Samuel Flagg Bemis
Contributor
LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States
Sterling Professor of Diplomatic History and Inter-American Relations, Yale University, 1945–61. Author of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy and others.
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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States (1825–29) and eldest son of President John Adams. In his prepresidential years he was one of America’s greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine), and in his postpresidential years…
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