John adamss biography
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John Adams
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Who Was John Adams?
John Adams was a direct descendant of Puritan colonists from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He studied at Harvard University, where he received his undergraduate degree and master's degree, and in , he was admitted to the bar.
In , he served on the First Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
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Adams became the first vice president of the United States and the second president.
Early Life
John Adams was born on October 30, , in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. His father, John Adams Sr., was a farmer, a Congregationalist deacon and a town councilman, and was a direct descendant of Henry Adams, a Puritan who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline, a prominent family in colonial Massachusetts.
At age 16, Adams earned a scholarship to attend Harvard University. After graduating in , at age 20, Adams studied