![]() ![]() House of Representatives in 1802 elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party Minister to Russia 1809-1814 nominated and confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in February 1811 but declined to serve member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 Minister to England 1815-1817, assisted in concluding the convention of commerce with Great Britain Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe 1817-1825 decision in the 1824 election of the President of the United States fell, according to the Constitution of the United States, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the states, and Adams, who stood second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral vote, was chosen and served from March 4, 1825, to Maelected as a Republican to the U.S. appointed Minister to Netherlands 1794, Minister to Portugal 1796, Minister to Prussia 1797, and served until 1801 commissioned to make a commercial treaty with Sweden in 1798 elected to the Massachusetts State senate in 1802 unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. ![]() ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, (son of John Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams, brother-in-law of William Stephens Smith), A Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts and 6th President of the United States born in Braintree, Mass., Jacquired his early education in Europe at the University of Leyden was graduated from Harvard University in 1787 studied law was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Mass. ![]()
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