presidential election of 1824: a resource guide (John Quincy Adams, political party, Democratic-Republican)
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