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If you answered John Quincy Adams (the earliest serving President to have a photograph taken of him), then you were right! Born on July 11, 1767, to John Adams and Abigail Adams, by the age of eight he had not only trained with the famous Massachusetts Minutemen and watched the British attack Boston, but by the age of 11, he was serving as a secretary to his father, who was the U.S. diplomat to France; at the age of 14, he was sent to be secretary and translator for Francis Dana, American diplomat in the Court of Queen Catherine the Great in Russia; and at the age of 15, he was an official secretary for the American delegation negotiating the final peace treaty to end the American War for Independence....
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 06:29:43 +0000

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