query: what state was john adams elected from?

title: John Adams

text: be confined" to certain enumerated powers. "Thoughts on Government" was referenced in every state-constitution writing hall. Adams used the letter to attack opponents of independence. He claimed that John Dickinson's fear of republicanism was responsible for his refusal to support independence, and wrote that opposition from Southern planters was rooted in fear that their aristocratic slaveholding status would be endangered by it. After returning from his first mission to France in 1779, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention with the purpose of establishing a new constitution for Massachusetts. He served on a committee of three, also including Samuel

title: John Quincy Adams

text: John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He served as the eighth United States Secretary of State immediately before becoming president. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams also served as an ambassador, and represented Massachusetts as a United States Senator and as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as president from 1797 to 1801. Initially a Federalist like his father,

title: Diplomacy of John Adams

text: in Spain. Adams received no instructions on where to go or what to do next. Disgusted by the apparent slight, he departed France on March 8, 1779. In the fall of 1779, Adams was appointed sole minister charged with negotiating peace and a postwar commercial treaty with Britain. Following the conclusion of the Massachusetts constitutional convention, at which he drafted the state constitution, he departed for Europe in November aboard the French frigate "Sensible" – accompanied by John Quincy and 9-year-old son Charles. In France, constant disagreement between Lee and Franklin eventually resulted in Adams assuming the role of tie-breaker

title: John Q. Adams (Wisconsin)

text: John Q. Adams (Wisconsin) John Q. Adams (October 5, 1816 – March 17, 1895) was an American teacher and politician. He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly. Adams was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Adams and Polly (Howes) Adams. 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

title: John Adams

text: of manslaughter. Adams was paid a small sum by his clients. According to biographer John E. Ferling, during jury selection Adams "expertly exercised his right to challenge individual jurors and contrived what amounted to a packed jury. Not only were several jurors closely tied through business arrangements to the British army, but five ultimately became Loyalist exiles." While Adams' defense was helped by a weak prosecution, he also "performed brilliantly." Ferling surmises that Adams may have been encouraged to take the case in exchange for political office; one of Boston's seats opened three months later in the Massachusetts legislature, and

title: John Adams Sr.

text: John Adams Sr. John Adams Sr. (February 8, 1691 – May 25, 1761) was a British colonial farmer and minister. He was the father of the second U.S. President, John Adams Jr., and grandfather of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. He was the son of Joseph Adams Jr. (1654–1737), the grandson of Joseph Adams Sr. (1626-1694), and the great-grandson of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1638. He was also descended from John and Priscilla Alden. Adams worked as a farmer and cobbler (also called a cord-wainer or shoemaker) for

title: John Adams II

text: John Adams II John Adams II (July 4, 1803 – October 23, 1834) was an American government functionary and businessman. The second son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, he is usually called John Adams II to distinguish him from President John Adams, his famous grandfather. John Adams II was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1803. He studied at Harvard University, but was expelled during his senior year for participating in the 1823 student rebellion to protest the curriculum and living conditions at the university. He then studied law under his father, and when John Quincy

title: John Adams (miniseries)

text: 1789, he returns to Massachusetts for the first presidential election and he and Abigail are reunited with their children, now grown. George Washington is elected the first President of the United States and John Adams as the first Vice President. Initially, Adams is disappointed and wishes to reject the post of Vice President because he feels there is a disproportionate number of electoral votes in favor of George Washington (Adams' number of votes pales in comparison to those garnered by Washington). In addition, John feels the position of Vice President is not a proper reflection of all the years of

title: John Adams Sr.

text: of 70, and he was buried in Braintree. His widow Susanna later married John Hall. His son purchased his house and 53 acres after his death. John Adams Sr. John Adams Sr. (February 8, 1691 – May 25, 1761) was a British colonial farmer and minister. He was the father of the second U.S. President, John Adams Jr., and grandfather of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. He was the son of Joseph Adams Jr. (1654–1737), the grandson of Joseph Adams Sr. (1626-1694), and the great-grandson of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony

title: John "Grizzly" Adams

text: England that included many important men and women who contributed to the founding and early history of the United States. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams (1583–1646), emigrated with his family from England to Boston, Massachusetts in 1632, and thus established the famous Adams family in America. Henry's descendants include the patriot, Samuel Adams and two presidents, John Adams and President Adams' son, John Quincy Adams. Grizzly was born in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, and was surrounded by relatives and cousins. During Grizzly Adams' childhood, President John Adams lived within a short buggy ride of him in Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams

title: John Quincy Adams II

text: graduated from Harvard University in 1853, studied law, attained admission to the bar, and practiced in Boston. He later established an experimental model farm near Quincy, Massachusetts. During the Civil War he served on the staff of Governor John Albion Andrew with the rank of Colonel. Adams served in several local offices in Quincy, including town meeting moderator, school board chairman and judge of the local court. He was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature as a Republican, but soon switched to the Democratic Party because of his disaffection with Republican Reconstruction policies. In addition to serving in the Massachusetts

