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  <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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Adams began his education in a common school in Braintree. He secured a scholarship to Harvard and graduated at the age of 20.

He apprenticed to a Mr. Putnam of Worcester, who provided access to the library of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and was admitted to the Bar in 1761. He participated in an outcry against Writs of Assistance. Adams became a prominent public figure in his activities against the Stamp Act, in response to which he wrote and published a popular article, Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law. He married in 1766 and moved to Boston, assuming a prominent position in the patriot movement. He was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly in 1770, and was chosen one of five to represent the colony at the First Continental Congress in 1774.

Again in the Continental Congress, in 1775, he nominated Washington to be commander-in-chief on the colonial armies. Adams was a very active member of congress, he was engaged by as many as ninety committees and chaired twenty-five during the second Continental Congress. In May of 1776, he offered a resolution that amounted to a declaration of independence from Gr. Britain. He was shortly thereafter a fierce advocate for the Declaration drafted by Thos. Jefferson. Congress then appointed him ambassador to France, to replace Silas Dean at the French court. He returned from those duties in 1779 and participated in the framing of a state constitution for Massachusetts, where he was further appointed Minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace, and form a commercial treaty, with Gr. Britain. In 1781 he participated with Franklin, Jay and Laurens, in development of the Treaty of Peace with Gr. Britain and was a signer of that treaty, which ended the Revolutionary War, in 1783. He was elected Vice President of the United States under Geo. Washington in 1789, and was elected President in 1796. Adams was a Federalist and this made him an arch-rival of Thos. Jefferson and his Republican party. The discord between Adams and Jefferson surfaced many times during Adams' (and, later, Jefferson's) presidency. This was not a mere party contest. The struggle was over the nature of the office and on the limits of Federal power over the state governments and individual citizens. Adams retired from office at the end of his term in 1801. He was elected President of a convention to reform the constitution of Massachusetts in 1824, but declined the honor due to failing health.

He died on July 4, 1826 (incidentally, within hours of the death of Thos. Jefferson.) His final toast to the Fourth of July was &quot;Independence Forever!&quot; Late in the afternoon of the Fourth of July, just hours after Jefferson died at Monticello, Adams, unaware of that fact, is reported to have said, &quot;Thomas Jefferson survives.&quot;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Braintree, Massachusetts</hometown>  <born_at>10/30/1735</born_at>  <died_at>07/04/1826</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams]]></title>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Portable John Adams]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Adams on Adams]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography (through 1780) (Adams Papers)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections (American Heritage Series (New York, N.Y.).No. 8)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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        <book id="436590">
  <title><![CDATA[Correspondence Between John Adams &amp; Mercy Warren]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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  <published>1972</published>  
  
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        <book id="6775892">
  <title><![CDATA[The Legal Papers of John Adams]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[L. Kinvin Wroth]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hiller B. Zobel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Executive Collection: The Speeches of John Adams - active table of contents]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Adams]]></name>
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