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John Adams Biography
John Adams served as the first vice-president and second president of the United States. Adams was a lawyer, delegate, and patriot. Adams played a key role in founding the new Republic of the United States of America.
John Adams
Born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, John Adams became one of the most influential figures in American History. Prior to his political career, Adams became an accomplished lawyer. As a lawyer, Adams would spend many of his nights away from home which began the long and loving written correspondences with his soon-to-be wife Abigail. As a lawyer, Adams lost much of his early reputation bygd defending the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. Although Adams would be known for his American Patriotism throughout the American Revolution, his decision to defend these soldiers reflected a deeper sense of loyalty to ensuring fair justice and lag for all.
Throughout much of the American Revolution, Adams was sent to Europ
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Edgar J. Adams
American politician (1866–1944)
Edgar Jacob Adams (August 6, 1866 – May 23, 1944) was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1897 through 1900. He served as Speaker of the House during the 40th Legislature.[1]
Adams was born in August 1866 to George and Margaret Adams. At age 6, the family moved to a farm in Monroe County, where he attended school, and again, six years later, the family moved to a farm in Gratiot County. Adams' father was a distant relative of John and John Quincy Adams. He taught one term of school at age 17, later becoming employed by Hopkins & Lyon in Mt. Pleasant. Adams taught himself in the lag and, after moving to Grand Rapids in 1892, was admitted to the bar in 1894.[2]
Adams' re-election in 1898 was not without controversy as he was opposed by Governor Hazen S. Pingree and members of his own political party. His election as Speaker in 1899 was similarly fraught, and described as "one o
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Adams, descended from a long line of yeomen farmers and the eldest of three sons, was born in 1735 at Braintree (later Quincy), Mass., and was himself the progenitor of a distinguished family. He graduated from Harvard College in 1755, and for a short time taught school at Worcester, Mass. At that time, he considered entering the ministry, but decided instead to follow the law and began studying with a local lawyer.
Adams was admitted to the bar at Boston in 1758, the same year he took an M.A. degree at Harvard, and began to practice in his hometown. Six years later, he married Abigail Smith, who was to give birth to three sons, one of whom was John Quincy, and two daughters. She was thus the only woman in U.S. history to be the wife of one President and the mother of another, and she was also the first mistress of the White House.
Like many others, Adams was propelled into the Revolutionary camp by the Stamp Act. In 1765 he wrote a prote