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John Quincy Adams
By PAUL C. NAGEL
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- My head is much too fickle, my thoughts are running after birds eggs, play, and trifles, till I get vexed with myself.
On October 25, , in the parsonage at Weymouth, a coastal village in Massachusetts south of Boston, the local pastor solemnized the marriage of his daughter. Standing in the parlor, Abigail Smith, second child of the Reverend William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy Smith, took as husband John Adams, resident of nearby Braintree and a rising lawyer in the colony of Massachusetts Bay.
The couple's first child, born on July 14, , was named Abigail, though the family always called her Nabby. Second in line was John Quincy Adams, born July 11, Until his college years, he was known as Johnny, and thereafter usually as John, despite occasional confusion with his father. To avoid this, as a youngster Johnny began signing himself as "JQA," a practice that he continued through life and that his family often adopted.
After Johnny's birth, other siblings soon followed. Another sister, Susanna, died in February after barely a year of life. Then Charles arrived on May 29, , and Thomas Boylston Adams was born on September 15,
These Adams children had an ancestry
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John Quincy Adams
For John Quincy Adams, it was the low point, and nearly the end.
He was a child prodigy, and started off from a ridiculously early age hobnobbing (via his father) with some of the great names in Europe, and became a key member of America's nascent diplomatic corps throughout most of his younger adulthood, becoming Secretary of State (then a far more powerful position) under a president of a different party. He negotiated the Treaty of Ghent with the Brits, the annexation of Florida with Spain, and essentially crafted the "Monroe" Doctrine.
As President -- then the logical next step after Secretary of State -- JQA was something of a bust. He did not believe in campaigning for himself, his speeches were overly intellectual, and his election vs. Andrew Jackson was so close it had to go to the House of Representatives -- where an apparent deal with Henry Clay led to his victory -- and accusations of a political payoff that crippled his effectiveness, especially with Jacksonians gaining in power over his single administration.
His crushing defeat by Jackson should have been the end of hi
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John Quincy Adams's America
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