John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the United States’ sixth president between 1825 and 1829. From 1817 to 1825, he was the eighth Secretary of State of the United States. Adams had also served as an ambassador and a member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts, during his long diplomatic and political career. He was the eldest son of John Adams, the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801, and Abigail Adams, the first lady of the United States. Initially a Federalist like his father, he was elected president as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, but moved to the Whig Party in the mid-1830s.