John Q. Adams Administration - Career
Career
John Quincy Adams's diplomatic career began when he was still legally a minor, serving as secretary to the U.S. minister to Russia in 1781 and then secretary to his father in Paris, France, during negotiations in 1783 to end the American Revolution (1775–83). Although he practiced law for a short time in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning in 1790, Adams's greater interest in politics led him to political journalism and then to appointment by President George Washington as minister to the Netherlands in 1794. After his father's election to the presidency in 1796, Adams served as minister to Prussia, in present-day Germany, where he negotiated an important treaty of commerce.
In 1801 Adams renewed his law practice in Boston. Politics soon won out over his interest in the law, however, and he stood successfully for election in 1802 to the Massachusetts State Senate. In 1803 the state legislature elected him to the U.S....[The entire page is 1045 words long]
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