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=.= = The Man Behind The President: John Adams =

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...................John Adams

** John Adams was not only a president, but he was an ordinary man with an ordinary life before he became president. He was born on [|October 30th 1735] into a family that had been in America for generations. His father, John Adams, was educated at Harvard though he later became a farmer. His mother was Susanna Boylston, who not much is known of, and he had two brothers named Peter and Elihu. John Adams was taught to read by his father and then went on to be educated by Mrs. Belcher. After being Mrs. Belcher’s student, he went on to Joseph Cleverly's Latin school. Afterward, he went on to being Joseph Marsh’s student before he finally went to Harvard College in 1751. [|He then taught school] for a bit in Worcester. Later he went on to studying law in the office of [|Rufus Putnam.] ** ..........Abagail Smith (wife)..............Abagail Adams (daughter)..........John Quincy Adams (son) ......Charles Adams (son)..Thomas Boyleston Adams (son) ** As for his social and home life, when he **** grew up he was married to Abigail Smith and had six children, only four made it to adulthood. These children were named Abigail, John, Charles, and Thomas. The ones who didn't grow up or wasn't born alive were Susanna Adams, who died at the age of two, and Elizabeth Adams who was stillborn. John Adams[| was a religious man as well.][|His religion was called][|Unitarian.] He also had a horse named Cleopatra. On the other hand, before he was president he was a lawyer and defended the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in 1770. He got 6 out of the 8 soldiers off of their charges. He also served in the Massachusetts legislature from 1770 to 1774. Later he was elected into the continental congress. John Adams was a great writer so he often wrote of things that happened to him and around him. He also wrote in the Declaration of Independence. Not to mention he helped with the peace offerings to england. He was ambitious to separate the colonies from england from the very start. ** Unitarianism ** He liked to argue the unpopular view on issues just to unnerve others. He helped write the Massachusetts constitution in 1780 which eventually abolished slavery in Massachusetts. As for his views on government he said “There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the[|British constitution] is so; because the very definition of a republic is an empire of laws, and not of men.” He was very single minded when it came to forms of government. ** ** All in all, John Adams was a bold, daring, highly intelligent lawyer who was also a family man with 5 children and a loving wife. However, he died on [|July 4th 1826]. **

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