John Adams
John Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. He was the son of John and Susanna Boylston Adams. He was raised in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. As a young man, John went to School in Braintree and entered Harvard college at age 16. Latin, history , and law were his majors. As a disciplined scholar, he quickly learned a large amount of information about colonial law and government. Eventually he became a lawyer in Boston.In 1764, Adams married Abigail Smith, daughter of a Weymouth, a Massachusetts minister. The couple had five children. One of them, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth president of the United States. The marriage lasted 54 years, until the death of Abigail Adams in 1818. Between 1774 and 1784 the Adamses saw very little of each other, because John Adams was very active in serving the young nation .In 1784 Abigail joined her husband in Europe and stayed with him so they were able to build a stronger relationship. In June 1776 Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, moved that Congress declare "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." The resolution was referred to a committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger
2.) Ford, Worthington "Journals of the Continental Congress" 5:425-426, 4.) Sharp, Roger (1993) "American Politics in the Early Republic". Yale University Press. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington. Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his strength, sense, and pride. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." There is something important here that I will explain because many people overlook it. The vote on Independence was passed on July 2nd, 1776. Right after this, the there was a debate on the Declaration, which was adopted on July 4th, 1776. Adams knew the vote on independence was more important. He wrote about this in letters to his delegates. Since the Declaration being Dated July 4th 1776, credit was given to Jefferson as author of the Declaration, meaning less credit was given to Adams who was the true directional man in Congress for the independent movement.
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