Quincy Traditional Cache
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This cache is dedicated to John Quincy Adams
Sixth President
1825-1829
Born: July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts
Died: February 23, 1848, after collapsing on the floor of the House two days earlier.
Married to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, the first president to be born to a president. He graduated from Harvard College and became a lawyer. In 1793, at the age of 26, he was selected Minister to the Netherlands, then advanced to the Berlin diplomatic office. At the age of 35 he was voted into the U.S. Senate, and six years later, in 1809 until 1814, President Madison selected him as Minister to Russia, where he befriended Czar Alexander I. Some are of the opinion that Adams was one of the great Secretaries of State.
Adams was the first President to give an interview to a woman. Adams had repeatedly refused requests for an interview with Anne Royalll, the first female professional journalist in the U.S., so she took a different approach to accomplish her goal. She learned that Adams liked to skinny-dip in the Potomac River almost every morning around 5 AM, so she went to the river, gathered his clothes, and sat on them until he answered all of her questions.
On another occasion, while Adams was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a tramp stole the clothes he had left on the riverbank. Adams remained in the river for nearly an hour, until he saw a young boy walking along the river bank. He called to the boy to "Go up to the White House and ask Mrs. Adams to send down a new set of clothes for the President." Twenty minutes later, the boy returned with a servant from the White House, bearing a new set of clothes for Adams.
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