books.google.com - He was born in 1767, a subject of the British Empire, and died in 1848, a citizen of the United States and a member of Congress in company with Abraham Lincoln. In his dramatic career he had known George Washington and Benjamiin Franklin, La Fayette of France, Alexander I of Russia, and Castlereagh of...http://books.google.com/books/about/John_Quincy_Adams.html?id=V3HM9-uM8QcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJohn Quincy Adams