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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) — also known as "Old
Man Eloquent"; "The Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts Madman" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Quincy,
Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk County, Mass., July 11, 1767. Nephew by
marriage of Thomas Johnson; son of John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams; son-in-law of Joshua Johnson;
brother-in-law of William Stephens Smith; married, July 26, 1797, to Louisa Catherine Johnson; first cousin of
William Cranch; married to the sister-in-law of John Pope; father of George Washington Adams and Charles Francis
Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks Adams; great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); great-great-grandfather of Thomas Boylston Adams. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Netherlands,
1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1802;
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; U.S. Secretary of State, 1817-25; President of the United States, 1825-29;
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District 1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District
1843-48); died in office 1848; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1834. Unitarian. Member, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Suffered a stroke while speaking on the
floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in the Speaker's office, U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1848. Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Norfolk
County, Mass.; reinterment at United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery,
Washington, D.C. Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are named for him.
Spouse: Louisa Catherine Johnson
Born: 12 Feb 1775 in London, England
Died: 15 May 1852 in Washington, District Of Columbia
Marriage: 26 Jul 1797 in London, England
Children Sex Birth
George Washington Adams M 12 Apr 1801 in Berlin, Prussia
John Adams M 4 Jul 1803 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Charles Francis Adams M 18 Aug 1807 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Louisa Catherine Adams F 12 Aug 1811 in St Petersburg, Russia
Sources:
United States Federal Census
Vital Records
The Political Graveyard
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