John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the first son of a President to serve President himself. In many ways his career and viewpoints paralleled his father’s. Adams, the sixth President of the United States was born in 1767, from a New England farm family in Braintree, Massachusetts. In this paper, I will discuss the life-long achievements of John Quincy Adams, and how he played a significant role in shaping the course of the United States.
John Quincy’s father, John Adams was the second President of the United States, and had John Quincy spend much time with him abroad during his reign as U.S. ambassador to England. Because his father was frequently gone, a lot of the family’s responsibilities were on his mother, Abigail Adams. It was Mrs. Abigail Adams who instilled John Quincy’s strong Christian values. “So well did his mother commit the Bible to his heart that it became for him both compass and anchor in a long life of service” (Hall 603).
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