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Vor 4 Tagen · John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, the eldest son of John Adams Sr., a farmer and cobbler, and Susanna Boylston Adams. Young John enjoyed a privileged upbringing. His father earned enough to send him to a prep school and then Harvard College, where he excelled, graduating in 1755 at age 20.
Vor einem Tag · Though concerned that his appointment would be criticized as nepotistic, Adams accepted the position and traveled to the Prussian capital of Berlin with his wife and his younger brother, Thomas Boylston Adams.
Vor einem Tag · John Adams took ownership of the two houses in 1774, although he and Abigail often occupied homes in Boston until the Revolution. Both properties were sold to John Quincy Adams in 1803. He used it as a summer home until 1806, while his brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, occupied the older house from 1810 to about 1820. The houses were rented out ...
Vor 3 Tagen · John Adams, the first vice president (1789–97) and second president (1797–1801) of the United States. He was an early advocate of American independence and a major figure in the Continental Congress. He was regarded as one of the most significant statesmen of the revolutionary era.
- John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), A...
- John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
Vor 3 Tagen · John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States (1825–29) and son of President John Adams. In his prepresidential years he was one of America’s greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine), and later as a congressman he fought the expansion of slavery.
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Vor 2 Tagen · In 1973, historian Richard B. Morris identified seven figures as key founders, based on what he called the "triple tests" of leadership, longevity, and statesmanship: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Vor 2 Tagen · The show features celebrity voice talents, such as CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite (as Benjamin Franklin), Sylvester Stallone (as Paul Revere), Ben Stiller (as Thomas Jefferson), Billy Crystal (as John Adams), Annette Bening (as Abigail Adams), Dustin Hoffman (as Benedict Arnold), Michael Douglas (as Patrick Henry), Arnold ...
