He was selected by the House of Representatives. Speaker Clay threw his support behind Adams, who won the presidency and later named Clay as secretary of state. When he was 14 years old, he had had a “crush” on an actress he saw perform in France, and for years afterward, he confessed, she was in his dreams. In his prepresidential years he was one of America’s greatest diplomats—formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine—and in his postpresidential years (as a U.S. congressman, 1831–48) he fought against the expansion of slavery. As a young lawyer, Adams wrote articles defending the neutrality policy of George Washington’s presidential administration regarding the war between France and Britain in 1793. John Quincy Adams: Off the Map. Actually, John Quincy Adams (JQA) would be about 30 when his dad assumed office. In 1825, the House elected John Quincy Adams, but the resulting controversy haunted him for the entirety of his term and was a factor in his defeat for reelection in 1828. Growing up during the American Revolution, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from Penn’s Hill and heard the cannons roar across the Back Bay in Boston. He was the second cousin of John Adams and the ...read more, John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), was a prominent U.S. statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. Self-appreciative, like most of the Adams clan, he once declared that, if his diary had been even richer, it might have become "next to the Holy Scriptures, the most precious and valuable book ever written by human hands.". John Quincy Adams began his diplomatic career as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands in 1794, and served as minister to Prussia during the presidential administration of his father, the formidable patriot John Adams. He retired to private life in Massachusetts only briefly, winning election to the House of Representatives in 1830. Key events in the life of John Quincy Adams. The presidency of John Quincy Adams began on March 4, 1825, when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1829.Adams, the sixth United States president, took office following the 1824 presidential election, in which he and three other Democratic-Republicans—Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson—sought the presidency. He accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France when he was 10, and would later study at European universities, eventually becoming fluent in seven languages. John Quincy Adams, nicknamed “Old Man Eloquent” is the sixth President of the United States. In 1803 the Massachusetts legislature elected him a member of the Senate of the United States. Yet she proved to be a gracious hostess who played the harp and was learned in Greek, French, and English literature. A native of Kentucky, Breckinridge began his political career as a state representative before serving in the ...read more, Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Marshall, who had almost no formal schooling and studied law for only six weeks, nevertheless remains the only judge in American history whose distinction as a statesman derived almost entirely from his judicial career. In 1809, President James Madison called Adams back into diplomatic service, appointing him ambassador to the Russian court of Czar Alexander I. The 1824 election was a four-way race: John He was secretary of state under James Monroe. A member of multiple political part Keep reading to learn more about these coins. Author of. Adams had first met her when he was 12 years old and his father was minister to France. He was the first President who was a son of a President. Omissions? Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. He moved to Europe at the age of 10 and was educated in Paris and Amsterdam. He grew up as a child of the American Revolution. Abigail and John Quincy Adams. On this day in 1825, John Quincy Adams is elected sixth President of the United States. Instead of remaining in London with his father, who had been appointed United States minister to the Court of St. James’s, he chose to return to Massachusetts, where he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1787. In 1778 and again in 1780 the boy accompanied his father to Europe. Question: He was the sixth U.S. president. Travel Images / UIG / Getty Images. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Quincy-Adams, The White House - Biography of John Quincy Adams, U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - Biography of John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), John Quincy Adams - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), presidency of the United States of America. He spent his early years in Europe with his father, graduated from Harvard, and entered law practice. He studied at a private school in Paris in 1778–79 and at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, in 1780. © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. As secretary of state under James Monroe, Adams played a key role in determining the president’s foreign policy, including the famous Monroe Doctrine. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. He is considered one of the greatest diplomats and secretaries of state in American history. Young Adams’s official dispatches to the secretary of state and his informal letters to his father, who was then the vice president, kept the government well informed of the diplomatic activities and wars of the distressed Continent and the danger of becoming involved in the European vortex. After drafting the Massachusetts Constitution, John Adams traveled to Europe and ultimately negotiated and signed the Treaty of Paris which concluded the American Revolutionary War. He was born into one of America’s wealthiest families and parlayed an elite education and a reputation as a ...read more, Samuel Adams was a Founding Father of the United States and a political theorist who protested British taxation without representation, uniting the American colonies in the fight for independence during the Revolutionary War. Adams carried the New England states, most of New York and a few districts elsewhere, but finished behind Jackson (who won Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and most of the West) in both the electoral and popular votes. John Quincy Adams then began serving (like his father before him) as U.S. minister to Great Britain; his son, Charles Francis Adams, would go on to hold the same post during the American Civil War. John Quincy Adams: From Diplomat to President, John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States. Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848) sixth U.S. president; born in Braintree (later Quincy), Mass. Adams returned to Massachusetts in 1785 and entered Harvard College, graduating two years later. Access hundreds of hours of historical video, commercial free, with HISTORY Vault. Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States: in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. By . The Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated Adams began his career as a lawyer. Because no one had a majority, the House of Representatives chose between the three top candidates. John Quincy Adams was the eldest son of John and Abigail Adams. – John Quincy Adams. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1790, after which he set up a law practice in Boston. However these coins in uncirculated condition can sell for a premium. Birthplace of John Quincy Adams, in Quincy (formerly Braintree), Massachusetts, photograph. The eldest son, George Washington Adams, was a gambler, womanizer, and alcoholic whose death by drowning may have been suicide. John Quincy Adams got his middle name from his maternal great-grandfather, John Quincy, who was a prominent politician in Massachusetts. Adams achieved many diplomatic accomplishments in this post, including negotiating the joint occupation of Oregon with England and acquiring Florida from Spain. Adams resigned his Senate seat in June 1808 and returned to Harvard, where he had been made a professor. On that occasion, the president unbent and danced the Virginia reel. The Hague was then the best diplomatic listening post in Europe for the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France. A third son, Charles Francis Adams, brought honour to the family name once again, being elected to the House of Representatives and serving as United States minister to England during the American Civil War. Sterling Professor of Diplomatic History and Inter-American Relations, Yale University, 1945–61. 5. John Quincy Adams at 16 years old, 1783; copy of an engraving after a portrait by Izaak Schmidt, located in the Old House, Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, Massachusetts. After serving in the Massachusetts State Senate and the U.S. Senate, the younger Adams rejoined diplomatic service under President James Madison, helping to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent (1814), which ended the War of 1812. Ultimately, Adams could see that, in marrying a rich heiress like Louisa Johnson, he might be able to enjoy the leisure to pursue a career as a writer, but her family suffered business reverses and declared bankruptcy only a few weeks after the wedding. He watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from Penn’s Hill and heard the cannons roar across the Back Bay in Boston. He served as a leading congressman for the rest of his life, earning the nickname “Old Man Eloquent” for his passionate support of freedom of speech and universal education, and especially for his strong arguments against slavery, the “peculiar institution” that would tear the nation apart only decades later. https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-quincy-adams. While struggling to establish a practice, he wrote a series of articles for the newspapers in which he controverted some of the doctrines in Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791). John Quincy Adams swam naked in the Potomac, kept an alligator in the White House and won freedom for Africans who mutinied on the slave ship Amistad. In a study conducted in 2008, a fitness chain concluded that John Quincy Adams was the fittest president in American history, thanks to his habit of walking more than three miles daily and swimming in the Potomac River during his presidency. 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