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    John Quincy Adams: Life Before the Presidency

    John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, in the by of Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, a few miles south of Boston. His early years were spent living alternately in Braintree and Boston, and his doting father and affectionate mother taught him mathematics, languages, and the classics. His father, John Adams, had been politically active for all of John Quincy's life, but the calling of the First Continental församling in 1774 marked a new scen in John Adams' activism. The older Adams would go on to help lead the Continental församling, draft the Declaration of Independence, and oversee the execution of the Revolutionary War. He was also absent from his children's lives more often than he was present, leaving much of their raising and education to their mother, Abigail.

    In the first year of the war, young John Quincy Adams feared for the life of his father and worried that the British might take his family hostage. Indeed,

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    John Quincy Adams

    President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

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    John Quincy Adams

    Portrait c. 1843–1848

    In office
    March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
    Vice PresidentJohn C. Calhoun
    Preceded byJames Monroe
    Succeeded byAndrew Jackson
    In office
    September 22, 1817 – March 3, 1825
    PresidentJames Monroe
    Preceded byJames Monroe
    Succeeded byHenry Clay
    In office
    April 22, 1844 – February 23, 1848
    Preceded byDixon Hall Lewis
    Succeeded byJames Iver McKay
    In office
    March 4, 1831 – February 23, 1848
    Preceded byJoseph Richardson
    Succeeded byHorace Mann
    Constituency
    In office
    March 4, 1803 – June 8, 1808
    Preceded byJonathan Mason
    Succeeded byJames Lloyd
    In office
    April 20, 1802 – March 4, 1803
    Born(1767-07-11)July 11, 1767

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    John Quincy Adams

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    Born in 1767 to one of the most consequential early American political families, John Quincy Adams became one of the most controversial Presidents of the first years of American nationhood. He was also a skilled diplomat and Secretary of State, a Senator and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

    During the American Revolution, young Adams journeyed to Europe with his father, John Adams, to assist with secretarial work and early diplomacy for the United States. Later returning to North America, John Quincy Adams attended and graduated from Harvard in 1787 and passed the Massachusetts Bar three years later in 1790. He began his political career shortly after being appointed to several key diplomatic posts to represent the United States. His first post was the Prussian capital in Berlin where he remained from 1797 to 1801, followed by an appointment to the Russian court from 1809 to 1814, and finally