Title: John J. Adams
Content:  John Joseph Adams (September 16, 1848 – February 16, 1919) was an American politician and a United States Congressman from New York State.
Title: John J. Adams
Content:  Adams was born in Douglas Town in the New Brunswick colony in British Canada (now part of Miramichi) on September 16, 1848. He emigrated to the United States in 1864, settling in New York City, and worked in a dry-goods firm in New York City until he began studies at Columbia Law School. Adams graduated with a degree in law in 1876 and was admitted to the bar the same year. In addition, he was involved in several businesses, including the Adams Mining Company of Leadville, Colorado, which included his brothers Michael Adams (1845-1899), a member of the Canadian Parliament, and Samuel Adams (1846-1928), a member of the Colorado State Senate. Elected to the United States House of Representatives from two different districts, Adams represented the 8th District in the forty-eighth United States Congress from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He then represented the 7th district in the Fiftieth United States Congress from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887. Both districts at the time were in Queens. He did not seek renomination in 1886 and returned to the practice of law.
Title: John Adams Birthplace
Content:  The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in 1735. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now administered by the National Park Service as part of the Adams National Historical Park, and is open for guided tours.
Title: John Adams (Wisconsin politician, born 1819)
Content:  John Adams (June 1, 1819 – October 18, 1908) was an American businessman, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served two years in the Wisconsin State Senate and three years in the State Assembly, representing eastern Dane County. He was the father of Alva Adams, who served three terms as Governor of Colorado.
Title: John Adams (New York politician)
Content:  John studied law, and taught school in Durham. John was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. John was Surrogate of Greene County, New York from 1810 to 1811. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1812–13. In April 1814, John ran as a Federalist for the 14th United States Congress, and was declared elected due to a mistake made by the deputy county clerk who had transcribed the returns. Credentials were issued by the Secretary of State of New York, but John Adams did not take or claim the seat. His Democratic-Republican opponent Erastus Root contested Adams's election and was seated on December 26, 1815. John Adams was elected as a Jacksonian to the 23rd Congress, and served from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1835. Afterwards he resumed his law practice in Catskill. John also became a director of the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad in 1835. John was buried at the Thompson Street Cemetery in Catskill. State Senator Platt Adams (1792–1887) was his brother.
Title: John J. Adam
Content:  John J. Adam (October 30, 1807 – July 8, 1888) was a Scottish-American teacher, businessman, and politician. He served in a number of elected and appointed positions in the first years of Michigan's statehood, including state treasurer, auditor general, and regent of the University of Michigan, as well as multiple terms in the state house of representatives and state senate.
Title: John Q. Adams (Wisconsin politician)
Content:  Adams was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Adams and Polly ( Howes). He was educated in the common schools and became a teacher. He moved to Fountain Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1844, and served on the Columbia County and Fountain Prairie town boards as the Columbia County treasurer and the Fountain Prairie town superintendent of schools. Adams also served on the Columbus school board and other offices. He served as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1853 and 1863, and was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1854 to 1856. He represented Columbia County, Wisconsin. Adams died on March 17, 1895 in Columbus.
Title: John Adams (journalist)
Content:  Adams was born in the mountain town of Rumford, Maine in 1819. His father died when Adams was still young. He received instruction from a relative who had attended Bowdoin College, which inspired him to pursue higher education. He attended schools in Turner, Maine, Bethel, Maine, and Bridgton Academy. He taught in Bethel for a year prior to leaving education to join a volunteer force organized to fight the Aroostook War with Britain over Maine's northeastern boundary with the British Empire. Adams and his fellow enlistees never saw action and did not travel north of the state capital of Augusta. His Bowdoin College-educated relative was hired as a teacher in Maryland and invited Adams to join him in teaching there, which he did. He worked for two years in Maryland before returning to Maine following the death of his brother. Desiring to speak the French language fluently, he traveled northward and studied at St. Hyacinthe College in Quebec. While there, he boarded with the well-known Papineau family.
Title: John Adams Sr. (Nebraska politician)
Content:  Adams was born February 2, 1876, in Atlanta, Georgia, to the John and Belle Adams. On September 16, 1902 he married Hattie Edith Bowman daughter of John and Melissa Bowman in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended high school in Atlanta public schools and attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Yale University, Gammon Theological Seminary, and received a Masters of Arts from AME affiliated Campbell College in Jackson, Mississippi. He had three sons, John, Harold S. and Ralph W. John Jr. and Ralph joined John Sr. as partners in a law practice in the 1930s. Adams died of a heart attack on the morning of Saturday, April 22, 1962. The Governor and many members of the state legislature attended his funeral.
Title: John Adams (Confederate Army officer)
Content:  Adams was born to Irish immigrant parents in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 1, 1825; by some other sources he was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, on February 8, 1825. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846, ranking 25th in his class. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Dragoons, serving under Capt. Philip Kearny. Adams was brevetted first lieutenant for gallantry during the Mexican–American War at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales. After the war, Adams served on the western frontier, primarily in California, reaching the rank of captain. As a lieutenant colonel in the state militia, he was aide-de-camp to the Governor of Minnesota in 1853.

Question: what state did john adams live in?
Answer: Massachusetts.