Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: John Quincy Adams, George M. Dallas, Andrew Dickson White, James Buchanan, John Randolph of Roanoke, Robert Schwarz Strauss, Thomas R. Pickering, John Beyrle, Clifton R. Breckinridge, List of Ambassadors of the United States to Russia, William Harrison Standley, Alphonso Taft, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Simon Cameron, George Henry Boker, George von Lengerke Meyer, Andrew Gregg Curtin, Alexander Vershbow, James Lawrence Orr, David R. Francis, William Wilkins, William Joseph Burns, George W. Campbell, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Robert Sanderson McCormick, Charlemagne Tower, Jr., James Franklin Collins, Thomas H. Seymour, William Pinkney, John F. Tefft, Francis Dana, John Appleton, Curtis Guild, Jr., William H. Hunt, John W. Foster, Charles Emory Smith, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Arthur P. Bagby, Laurence Steinhardt, Marshall Jewell, John Randolph Clay, Lambert Tree, Ethan A. Hitchcock, George V. N. Lothrop, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, Neill S. Brown, Henry Middleton, Edwin W. Stoughton, John W. Riddle, Charles Stewart Todd, George T. Marye, Jr.. Excerpt: John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829). He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and as Secretary of State, he helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine. Historians agree he was one of the great diplomats in American history. As president, he proposed a program of modernization and educational advancement, but Congress, controlled by his enemies, stymied him. Adams lost his 1828 bid for re-election to And...