title: John Adams

text: from the Boston Massacre. Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and became a principal leader of the Revolution. He assisted in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was its foremost advocate in Congress. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate the peace treaty with Great Britain and secured vital governmental loans. Adams was the primary author of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780, which influenced the United States' own constitution, as did his earlier "Thoughts on Government". Adams was elected to two terms as Vice President under George Washington. He was then elected President in

title: John Wolcott Adams

text: John Wolcott Adams John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925) was an American illustrator. Adams was born on 7 November 1874 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Frances Pendleton Sheldon (1903–1920). John Wolcott Adams was the son of John Francis and Ellen Wilson Adams and descendant of a New England family. This family had produced two United States presidents. Adams was interested in the theatre, and he was able to design at least one stage setting that was designed for a 1923 Walter Hampden production. He died in New York on June 24, 1925 of appendicitis. John Wolcott Adams studied at the School of

title: John Wolcott Adams

text: the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 1898 he went to New York where he attended the Art Students League of New York classes. John Wolcott Adams was a member of the following groups: John Wolcott Adams contributed to the following periodicals: In 1916, Adams, with Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, produced a colorful redraft of the 1660 Castello Plan map of New York City. John Wolcott Adams John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925) was an American illustrator. Adams was born on 7 November 1874 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Frances Pendleton Sheldon (1903–1920). John Wolcott Adams was the son of

title: John Adams (poet)

text: the whole book of Revelation in heroic verse, together with original pieces. The versification is remarkably harmonious for the period and the country. The following is an extract from his poem on Cotton Mather: (Massa.-mag. for Apr. 1789";Backus' hist. abr. 158 ; "Pref. to his poems";Specimens of Amer. poetry, I. 67. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts in January, 1740, at the age of 36, deeply lamented by his acquaintance. John Adams (poet) John Adams (1704 – January 1740) was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard

title: John Adams

text: Reagan surpassed that age in 2001. Adams' crypt lies at United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, with his wife Abigail and son John Quincy Adams. At the time of his death, John Quincy Adams was serving as U.S. President. When Adams died, his last words included an acknowledgement of his longtime friend and rival: "Thomas Jefferson survives." Adams was unaware that Jefferson had died several hours before. During the First Continental Congress, Adams was sometimes solicited for his views on government. While recognizing its importance, Adams had privately criticized Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense", which attacked all forms

title: Henry Adams (farmer)

text: Henry Adams (farmer) Henry Adams (1583–1646) was a British colonial farmer. He was a patrilineal ancestor of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Henry Adams was born in Barton St. David (1583-1646) to John Adams (1555–1604) and Agnes Stone (1556–1616). He emigrated from Braintree, Essex in England to what soon became Braintree, Massachusetts in about 1632–1633. He married Edith Rosamund Squire on 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England and they had ten children. While his descendant President John Quincy Adams believed Henry Adams to have been born in Braintree, Essex, numerous records have shown Henry Adams

title: John Adams Cummins

text: considerable estate. John Adams Cummins John Adams Kuakini Cummins (1835–1913) was a member of the nobility of the Kingdom of Hawaii who became a wealthy businessman, and was involved in politics as the kingdom was overthrown. John Adams Kuakini Cummins was born March 17, 1835 in Honolulu. He was a namesake of island governor John Adams Kuakini (1789–1844), who in turn took the name of John Quincy Adams when Americans first settled on the islands in the 1820s. His father was Thomas Cummins (1802–1885) who was born in Lincoln, England, raised in Massachusetts, and came to the Hawaiian Islands in

title: John Adams Cummins

text: John Adams Cummins John Adams Kuakini Cummins (1835–1913) was a member of the nobility of the Kingdom of Hawaii who became a wealthy businessman, and was involved in politics as the kingdom was overthrown. John Adams Kuakini Cummins was born March 17, 1835 in Honolulu. He was a namesake of island governor John Adams Kuakini (1789–1844), who in turn took the name of John Quincy Adams when Americans first settled on the islands in the 1820s. His father was Thomas Cummins (1802–1885) who was born in Lincoln, England, raised in Massachusetts, and came to the Hawaiian Islands in 1828. His

title: John Adams

text: loss to his former friend Thomas Jefferson, and he retired to Massachusetts. He eventually resumed his friendship with Jefferson by initiating a correspondence that lasted fourteen years. He and his wife generated a family of politicians, diplomats, and historians now referred to as the Adams political family, which includes their son John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. John Adams died on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, hours after Jefferson's death. Surveys of historians and scholars have favorably ranked his administration. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, to John

title: John Adams Hyman

text: John Adams Hyman John Adams Hyman (July 23, 1840 – September 14, 1891) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1875 to 1877, the first African American to represent the state in the House of Representatives. He was elected from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, including counties in the northeast around New Bern. Born into slavery in 1840 near Warrenton, North Carolina, Hyman did not receive any formal education as a child. By 1861, he was working as a janitor for a jeweler named King in Warrenton. King was from the free state of Pennsylvania and taught Hyman

