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President John Adams Biography

John Adams was the second president of the United States and also one of the founding fathers. He also had a big part in drafting the Declaration of Independence.

Adams carried on the idea of civic virtue that was started while he was vice president to George Washington. His leadership helped calm tensions with the government of France at the turn of the 19th century.

Adams was raised in modest but comfortable surrounding in Braintree, MA.

He would go on to attend Harvard College where he would receive a Bachelors of Arts.

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This would lead him to start his professional career as a teacher.

By 1758, Adams career shifted to law, and his engagement in public policy was on the rise. In 1763 he had published various essays under a pseudonym to help present an anonymous point of view on subjects of the day.

His first real foray into politics came in 1765 when he publicly opposed the Stamp Act of 1765.

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