John Quincy Adams in numerous regards paralleled the profession and additionally the demeanor and perspectives of his distinguished dad. Conceived in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the highest point of Penn's Hill over the family cultivate. As secretary to his dad in Europe, he turned into a proficient language specialist and steady diarist.

In the wake of moving on from Harvard College, he turned into a legal advisor. After six years President Madison named him Minister to Russia.

In the political custom of the mid-nineteenth century, Adams as Secretary of State was viewed as the political beneficiary to the Presidency. However, the old methods for picking a President were giving route in 1824 preceding the commotion for a mainstream decision.

Inside the unparalleled party– the Republican– sectionalism and factionalism were creating, and each area set up its own particular possibility for the Presidency. Since no applicant had a greater part of discretionary votes, the decision was settled on the best three by the House of Representatives. Mud, who supported a program like that of Adams, tossed his pivotal help in the House to the New Englander.

After getting to be President, Adams delegated Clay as Secretary of State. Jackson and his furious supporters charged that a "degenerate deal" had occurred and promptly started their crusade to wrest the Presidency from Adams in 1828.