title: John Adams Hyman

text: Harmony Cemetery. Hyman was survived by his wife and four children. Retrieved on 2009-04-26 John Adams Hyman John Adams Hyman (July 23, 1840 – September 14, 1891) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1875 to 1877, the first African American to represent the state in the House of Representatives. He was elected from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, including counties in the northeast around New Bern. Born into slavery in 1840 near Warrenton, North Carolina, Hyman did not receive any formal education as a child. By 1861, he was working as a janitor for a jeweler named

title: John Adams (New York)

text: brother. John Adams (New York) John Adams (August 26, 1778 Oak Hill, New York – September 25, 1854 Catskill, New York) was a United States Congressman from New York. He studied law, and taught school in Durham. He was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. He 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, he ran as a Federalist for the 14th United States Congress, and was declared elected due to a mistake made by the

title: John Adams (New York)

text: John Adams (New York) John Adams (August 26, 1778 Oak Hill, New York – September 25, 1854 Catskill, New York) was a United States Congressman from New York. He studied law, and taught school in Durham. He was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. He 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, he ran as a Federalist for the 14th United States Congress, and was declared elected due to a mistake made by the deputy

title: John Adams

text: McCullough, "Popular symbolism has not been very generous toward Adams. There is no memorial, no statue ... in his honor in our nation's capital, and to me that is absolutely inexcusable. It's long past time when we should recognize what he did, and who he was." John Adams John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, its first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President (1797–1801). He was a lawyer, diplomat, and leader of American independence from Great Britain. Adams was a dedicated diarist, and correspondent with

title: John Hicks Adams

text: John Hicks Adams John Hicks Adams (1820–1878) was an American 49er of the California Gold Rush, and Sheriff of Santa Clara County between February 6, 1864 and 1870, then again between 1871 and 1875. He was also Deputy United States Marshal for the Arizona Territory 1878, and a noted gunslinger. John Hicks Adams was born in Edwardsville, Illinois, on June 13, 1820. His father, John Adams Sr., was elected Sheriff of Madison County in 1838. John Jr., was appointed Deputy Sheriff; his duties included collecting taxes and taking care of court business. In December 1841, John married Mathilda Pomeroy. Their

title: John Hicks Adams

text: the prosecution of the murders. John Hicks Adams John Hicks Adams (1820–1878) was an American 49er of the California Gold Rush, and Sheriff of Santa Clara County between February 6, 1864 and 1870, then again between 1871 and 1875. He was also Deputy United States Marshal for the Arizona Territory 1878, and a noted gunslinger. John Hicks Adams was born in Edwardsville, Illinois, on June 13, 1820. His father, John Adams Sr., was elected Sheriff of Madison County in 1838. John Jr., was appointed Deputy Sheriff; his duties included collecting taxes and taking care of court business. In December 1841,

title: John Q. Adams (Wisconsin)

text: 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 1854-1856. He represented Columbia County, Wisconsin. Adams died on March 17, 1895 in Columbus. Adams married Lucy S. Pomeroy on June 11, 1846, and they had ten children. He and his family were Congregationalists. John Q. Adams (Wisconsin) John Q. Adams (October 5, 1816 – March 17, 1895) was an American teacher and politician. He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly. Adams was

title: John Adams

text: The only major political incident involving Adams during the Jefferson years was a dispute with Mercy Otis Warren in 1806. Warren, an old friend, had attacked Adams in a pamphlet for his "partiality for monarchy" and "pride of talents and much ambition." A tempestuous correspondence ensued. In time, their friendship healed. Adams did privately criticize the President over his Embargo Act, despite the fact that John Quincy voted for it. John Quincy resigned from the Senate in 1808 after the Federalist-controlled State Senate refused to nominate him for a second term. After the Federalists denounced John Quincy as no longer

title: John Adams Bownocker

text: of Professor of Inorganic Geology, and was also State Geologist of Ohio. John Adams Bownocker received a degree as Doctor of Science in 1897 and was a Professor and State Geologist at Ohio State University. He wrote numerous articles and books in the field of Geology. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. One of the founders of Association of American State Geologists . The "Bownocker Medal" is awarded by the advanced geologists. John Adams Bownocker Dr. John Adams Bownocker (March 11, 1865 –

title: John Quincy Adams

text: the conclusion of the trade agreement, much of Adams's time as ambassador was spent helping stranded American sailors and prisoners of war. In pursuit of national unity, newly-elected President James Monroe decided a Northerner would be optimal for the position of Secretary of State, and he chose the respected and experienced Adams for the role. Having spent several years in Europe, Adams returned to the United States in August 1817. Adams served as Secretary of State throughout Monroe's eight-year presidency, from 1817 to 1825. Taking office in the aftermath of the War of 1812, Adams thought that the country had

title: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)

text: in 1892), John Andrew Singleton (first elected in 1926) and Dr. Aaron Manasses McMillan (first elected in 1928). Adams married Constance Singleton in 1931, Constance was the daughter of Guy Singleton and Blanch Ellen Braxton. Guy was the brother of John Andrew and the son of Millard F. Singleton. Adams was initially a criminal lawyer and occasionally was involved in civil rights cases. In one case, he sued a restaurant who initially refused to serve him and his wife. When the police came and told the restaurant that the law required the restaurant to serve the Adams', the restaurant proceeded

