John+Adams

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was born to John Henry Adams and Susanna Boylston Adams and had two brothers. His great-great-grandfather came from England to settle in the colonies. Adams’ cousin, Samuel Adams, was also a well-known Patriot activist.
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John Adams received a thorough education at Harvard University in Massachusetts. He showed enormous potential as a lawyer became a lawyer in 1758 and was admitted to the Massachusetts’s bar, or courthouse. Following the Boston Massacre, John Adams was the one who defended the British soldiers from the prosecution. Adams helped the soldier escape murder charges and they were only charged with manslaughter. John Adams may have been on the opposite side of the colonists in this trial but his ability to help even the enemy made the colonies respect him.

When the time came for the First Continental Congress, Adams was chosen to represent Massachusetts. After the need for independence was established, Adams was one of the five people chosen to help draft the Declaration of Independence along with Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. He also was one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and returned in the Second Continental Congress to lead the movement for independence. Without his efforts, the cause for independence might have not been enough.

John Adam’s contribution to the United States was enormous as he became George Washington’s vice president and later president himself. His son also became the sixth president and helped guide America. When he died on July 4, 1826 on the same day that Thomas Jefferson died and 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, America mourned the lost of a Revolutionary hero that helped changed America.

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