John Quincy Adams really wanted to be a poet, what was then called a man of letters. ... He was the secretary of state in the Monroe administration (1817-25).

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

Secretary of State Under President ... On February 21, 1848, John Quincy Adams suffered a fatal stroke in the House chamber. He died two days later. Support Provided by: Learn More. Now Streaming.

From an 1819 letter written by John Quincy Adams, at the time U.S. secretary of state, to Moritz von Furstenwarther, a German citizen who was considering moving to the U.S. and asked Adams for a job: ...

OPINION: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: AMERICAN VISIONARY By Fred Kaplan Harper, $29.99, 672 pages. When Secretary of State John F. Kerry declared the Monroe Doctrine, a pillar of U.S. foreign policy in name ...

John Quincy Adams helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. ... it was as Monroe’s secretary of state that Adams left his mark on American foreign policy.

Editor’s Note: Happy Independence Day! On July 4, 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams gave the following Independence Day speech. And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned ...

John Quincy’s principal biographer, Samuel Flagg Bemis of Yale University, deemed him the greatest secretary of state in American history. His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a ...

Fred Kaplan talked about his biography, [John Quincy Adams: American Visionary], in which he argues that even though John Quincy Adams was not remembered for being a great president, he was one of ...

Adams, who was a mediocre president from 1825 to 1829 after serving as America’s greatest secretary of state under President James Monroe, ... John Quincy Adams. Related. Op-Ed . February 01, 2020 ...

The subtitle of Fred Kaplan’s latest book, “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary” is working overtime to celebrate the diplomat, senator, secretary of State, president and member of the ...