title: John Adams

text: of monarchy, even constitutional monarchy of the sort advocated by John Locke. It supported a unicameral legislature and a weak executive elected by the legislature. According to Adams, the author had "a better hand at pulling down than building." He believed that the views expressed in the pamphlet were "so democratical, without any restraint or even an attempt at any equilibrium or counter poise, that it must produce confusion and every evil work." What Paine advocated was a radical democracy with the views of the majority neither checked nor counterbalanced. This was incompatible with the system of checks and balances

title: John Adams Bownocker

text: John Adams Bownocker Dr. John Adams Bownocker (March 11, 1865 – October 20, 1928) was an American geologist and educator. Born in St. Paul Pickaway County, Ohio to parents Michael Bownocker and Eliza (Adams) Bownocker. Married Anna K. Flint on June 12, 1911. Died in Columbus Franklin County, Ohio and was buried at Amanda Township, Fairfield County, Ohio Cemetery. Attended Ohio State University, 1883–89, receiving a degree as Bachelor of Science, in June 1889. He attended the University of Ohio from 1889-92 and held various positions in the Geology Department at the Ohio State University. Finally he held the position

title: John Adams (Ohio politician)

text: prices. The bill was signed into law by John Kasich, allowing for oil and gas to now be taken from state lands. Stating that no profession is immune from economic reality, Adams voted for a bill that limits collective bargaining for public employees. John Adams (Ohio politician) John Adams (born January 14, 1960) is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 85th District from 2007 to 2014. For part of his tenure he served as the majority whip. Adams was born in Urbana, Ohio and lives in Sidney, Ohio. He has studied at Mesa Community

title: John Jay Adams

text: John Jay Adams John J. Adams (1860–1926) was an American lawyer and judge. He served as the 4th Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 1909 to 1926. Adams was a practitioner at the Muskingum County bar and for six years judge of the Judicial Circuit of Ohio, he was born on 18 November 1860, on his father's farm (Prospect Place) near Dresden, Ohio, his parents being the late George Willison and Mary J. R. Adams. His primary education was obtained in the district schools and was continued in the High School at Dresden and Zanesville,

title: John Jay Adams

text: entire University during the period of the First World War when the University President was called away for military service. John Jay Adams John J. Adams (1860–1926) was an American lawyer and judge. He served as the 4th Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 1909 to 1926. Adams was a practitioner at the Muskingum County bar and for six years judge of the Judicial Circuit of Ohio, he was born on 18 November 1860, on his father's farm (Prospect Place) near Dresden, Ohio, his parents being the late George Willison and Mary J. R. Adams.

title: John J. Adams

text: John J. Adams John Joseph Adams (September 16, 1848 – February 16, 1919) was an American politician and a United States Congressman from New York State. Adams was born in Douglastown, New Brunswick (now part of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada) 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

title: John H. Adams (NRDC)

text: John H. Adams (NRDC) John Hamilton Adams (born 1936) is the founding director and trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, founded in 1970. Adams served as executive director and, later, as president of the nonprofit conservation group until 2006. Prior to co-founding NRDC, Adams served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University's law school. Adams graduated from Michigan State University and earned a law degree from Duke University in 1962. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Adams is currently chair of the board

title: John J. Adams

text: returned to the practice of law. Adams died suddenly, of heart disease (a year after suffering a stroke of paralysis), in the Ansonia Hotel, Manhattan, New York County, New York, on February 16, 1919 (age 70 years, 153 days). He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. John J. Adams John Joseph Adams (September 16, 1848 – February 16, 1919) was an American politician and a United States Congressman from New York State. Adams was born in Douglastown, New Brunswick (now part of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada) on September 16, 1848. He emigrated to the United States in 1864,

title: John Adams Sr. (Nebraska)

text: also served as president of Daniel Payne University at Birmingham, Alabama in 1935 where he served for four years. Adams' son, John Adams Jr. was a Nebraska State Legislator from 1935–1941. In 1942, John Jr. lost in an election against dentist Dr. Harry A Foster. In 1944, while Adams Jr. was serving in World War II, Adams Sr. decided to run for that seat, in Nebraska's fifth district, losing to Foster. Adams Sr. lost again in a primary in 1946. In 1948, Adams Sr. won, winning again against Foster in every election until 1962. As a legislator, he was an

title: John Adams Webster

text: John Adams Webster John Adams Webster (1789–1877) was a captain in the United States Navy, who, as a young third lieutenant, heard the sound of the British oars as its small flotilla approach Fort McHenry in Baltimore, September 13, 1814. He remained in the battle in spite of being wounded twice and received commendations for this from the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland. It was during this battle that Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”. Webster remained active in his military service serving as a captain in the Revenue Service until his death. John Adams

