BIRTHDAY: John Quincy Adams (Birthday 11th July) – Sixth President of United States, Biography of John Quincy Adams on Childhood, Political Career.

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of United States, was born on 11 July, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts. As a young school boy John Quincy Adams saw the battle of Bunker Hill from the peak of Penn’s Hill over the family farm. In Europe as a personal member to his father, John Quincy Adams became an assiduous diarist and accomplished linguist.

Biography of John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the son of the 2nd president, John Adams. Union and Independence were the motto of his career. Waiting the voting of 2000, “Second Adams” was the merely son to become a president. Indeed his parents qualified him for the place of work. John Quincy Adams mother told his son that one day the whole state would relax upon his shoulder.

During the time of the American Revolt, John Quincy Adams got his schooling principally under the instruction of his renowned father and talented mother, the unparallel Abigail. At the age of ten, John Quincy Adams went with his father on embassy mission to Europe. At Paris he educated French confidently in the private school. Then he educated at the Institution of Higher education of Leaden.

John Quincy Adams was already unusual in many classical languages, mathematics and History when he came back to the United States in 1785 to complete his official learning at Harvard. After learning law at Newburyport, Mass under the guidance of Theophilus Parsons, he completed his practice at Boston in 1790.

John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams graduated from Harvard University in 1787 and after it he took the degree of a lawyer. At the age of 26 he was fixed a minister to the Netherlands and later he became a member of the Berlin Legation. He was nominated to the United States Senate in 1802. After six years the President Madison selected him a minister to Russia.

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Presidential Highlights: John Quincy Adams

Sixth President of the United States (1825–1829)

•John Quincy Adams Born on: 11July, 1767, in Braintree (Quincy), Mass.
•Higher Education of John Quincy Adams: In Harvard College (B.A., 1787).
•Religious Affiliation: Unitarian.
•Occupation of John Quincy Adams: Lawyer.
•Marriage for John Quincy Adams: 26thJuly, 1797, with Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852).
•Children for John Quincy Adams: John (1803–1834) George Washington (1801–1829); Charles Francis (1807–1886); Louisa Catherine (1811–1812).
•Military Service by John Quincy Adams: None.
•Party Affiliations of John Quincy Adams: Federalist, Democratic-Republican; Whig.
•Legal Residence When Elected: Massachusetts.
•Position before Taking Office: Secretary of State.
•Principal Writings of John Quincy Adams: Memoirs, 12 vols. (1874–1877); Writings of John Quincy Adams, 7 vols. (1913–1917).
•John Quincy Adams Died on: Feb. 23, 1848, at D.C. in Washington, at the age of 80.
•Burial Place: First Unitarian Church in Quincy, Mass.

Cabinet Members and Other Officials: Adams Administration

Office	Name	Term
Vice President	John C. Calhoun	1825–1829
Secretary of the State	Henry Clay	1825–1829
Secretary of the Treasury	Richard Rush	1825–1829
Secretary of the War	James Barbour	1825–1828
	Peter B. Porter	1828—1829
Attorney General	William Wirt	1825–1829
Postmaster General	John McLean	1825–1829
Secretary of Navy	Samuel L. Southard	1825–1829

The Adams Legacy:

A man of grumpy exterior and assurance of manner, John Quincy Adams was known to supreme judgments of his political opponents. Before Woodrow Wilson, he was the famous scholar in politics. His components voted him to congress from 1830. He expired in the House of Representatives on 23rd, 1848. “This is the last of earth. I am content.”

Adams’s three sons, the youngest son Charles Francis Adams, minister of Britain, endured him. Charles Francis Adams abbreviated for publication significant sections of his father’s colossal diary, which negotiate over 60 years of his astonishing life. Charles Francis Bacon had four sons in which three eminent historians-Charles Francis Adams, Brooke Adams and Henry Adams kept on the customs of the Adams’ family.

Quote

"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
But 'tis so in the song.
My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still should long for more.”
- The Wants of Man

Adams expired in the Capitol Building, Washington; D.C. his funeral was placed near the family burial at Quincy Massachusetts in the United First Parish Church.

Last Words

This is the last of earth! I am content.
- Life of John Quincy Adams, his last words