Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NamePresident John Quincey Adams 
1948
1948Birth11 Jul 1767, Braintree, MA
Death23 Feb 18481948
FatherPresident John Adams (1735-1826)
MotherAbigail Smith (1735-1813)
Misc. Notes
Hon. John Quincy~, LL. D., b. in Braintree, in the south house on
Franklin street, Quincy, July 11. 1767; m. July 26, 1797, Louisa
Catherine Johnson, daughter of Joshua Johnson, Esq., of Maryland.
She d. 1852.
John Quincy Adams began his public career in early boyhood. Going abroad with his father when 10 years old, he derived much of his education in European courts and capitals. and served as private secretary of the minister to Russia when in his 15th year. He entered Harvard College in 1786, when 19 years of age, and graduated in 1788 studied law for 3 years in the office of Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He opened an office and began practice, but in 1794 was appointed minister to the Hague by Washington, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. By the written advice of Washington, his father, on becoming President, made him minister to Berlin, whther he went soon after being married in London, in the Fall of 1797.
He resided several years at Berlin, perfecting his knowledge of the German language, negotiating treaties of commerce with Sweden and Prussia, and travelling in the meantime. A volume of his letters on Silesia, the New England of Europe, written at this
time to his friends at home, was published and extensively circulated.
Returning to Boston he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1802, and to the U. S. Senate in 1803. His support of the measures of President Jefferson as against the Federalist party of Massachusetts, by which he had been elected, led to a spirited controversy, in consequence of which he was defeated for re-election in 1809.
President :Madison appointed him ambassador to Russia, and while serving in that capacity h~ was joined by Clay and Gallatin on the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace at Ghent. Dec. 24, 1814. He remained in London as minister of the United States, but returned to become Secretary of State to President Monroe in 1817.
He was elected to the Presidency in 1824 by the House of Representatives, and served one term.
Upon his retirement he 'was chosen to represent his district in Congress which he entered in December, 1831, and where he continued till his death seventeen years later, Feb. 23, 1848.1949
Franklin street, Quincy, July 11. 1767; m. July 26, 1797, Louisa
Catherine Johnson, daughter of Joshua Johnson, Esq., of Maryland.
She d. 1852.
John Quincy Adams began his public career in early boyhood. Going abroad with his father when 10 years old, he derived much of his education in European courts and capitals. and served as private secretary of the minister to Russia when in his 15th year. He entered Harvard College in 1786, when 19 years of age, and graduated in 1788 studied law for 3 years in the office of Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He opened an office and began practice, but in 1794 was appointed minister to the Hague by Washington, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. By the written advice of Washington, his father, on becoming President, made him minister to Berlin, whther he went soon after being married in London, in the Fall of 1797.
He resided several years at Berlin, perfecting his knowledge of the German language, negotiating treaties of commerce with Sweden and Prussia, and travelling in the meantime. A volume of his letters on Silesia, the New England of Europe, written at this
time to his friends at home, was published and extensively circulated.
Returning to Boston he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1802, and to the U. S. Senate in 1803. His support of the measures of President Jefferson as against the Federalist party of Massachusetts, by which he had been elected, led to a spirited controversy, in consequence of which he was defeated for re-election in 1809.
President :Madison appointed him ambassador to Russia, and while serving in that capacity h~ was joined by Clay and Gallatin on the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace at Ghent. Dec. 24, 1814. He remained in London as minister of the United States, but returned to become Secretary of State to President Monroe in 1817.
He was elected to the Presidency in 1824 by the House of Representatives, and served one term.
Upon his retirement he 'was chosen to represent his district in Congress which he entered in December, 1831, and where he continued till his death seventeen years later, Feb. 23, 1848.1949
Spouses
Birth12 Feb 1775, London, England
Death15 May 1852, Washington, DC
FatherJoshua Johnson
MotherCatherine Nuth
Marriage26 Jul 17971948
ChildrenGeorge Washington (1801-1829)
John (1803-1834)
Charles (1807-1886)
Louisa Catherine (Died as Child) (1811-1812)