title: John R. Adams

text: John R. Adams John Randell Adams (born 1955) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Adams was born in Orrville, Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Bowling Green State University in 1978, followed by a Juris Doctor from University of Akron School of Law in 1983. He was a law clerk to W. F. Spicer of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas from 1983 to 1984. He then entered the private practice of law in Ohio until 1999, also working as an Assistant prosecutor in the

title: John Jay Adams

text: and Perry. Judge Adams was the first Republican judge elected to the circuit bench in this circuit, large Democratic Party majorities having previously been given. He served on the bench for the full term of six years, from 9 February 1895, until 9 February 1901. On 26 October 1892, Judge Adams was married to Dora May Black, who died 27 October 1904. Adams became the 4th Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1909. He served in that capacity until six months before his death in 1926. Mr. Adams was also twice "acting President" of the

title: Presidency of John Quincy Adams

text: Presidency of John Quincy Adams The presidency of John Quincy Adams began on March 4, 1825, when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1829. Adams, the sixth United States president, took office following the 1824 presidential election, in which he and three other Democratic-Republicans—Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson—sought the presidency. No candidate won a majority of Electoral College votes, and so the United States House of Representatives chose the president in a contingent election. With the help of Clay, Adams was elected by the House, and Clay

title: John H. Adams (NRDC)

text: of the Open Space Institute and sits on the boards of numerous other environmental organizations. John H. Adams (NRDC) John Hamilton Adams (born 1936) is the founding director and trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, founded in 1970. Adams served as executive director and, later, as president of the nonprofit conservation group until 2006. Prior to co-founding NRDC, Adams served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University's law school. Adams graduated from Michigan State University and earned a law degree from Duke University in 1962. He was

title: John Adams (born 1819)

text: County, Wisconsin. Adams was a Democrat. John Adams (born 1819) John Adams (June 1, 1819 – October 18, 1908) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Adams was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky on June 1, 1819. He and a half-brother relocated to Indiana around 1832, then Illinois in 1837, and finally to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in lead mining. Adams moved to Blue Mounds, Wisconsin in 1849, to Black Earth, Wisconsin in 1863, and later to Blanchardville, Wisconsin, where he built a grist mill. He moved to Pasadena, California in 1890.

title: John Adams (Ohio politician)

text: John Adams (Ohio politician) John Adams (born January 14, 1960) is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 85th District from 2007 to 2014. For part of his tenure he served as the majority whip. Adams was born in Urbana, Ohio and lives in Sidney, Ohio. He has studied at Mesa Community College and Edison State Community College. Adams was a Navy SEAL and later worked for Bethlehem Steel. He is the owner and operator of a furniture store. Adams has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Shelby County United Way

title: John J. Adams

text: 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

title: Billy Adams (politician)

text: Senate where he served until 1926, when he was elected as Governor of Colorado. In 1921, during his term as Colorado Senate Senator, Adams received approval on a bill that formed Alamosa State Normal School in Alamosa, Colorado. The college’s name was later changed to Adams State Teachers College in honor of its founder and finally to its present name Adams State University. Adams died on February 4, 1954, in Alamosa, Colorado, at the age of ninety-two where he is buried. John Adams, Billy's father, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Billy’s older

title: John Adams (born 1819)

text: John Adams (born 1819) John Adams (June 1, 1819 – October 18, 1908) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Adams was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky on June 1, 1819. He and a half-brother relocated to Indiana around 1832, then Illinois in 1837, and finally to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in lead mining. Adams moved to Blue Mounds, Wisconsin in 1849, to Black Earth, Wisconsin in 1863, and later to Blanchardville, Wisconsin, where he built a grist mill. He moved to Pasadena, California in 1890. Adams married Eliza Blanchard (1832–1911) in

title: John Adams (New York)

text: county clerk who had transcribed the returns. Credentials were issued by the Secretary of State of New York, but 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. 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. He also became a director of the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad in 1835. He was buried at the Thompson Street Cemetery in Catskill. State Senator Platt Adams (1792–1887) was his

title: John Adams (drummer)

text: at Cleveland State University since 1978. Adams has also volunteered his time as a member of the Kiwanis service club and the community emergency response team in his hometown and has taught CPR and water safety. John Adams (drummer) John Adams (born October 9, 1951) is a dedicated fan of the Cleveland Indians, a Major League Baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. Adams has played his bass drum in the bleacher seats during nearly every Indians home game since 1973, which has brought him notoriety and recognition from the Indians and other organizations. The Indians pay for two season tickets

title: John Quincy Adams

text: in 1802, but Adams broke with the Federalist Party over foreign policy and was denied re-election. In 1809, Adams was appointed as the U.S. ambassador to Russia by Democratic-Republican President James Madison. Adams held diplomatic posts for the duration of Madison's presidency, and he served as part of the American delegation that negotiated an end to the War of 1812. In 1817, newly-elected President James Monroe selected Adams as his secretary of state. In that role, Adams negotiated the Adams–Onís Treaty, which provided for the American acquisition of Florida. He also helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, which became a key

title: John Adams (Ohio politician)

