Born: July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Mass.
Died: February 23, 1848 at the Capital Building, Washington DC
- Senator and Representative from Massachusetts
- Vice President - John C. Calhoun
- Early education at University of Leyden in Europe.
- 1787 - Studied law and graduated from Harvard.
- 1794 - Minister to Netherlands
- 1796 - Minister to Portugal
- 1797 - Minister to Prussia
- 1798 - Commissioned to make a commercial treaty with Sweeden
- 1802 - Elected to the Mass. State Senate (unsuccessful candidate for house that same year)
- 1803 - Elected as a Federalist to the U.S. Senate from March 4, 1803 - June 8, 1808
- 1809 - 1814 - Minister to Russia; Treaty of Ghent 1814
- 1815 - 1817 - Minister to England
- 1817 - 1825 - Secretary of State under President Monroe
- Decision of President fell, in the 1824 election, on the House of Representatives. None of the candidates had the majority of votes, so Adams was chosen as the 6th President of the United States and served from March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1829.
- Elected as a Republican to the House for the 22nd and to the 8th succeeding Congresses, becoming a whig in 1834. Served from March 4, 1831 until his death.
- Committee on Manufactures, Committee on Indian Affairs, and Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- 1834 - Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts
- Internment in the family burial ground in Quincy, Mass., then reinterred at United First Parish Church.
President's Park in South Dakota in 2005
Tombs of Presidents John Adams (far left) and John Quincy Adams (right) and their wives Abigail and Louisa, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church.
