The 6th U.S President " John Quincy Adams" , President of The United States

John Quincy Adams: The only president who was the son of another president. John Quincy Adams matched his position in many aspects and temperament and views to those of his illustrious father. He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, I see the battle of Bunker Hill from the highest point of Penn Hill, on the family farm. As secretary of his father in Europe, he became an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist one. lawyer after graduating from Harvard University was made. At the age of 26 he was appointed minister in the Nordic countries, then was promoted to lz Legion of Berlin. In 1802 he was elected to the US Senate. He appointed him six years later President Madison Minister to Russia. Serving under the mandate of President Monroe, Adams was one of the great Secretaries of State in America, England agreeing with the joint occupation of Oregon County, obtaining from Spain the yield of the Floridas, and formulating with the President the Monroe Doctrine. In the political tradition in the early 19th century, Adams as Secretary of State was regarded as the political heir to the presidency. But the old ways of electing a president in 1824 led to the clamor of a popular election. Within the first and only party - the Republican - facsismo division and developed, and each division push its own candidate for president. Adams, the candidate of the north, fell behind Gen. Andrew Jackson in both popular and electoral votes, but received more than William H. Crawford and Henry Clay.

Since no candidate had a majority of electoral votes, the election was decided among the three with the highest vote the House of Representatives. Clay, who favored a similar program to that of Adams, threw his crucial support in the House to the New English. As would become President, Adams appointed Clay as his Secretary of State. Jackson and his angry followers charged that a "corrupt business" had occurred and immediately began to wrest the presidency of Adams in 1828. Knowing well that face hostility in Congress campaign, however Adams proclaimed in his first Annual Message a spectacular national program . He proposed that the Federal Government shall assemble the sections with a network of roads and canals, and it develop and retain the public domain, using funds from the sale of state land. In 1828, I prepare the ground for the C & O Canal 185 miles long. Adams also urged him to the United States to take the lead in the development of the arts and sciences through the establishment of a national university, financing of scientific expeditions, and the construction of an observatory. Suscríticos stated that such measures exceeded constitutional limitations.

The campaign of 1828, in which his Jacksonian opponents accused him of corruption and public plunder, was an ordeal and very difficult to pass to Adams. After his defeat he returned to Massachusetts, expecting to spend the rest of his life enjoying his farm and his books. Unexpectedly, in 1830, the Plymouth District elected to the House of Representatives, where he served the rest of his life as a powerful leader. Above all, he fought against circumscription of civil liberties. In 1836 Southern members of Congress passed a "gag gubrnamental" providing that the House automatically enter into petitions against slavery. Adams fought incansablemenete far for eight years until he finally got his derrogación. In 1848, he collapsed on the floor of the House on a motion and was taken to the room of the Speaker, where two days later he died. He was buried - like his father, mother and wife - at First Parish Church in Quincy. In the end, the "Old Man Eloquent" had fought for what he believed was right.