text: Soon after, House colleagues elected Adams to be majority whip of the 129th General Assembly. He was sworn in as whip on January 3, 2011. He also serves on the committees of Commerce, Labor and Technology; Insurance and its Subcommittee on Workers' Compensation; Rules and Reference; and State Government and Elections. Adams is also chairing the Tax Structure Study Committee. Adams won a final term in 2012 unopposed. Adams is a member of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), serving as Ohio state leader. In the 128th Ohio General Assembly, Adams introduced a measure that sought to eliminate the

title: John Quincy Adams

text: Because no candidate won a majority of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Rather than seek election by the legislature, Adams withdrew his name from contention, and the legislature selected Davis. Adams was nearly elected to the Senate in 1835 by a coalition of Anti-Masons and National Republicans, but his support for Jackson in a minor foreign policy matter annoyed National Republican leaders enough that they dropped their support for his candidacy. After 1835, Adams never again sought higher office, focusing instead on his service in the House of Representatives. In the mid-1830s, the Anti-Masonic Party, the National

title: John Adams (educator)

text: was a member of the Yale Corporation from 1917 to 1934, and was acting president of Yale University from 1919 to 1920. A great-grandson of John Adams's was William Adams Delano. John Adams (educator) John Adams (September 18, 1772 – April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus recalls him: John Adams was born in 1772 at Canterbury, Connecticut, to Captain John Adams, a farmer

title: Henry Adams

text: was a member of an exclusive circle, a group of friends called the "Five of Hearts" that consisted of Henry, his wife Clover, geologist and mountaineer Clarence King, John Hay (assistant to Lincoln and later Secretary of State), and Hay's wife Clara. One of Adams's frequent travel companions was the artist John La Farge, with whom he journeyed to Japan and the South Seas. A long-time, intimate correspondent of Adams's was Elizabeth Cameron, wife of Senator J. Donald Cameron. In 1884, Adams was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1894, Adams was elected president of the American

title: Henry Adams (Wisconsin politician)

text: Henry Adams (Wisconsin politician) Henry Adams was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Adams was born on April 30, 1811 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Later, he owned a farm in what would become Mount Pleasant, Green County, Wisconsin before moving to Hardin County, Iowa and eventually Monroe, Wisconsin. Adams died on July 13, 1871. He was married to Sarah Mills. They had ten children. Adams was a member of the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. He served in the Assembly in 1848 before being elected to the Senate in 1867 and 1868. Adams was

title: John Donley Adams

text: W. Bush, and lived in Arlington, Virginia. He dealt with matters arising from the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. State Department. In 2008, Adams returned to Richmond, serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Among his cases, Adams prosecuted John W. Forbes, a former state finance secretary who pleaded guilty and in late 2010 was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for diverting about $4 million of a $5 million grant from the state Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission (which had intended to improve literacy in Southside Virginia and southwestern Virginia) to

title: John Adams

text: French frigate "Sensible" – accompanied by John Quincy and 9-year-old son Charles. Constant disagreement between Lee and Franklin eventually resulted in Adams assuming the role of tie-breaker in almost all votes on commission business. He increased his usefulness by mastering the French language. Lee was eventually recalled. Adams closely supervised his sons' education while writing to Abigail about once every ten days. In contrast to Franklin, Adams viewed the Franco-American alliance pessimistically. The French, he believed, were involved for their own self-interest, and he grew frustrated by what he saw as their sluggishness in providing substantial aid to the Revolution.

title: John Adams

text: Adams urged Washington to sign it to prevent war. Washington chose to do so, igniting protests and riots. He was accused of surrendering American honor to a tyrannical monarchy and of turning his back on the French Republic. John Adams predicted in a letter to Abigail that ratification would deeply divide the nation. The election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election. Twice, George Washington had been elected to office unanimously but, during his presidency, deep philosophical differences between the two leading figures in the administration – Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson – had caused a rift, leading

title: John Adams Gilmer

text: John Adams Gilmer John Adams Gilmer (November 4, 1805 – May 4, 1868) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. Gilmer was born in Guilford County, North Carolina near Greensboro. His parents were Robert Shaw Gilmer and Anne Forbes. He was the brother of Confederate Maj. Gen Jeremy Francis Gilmer. Gilmer attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro. After receiving his education, he taught school. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro. He later served as the Guilford County solicitor. He was a member of the State senate

title: Henry Adams (Wisconsin politician)

text: originally a Democrat and later a Republican. Henry Adams (Wisconsin politician) Henry Adams was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Adams was born on April 30, 1811 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Later, he owned a farm in what would become Mount Pleasant, Green County, Wisconsin before moving to Hardin County, Iowa and eventually Monroe, Wisconsin. Adams died on July 13, 1871. He was married to Sarah Mills. They had ten children. Adams was a member of the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. He served in the Assembly in 1848 before being elected to the

title: John Adams (educator)

text: John Adams (educator) John Adams (September 18, 1772 – April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus recalls him: John Adams was born in 1772 at Canterbury, Connecticut, to Captain John Adams, a farmer of Canterbury and an officer in the American Revolutionary War and Mary Parker, the daughter of Dea. Joshua Parker and Jemima Davenport. He graduated from Yale University in 1795. John Adams

