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John Quincy Adams, the son of the second President of the United States, became the sixth President of the United States. But the road to that prize was anything but smooth. Jane Hampton Cook, author of American Phoenix, tells how this formidable and intimidating man overcame every obstacle in his path.

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Imagine your father expected you to grow up to be President of the United States.

Now imagine you did.

That was John Quincy Adams.

His father, John Adams, was a leading figure in the American Revolution and the second President of the United States.

That’s a lot to live up to.

But John Quincy did it… and more.

Born on July 11, 1767, near Boston, he grew up in a time of turmoil. At the age of seven, in 1775, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near his family home.

In 1778, Congress sent his father to Paris to help convince the French to support the American War of Independence. John Quincy traveled with him – a ten-year-old diplomat in training.

And what a training it was.

For the next seven years, in addition to France, John Quincy lived in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and Sweden, learning first-hand the art of diplomacy.

By the time he returned to the United States in 1785 at the age of 18, he had absorbed not only the customs of these countries but learned to speak their languages as well.

After graduating from Harvard, he took up the law. But reading legal documents all day bored him to tears. The world was changing fast, and he wanted to be in the middle of it.

Which is right where he landed.

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  24. The Monroe Doctrine was a DEAD LETTER , a one sided declaration with no recognition by anybody else. – the British and French influence remained in the Americas and Spain's declined because of the increase in British influence following from the Peninsular War. More propagandist nonsense.

  25. More nonsense about the Napoleonic War in North America 1812-15 being a 'victory' for the US.
    Britain had no territorial claims on the US. Madison attempted to take over Canada and was DESTROYED in the process, Buffalo razed, New York declaring itself neutral, the coastline depredated by the Royal Navy, the Congressional forces routed at Bladensburg, the Capitol, White House and other parts of DC burned down, Madison doing a runner; Baltimore besieged and no counter attack from it.
    If the US 'won' it was uniquely the only Bonapartist confederate which did. Just what did the US gain from a victory which had clear aims and failed in.?
    The Treaty of Ghent followed from the general European settlement of status quo ante and the US had to accept it could not claim Canada and that all territorial disputes to the West would be settled by negotiation.

  28. Ah, the first stonewalling by democrats. Oppose the president at every turn, preventing him from taking action, then criticize him for lack of action to win the following election. A tactic they've used at every opportunity since.

  32. Fun fact: John Quincy Adams would go for skinny dips in the tributary of Timber Creek, apocryphally it was during one of these swims that Anne Royall became the first woman to interview a sitting US president by gathering his clothes and sitting on them until he agreed to answer her questions.