Who is John Quincy Adams?
John Quincy Adams was born on 11 July 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts, to John Adams, second president of the United States of America, and Abigail Adams. He would grow up to become the sixth president of the United States, the first American president to be the son of a president. Accompanying his father to Europe at the age of ten, John Quincy Adams was educated in France and the Netherlands. For several years he remained abroad, becoming proficient in French as well as several other languages. As a young teenager, his language talents garnered him a position with the U.S. envoy to Russia, Francis Dana, as an interpreter. He accompanied Dana to St. Petersburg, Russia, in that capacity, and remained there for almost two years. Eventually, John Quincy Adams returned to the United States to graduate from Harvard College in 1787, and afterward established a law practice.