title: John Adams Dix

text: Cemetery. John Adams Dix John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland legislature, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined

title: John Adams Dix

text: John Adams Dix John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland legislature, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the

title: John Adams Harper

text: John Adams Harper John Adams Harper (November 2, 1779 – June 18, 1816) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Derryfield, New Hampshire, Harper attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1794. He studied law and was admitted to the bar about 1802, commencing practice in Sanbornton. Harper was the first postmaster of Sanbornton, then moved to Meredith Bridge (now Laconia, Belknap County) in 1806. He served as clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, 1805–1808, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1809 and 1810. He served in the State militia,

title: John Adams

text: Rush. Adams generally stayed quiet on public matters. He did not publicly denounce Jefferson's actions as President, believing that "instead of opposing Systematically any Administration, running down their Characters and opposing all their Measures right or wrong, We ought to Support every Administration as far as We can in Justice." When a disgruntled James Callender, angry at not being appointed to an office, turned on the President by revealing the Sally Hemings affair, Adams said nothing. John Quincy was elected to the Senate in 1803. Shortly thereafter, both he and his father crossed party lines to support Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase.

title: John Bodkin Adams

text: John Bodkin Adams John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances. Of these, 132 left him money or items in their wills. He was tried and acquitted for the murder of one patient in 1957. Another count of murder was withdrawn by the prosecution in what was later described as "an abuse of process" by the presiding judge Sir Patrick Devlin, causing questions to be asked in Parliament about the prosecution's handling of

title: John Adams (poet)

text: John Adams (poet) John Adams (1704 – January 1740) was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap's friends formed a new society, and Adams was dismissed in about two years. He was distinguished for his intellect and piety. As a preacher he was much esteemed. His uncle, Matthew Adams, described him as "master of

title: John Adams (composer)

text: and its depictions of "the composer as scientist." The Darmstadt school of twelve tone composition was dominant during the time that Adams was receiving his college education, and he compared class to a "mausoleum where we would sit and count tone-rows in Webern." Adams experienced a musical epiphany after reading John Cage's book "Silence" (1973), which he claimed "dropped into [his] psyche like a time bomb." Cage posed fundamental questions about what music was, and regarded all types of sounds as viable sources of music. This perspective offered to Adams a liberating alternative to the rule-based techniques of serialism. At

title: John Adams

text: at once, and Adams accepted. On May 10, he asked Pickering to resign. Pickering refused and was summarily dismissed. Adams named John Marshall as Secretary of State and Samuel Dexter as Secretary of War. In 1799, Napoleon took over as head of the French government in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and declared the French Revolution over. News of this event increased Adams' desire to disband the provisional army, which, with Washington now dead, was commanded only by Hamilton. His moves to end the army after the departures of McHenry and Pickering were met with little opposition. Rather than allow

title: John Cranford Adams

text: John Cranford Adams John Cranford Adams (October 11, 1903 - November 24, 1986) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the second president of the Hofstra University from 1944–1964. Adams was born October 11, 1903 to John Davis and Mary (Cranford) Adams. He attended Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and received a B.A. in 1926 and a Ph.D. in 1935. He also studied at King's College, Cambridge, England from 1926-28. He was an instructor in English at Syracuse University from 1926 to 1928 and at Cornell from 1930-37. He

title: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)

text: Jr. defeated Dr. Harry Foster (5,808 votes to 5,632), campaigning against new taxes. Again for the 1941 legislature, Adams Jr. defeated Dr. Harry Foster (8,515 votes to 7,905), campaigning against new taxes and in support of various reforms to state and legislative processes. In the 1942 election, Adams lost to Foster (4,175 votes to 3,957) after having fought modernization of Douglas County office procedure. John Adams Jr. (Nebraska) John Adams Jr. (August 14, 1906 – April 19, 1999) was an American lawyer and Republican politician and a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina

title: John Adams, 1st Baron Adams

text: as Baron Adams, of Ennerdale in the County of Cumberland. He retired in 1959, and died in 1960. He is buried in Arlecdon churchyard. The Adams Recreation Ground at St Bees was created in his memory. Lord Adams married Agnes Jane Birney in 1914. They had one son, Thomas Adams (b. 1923), who died in infancy. As Lord Adams had no surviving male issue the title became extinct upon his death on 23 August 1960. John Adams, 1st Baron Adams John Jackson Adams, 1st Baron Adams OBE, JP, MA (12 October 1890 – 23 August 1960), often known as Jack

title: Charles W. Adams (Confederate general)

text: Catherine Everett Keller was the mother of Helen Keller. Adams was a presidential elector for John Bell in 1860. He was elected to the Arkansas secession convention in 1861 and vigorously advocated for secession of that state from the union. In 1861, Charles W. Adams first served the Confederacy as a major and quartermaster of Arkansas state troops under Brigadier General Thomas Bradley, soon succeeded by Major General James Yell. The Provisional Army of Arkansas was dissolved and incorporated into the Confederate States Army later in 1861. Adams then raised an infantry regiment, the 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment from the

