Adams, John Quincy:

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[FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL - EXTRA.] PANAMA MISSION. WASHINGTON, MARCH 15, 1826 [caption title]. A rare broadside, printed on silk, reproducing the text of President John Quincy Adams' March 15, 1826, message to the House of Representatives, in which he calls for sending an American delegation to the upcoming Panama Congress. Organized by Simón Bolívar in an effort to bring together the various governments of the Americas to discuss issues of regional security and cooperation, the Panama Congress was held from June 22 to July 15, 1826. John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1824, had been involved in the shaping of American foreign policy his entire career. In 1778, at just barely twenty years of age, he accompanied his father on John Adams' diplomatic mission to Europe during the Revolution, and he also served for a time as secretary to the American minister to Russia. In 1794 George Washington appointed him U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, and later that decade he served in the same posts in Portugal and Prussia. James Madison appointed Adams as the first American ambassador to Russia in 1809, and a few years later he was instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. Adams' greatest feats in diplomacy, however, came as Secretary of State to President James Monroe, during which he negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain, which brought Florida and land along the Gulf Coast to the United States, and which also further defined the boundar

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