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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

1767 CE1848 CE · Washington, D.C.

John Quincy Adams was the 6th President, serving from 1825 to 1829, and the son of John Adams. As Secretary of State he had negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty acquiring Florida and helped craft the Monroe Doctrine. After leaving the presidency he served nearly two decades in the House of Representatives as a prominent opponent of slavery.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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