Born in Massachusetts in 1767, died in Washington in 1848;
son of John Adams; graduated from Harvard in 1787; admitted
to the bar in 1791; minister to the Netherlands in 1794-97;
minister to Prussia in 1797-1801; Senator from Massachusetts
in 1803-08; professor at Harvard in 1806-09; minister to
Russia in 1809-14; minister to England in 1815-17; Secretary
of State in 1817-25; elected President in 1824; defeated for
the Presidency by Jackson in 1828; Member of Congress in
1831-48; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts in 1834; his "Diary" published in 1874-77.
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