Badass Birthday
On this date in 1767, in Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams was born.
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He was the 6th President of the United States from 1825-1829. He was the son of the 2nd President John Adams. He was the first president to be photographed (though it was after he left offce, James Polk was the first to be photographed IN office). He was well known to take morning swims in the Potomac River buck ass naked. He was born a citizen of Great Britain as the US Revolution was still a decade away.
Before becoming Presdient he was the 8th Secretart of State, Minister to Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, and a senator from Massachusetts. Two years after leaving the presidency, he was elected to the US House of Representatves from Massachusetts (the only ex-President to serve in the House) until his death over a decade and a half later.
He had a part in negotiating the Treaty Of Ghent which ending the War Of 1812, and the Adams-Onis treaty in 1819 which transferred Spanish Florida to the US. He also helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, which still is used to keep European interference out of the Americas.
He wasn't a terribly successful president due to Congress being in the other parties hands and refusing to approve his proposals. And while later serving the House, he was passionate in his advocacy for abolition of slavery, against the expansion of slavery, and for Native American rights. Unfortunately, the wasn't terribly successful in those things either, due to the makeup of Congress. He DID successful defend enslaved mutineers on the Armistad before the Supreme Court when he was 73 years old. Seven years later he died while IN the US House chamber, at his desk, in 1848.
While he's generally ranked as an average/slightly below averge President, he IS considered on the most succesful diplomats and negotiators this country's ever had.
And surely had can be considered a real Badass as well!
POLT
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