John Quincy Adams
6. President
11. juli 1767
Born:
London, England
February 12. 1775
Died:
Washington D.C.
May 15. 1852
Married:
London, England
July 26. 1797
Louisa Catherine Adams
John (1803 - 1834)
Charles Francis (1807 - 1886)
Louisa Catherine (1811 - 1812)
John Quincy Adams suffered a serious hearth attack while attending
a meeting in the House of Representatives.
He died two days later. His last words were:
"Thank the officers of the House. This is the last of earth. I am
content."
Massachusetts; BA (1787)
Studied law at Theophilus Parson,
Newburyport, Massachusets (1787 - 1790)
-Adams was the ready vessel, always under sail when the duties of his station required it. Punctual to every duty, death found him at the post of duty, and where else could it have found him, at any stage of his career, for the fifty years of his illustrious public life ?
-Thomas Hart Benton, 1848
offices
Ambassador to Preusen (1797 - 1801)
Member of the Massachusetts Senate (1802)
Member of the US Senate (1803 - 1808)
Ambassador to Great Britain (1815 - 1817)
Secretary of State (1817 - 1825)
Offices
Democratic Republican to 1825
Whig from 1825
president
Hall of the House of Representatives
Washington D.C.
I
am a man of reserved, cold,
austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say, a gloomy
misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a
knowledge of the actual defect in my character, I have not the pliability
to reform it
-John
Quincy Adams, 1819
Washington D.C
Age 80 years
Adams
The lives of James Madison and James Monroe (1850)