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1767: Born in Massachusetts
1775: American Revolutionary War begins
1787: Earns degree from Harvard College
1790-94: Works as attorney in private practice in Boston
1794-97: Serves as minister to Holland
1796: Father John Adams elected president
1797-1801: Serves as minister to the Court of Prussia
1803-8: Serves in the U.S. Senate as a Federalist from Massachusetts; recalled by special election in 1808
1809-15: Serves as minister to Russia during presidency of James Madison
1812: War of 1812 begins
1815-17: Serves as minister to Great Britain; negotiator of Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812
1817-24: Serves as U.S. secretary of state; writes the Monroe Doctrine
1825-29: Serves as sixth U.S. president
1831-49: Serves in the U.S. House of Representatives from Plymouth District, Massachusetts
1841: Serves as co-counsel on the Amistad case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, delivering the closing argument
1844: Successful in rescinding...
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