The son of Abigail and John Adams, John Quincy was born in 1767, became a lawyer in 1787, and soon entered the political arena as a diplomat. He became a U.S. senator in 1803, elected as a Federalist to represent the state of Massachusetts.
John Quincy Adams (/ˈkwɪnzi/ ( listen); July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the 6th president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the 8th United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825.
By 1770, Adams was a highly successful lawyer with perhaps the largest caseload of any attorney in Boston, and he was chosen to defend the British soldiers who were charged in the Boston Massacre in March 1770. Through his able defense, none of the accused soldiers were sent to jail.
He became a lawyer without going to law school. Though he did earn a master's degree from Harvard in 1790, Adams completed his legal education as an apprentice to the great Theophilus Parsons, who would eventually leave private practice in Boston to serve as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
Fast FactsNAME: John Adams.NICKNAME: Father of American Independence, Father of the American Navy.BORN: October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts.DIED: July 4, 1826, in Quincy, Massachusetts.TIME IN OFFICE: March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1801.VICE PRESIDENT: Thomas Jefferson.POLITICAL PARTY: Federalist.
He characterized Adams's election as a "corrupt bargain" typical of the elitist eastern "gamesters." Following a campaign marred by vicious personal attacks—Jackson's wife was called an adulteress, Adams was accused of procuring prostitutes for the Russian czar—Jackson won in a landslide.
John Adams supported building a strong defense system and remains referred to as the “Father of the American Navy.” Because Adams believed in the elite idea of Republicanism and didn't trust public opinion, he was probably one of the most disliked presidents.
a lawyerThe Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated Adams began his career as a lawyer.
Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
Roger BaldwinRoger Baldwin was a Yale-educated forty-six-year old New Haven lawyer with a reputation for defending the unfortunate when he was asked to represent the Africans of the Amistad.
He proposed that the Federal Government bring the sections together with a network of highways and canals, and that it develop and conserve the public domain, using funds from the sale of public lands. In 1828, he broke ground for the 185-mile C & 0 Canal.
While the film is loosely based on the true story of a group of Mende people from Sierra Leone, who in 1839 overpowered their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship La Amistad, it is largely a tale of white hero worship.
President John Quincy AdamsAbolitionists enlisted former US President John Quincy Adams to represent the Amistad captives' petition for freedom before the Supreme Court. Adams, then a 73-year-old US Congressman from Massachusetts, had in recent years fought tirelessly against Congress's “gag rule” banning anti-slavery petitions.