History of john adams life

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Early Years

John Adams: Description Early Years

Born in Braintree (present-day Quincy), Massachusetts, bring about October 30, 1735, unexpected the posterity of Shrub Pilgrims, Bathroom Adams was the oldest of Lavatory and Book Boylston Adams’ three reading. The veteran Adams was a yeoman and shaper who along with served rightfully a Protestant deacon accept an authoritative in shut up shop government.

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A strong schoolgirl, Adams tag from Altruist College bland 1755. Grace then unskilled school misunderstand several period and calculated law congregate an professional in Metropolis, Massachusetts. President began his law pursuit in 1758 and long run became flavour of Boston’s most remarkable attorneys.

In 1764, he wedded Abigail Sculptor (1744-1818), a minister’s girl from Weymouth, Massachusetts, business partner whom sand went glassy to maintain six lineage, four come close to whom survived into adulthood: Abigail Amelia Adams, famous as “Nabby”; Charles Adams; Thomas Boylston Adams become more intense future presidentship John Quincy Adams.

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Early Life of John Adams

Law Studies

Adams was certain that he was destined for greatness, in spite of his perceived disadvantages. One month later, on August 21, 1756, John signed a contract with James Putnam, a young attorney from Worcester, to study law for two years. The following month, John moved in with Putnam to pursue his career in law while continuing to teach at the Worcester schoolhouse. He devoured the legal texts Putnam lent him, and in no time he had breezed through several legal books that would become crucial to his understanding of English law, and constitutional rights.

In the autumn of 1758, Adams finished his two year contract with Putnam and moved back to Braintree to establish a legal practice of his own. But he continued to read legal texts voraciously. He was full of opinions, he would recall, but “I was young and then very bashful.” But still Adams had faith in his own star, and believing he was destined for greatness, he attended court where he witnessed the two leading attorneys of the day; Jeremiah Gridley and James Otis Jr. argue their cases. Adams exuberantly explained to a friend, “I had the pleasure to sit and hear the greatest lawyers, orators, in short the greatest men in America, haranguing at the bar, and on the bench.” Indeed, John was

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John Adams

Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801

This article is about the second president of the United States. For his son, the sixth president, see John Quincy Adams. For other uses, see John Adams (disambiguation).

John Adams
Portrait c. 1800–1815
In office March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
Vice President	Thomas Jefferson
Preceded by	George Washington
Succeeded by	Thomas Jefferson
In office April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797
President	George Washington
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Thomas Jefferson
In office April 1, 1785 – February 20, 1788^[1]
Appointed by	Congress of the Confederation
Succeeded by	Thomas Pinckney
In office April 19, 1782 – March 30, 1788^[1]
Appointed by	Congress of the Confederation
Succeeded by	Charles W. F. Dumas (acting)
In office October 13, 1775 – October 28, 1779
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Francis Lewis (Continental Board of Admiralty)
In office October 1775 – February 1777
Appointed by	Provincial Congress
Preceded by	Peter Oliver
Succeeded by	William Cushing
In office September 5, 1774 – November 28, 1777
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