Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams was born on July 11 in the year 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts now known as Quincy, Massachusetts. John never went to school; he was tutored by his cousin James Thax, and by fathers lawyer, Nathan Rice. Adams was named after his mothers’s grandfather, Colonel John Adams, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, was also named. At the age 12, in 1779, John Quincy Adams started to write a diary, which he continued until just before he died in 1848. Most of his early John’s childhood was spent with his father while traveling overseas. His father, John Adams, also served as an American envoy to France from 1778 to 1779, and to the Netherlands from 1780 to 1782, so John Quincy Adams had a lot of adventures with
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Then he studied law with Theophilus Parsons until 1789, he then went back to Harvard and returned with a masters degree. Adams first became famous when he published a series of essays supporting George Washington plan of staying out of the French Revolution. At the age of 26, John was appointed “Minister to the Netherlands” by Washington. At first John was wary of the idea, but after a little persuasion from his father, John was on his way to the Netherlands. On his trip, he delivered some documents to John Jay, who was forming the Jay Treaty. After some talking, John wrote to his father, supporting the treaty, because he thought that America should stay out of European affairs; according to Historian Paul Nagel, Washington used parts of this letter to draft his “farewell address”4. During his trips from The Hague to London, Adams met and proposed to his future wife Louisa Catharine Johnson. After his term as Minister to the Netherlands, Adams wanted to resign but was assigned the position “Minister to Portugal” in 1796. During this time, Adams was appointed to the Berlin Legation. Adams was finally convinced to remain in politics after he learned how highly Washington thought of him even being called "the most valuable of America's officials abroad”. When John Adams Sr. became President, he appointed his son “Minister of Prussia”; in Prussia, Adams renewed the “Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and
Then he studied law with Theophilus Parsons until 1789, he then went back to Harvard and returned with a masters degree. Adams first became famous when he published a series of essays supporting George Washington plan of staying out of the French Revolution. At the age of 26, John was appointed “Minister to the Netherlands” by Washington. At first John was wary of the idea, but after a little persuasion from his father, John was on his way to the Netherlands. On his trip, he delivered some documents to John Jay, who was forming the Jay Treaty. After some talking, John wrote to his father, supporting the treaty, because he thought that America should stay out of European affairs; according to Historian Paul Nagel, Washington used parts of this letter to draft his “farewell address”4. During his trips from The Hague to London, Adams met and proposed to his future wife Louisa Catharine Johnson. After his term as Minister to the Netherlands, Adams wanted to resign but was assigned the position “Minister to Portugal” in 1796. During this time, Adams was appointed to the Berlin Legation. Adams was finally convinced to remain in politics after he learned how highly Washington thought of him even being called "the most valuable of America's officials abroad”. When John Adams Sr. became President, he appointed his son “Minister of Prussia”; in Prussia, Adams renewed the “Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and