John Quincy Adams Research Paper

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John Quincy adams was the 6th president of the United States of America. He was born July 11, 1767 in Braintree Massachusetts. He was the second child, but was the only boy. John Quincy Adams witnessed the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 75). He studied at European Universities. He soon became fluent in seven different languages. He had returned to his hometown in 1785. He attended at Harvard college and graduated two years later. He associated with law school and became a lawyer. Later on, he set up a law practice in Boston. He had a very good education. In 1794 Washington decided to make him U.S. minister to the Netherlands. Later on in life he married Louisa catherine Johnson. They had first met in London. When they had children one died as an infant and the other two died in their adulthood. In 1802, Adams he was elected to the Mattectues state senate, and the state legislature chose him to serve the U.S. senate, he was a well known as the federalist party. Years later Adams resigned his senate seat on June 1808, and then returned to Harvard and was made a professor. On 1817 president James …show more content…

They could sometimes not even see each other for weeks and they even took separate vacations.As president he always woke up early and made his own fire and read his bible. In Adams young years he enjoyed, swimming,reading, observing nature, horseback riding, and attending the theatre. John Quincy Adams was named after his great grandfather John Quincy. John Quincy Adams’ father was also president. Adams wrote entries in his diary everyday, from when he was twenty-nine until death. John Quincy Adams presidency had many “gloomy moments often leaving him depressed and feeling down. Johns wife is said to have sometimes deeply regretted to of have married into the Adam’s family because it was stressful especially the deaths of her

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