title: John Cranford Adams

text: taught at Cornell from 1937 to 1944, first as assistant professor and then associate professor. He was named the second President of Hofstra University in 1944. During his 20 years tenure at Hofstra, the school grew from a small liberal arts college of 367 students to a major university with an enrollment of 9,000. The campus theater John Cranford Adams Playhouse and the John Cranford Adams Chair in Literature are named in his honor. John Cranford Adams John Cranford Adams (October 11, 1903 - November 24, 1986) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the second president

title: John Adams, 1st Baron Adams

text: John Adams, 1st Baron Adams John Jackson Adams, 1st Baron Adams OBE, JP, MA (12 October 1890 – 23 August 1960), often known as Jack Adams, was a British politician and public servant. The son of Thomas Adams and Mary Bowness, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Adams on 16 February 1949, the first Cumberland-born man to be so honoured since 1797. Born in 1890 in Arlecdon, Cumberland, he was educated at Arlecdon Council School, but left at an early age to earn family income; first in farm service, and then in the mines, as his father had

title: John Adams Sr. (Nebraska)

text: 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. While not formally trained as a lawyer, Adams was first admitted to the bar in South Carolina during the early 1900s. He practiced law in Orangeburg, South Carolina in a firm with Jacob Moorer, who was also black. In 1908, Moorer and Adams served as counsel for African American sharecropper

title: John Adams (miniseries)

text: While overseas, he spends time with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and Abigail visits him. Franklin informs John Adams that he was appointed as the first American Ambassador to Great Britain and thus has to relocate to London. John Adams is poorly received by the British during this time—he is the representative for a recently hostile power, and represents in his person what many British at the time regarded as a disastrous end to its early Empire. He meets with his former sovereign, George III, and while the meeting is not a disaster, he is excoriated in British newspapers. In

title: John Quincy Adams

text: Louisa. Nonetheless, Adams noted in his own diary that he had no regrets about his decision to marry Louisa. In 1796, Washington appointed Adams as the U.S. ambassador to Portugal. Later in that same year, John Adams defeated Jefferson in the 1796 presidential election. When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son as the U.S. ambassador to Prussia. 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. The State Department charged Adams with developing commercial

title: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)

text: the Ninth District Election against incumbent Democrat Johnny Owen and policeman Dan Phillips (1,308 votes to 1,207 and 1,183). He replaced Democrat Johnny Owen who was first elected in 1933. Owen's Republican predecessor in the ninth was Republican John Andrew Singleton, a black dentist with whom Adams had previous political involvement, forming the Consolidated Negro Political Organization in March 1933. The organization also included on its executive council John O. Wood, Andrew Stuart, and Harry Anderson. in 1936, Adams was opposed to the transformation of the Nebraska legislature to the unicameral form. He served in the 9th district of the

title: John Adams

text: John Adams John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, its first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President (1797–1801). He was a lawyer, diplomat, and leader of American independence from Great Britain. Adams was a dedicated diarist, and correspondent with his wife and advisor Abigail, and recorded important historical information on the era. A political activist prior to the American Revolution, Adams was devoted to the right to counsel and presumption of innocence. He defied anti-British sentiment and successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges arising

title: John Adams II

text: Adams became President, his son served as his private secretary. (In 1873 most of the students who took part in the 1823 incident, including John Adams II, were designated "Bachelor of Arts as of 1823" and admitted to Harvard's Roll of Graduates.) At a White House reception during the John Quincy Adams presidency, Russell Jarvis, an anti-Adams reporter for the "Washington Daily Telegraph", believed that President Adams publicly insulted Mrs. Jarvis. Since the President was considered to be immune from a dueling challenge, Jarvis attempted to initiate a duel with John Adams II, who had been at the reception. Jarvis's

title: John Adams, 1st Baron Adams

text: been killed in a mining accident when John Adams was only four. In 1910 he emigrated to New Zealand, along with men who later occupied cabinet posts in that country. He returned to West Cumberland in 1914, and plunged into local politics. In 1919 he led a successful election challenge to the sitting members of Arlecdon and Frizington District Council. This established the first all-Labour council to be elected in England, and he held the office of Chairman of the Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District Council from 1919 to 1923. He also became a County Councillor in 1919 and from

title: John Adams (miniseries)

text: John Adams (miniseries) John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book "John Adams" by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first 50 years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. "John Adams" received widespread critical acclaim and many prestigious awards. The show won

title: John Adams

text: collectors, and in March 1799 the bloodless Fries's Rebellion broke out. Led by Revolutionary War veteran John Fries, rural German-speaking farmers protested what they saw as a threat to their liberties. They intimidated tax collectors, who often found themselves unable to go about their business. The disturbance was quickly ended with Hamilton leading the army to restore peace. Fries and two other leaders were arrested, found guilty of treason, and sentenced to hang. They appealed to Adams requesting a pardon. The cabinet unanimously advised Adams to refuse, but he instead granted the pardon, using as justification the argument that the

title: John Adams Sr. (Nebraska)

text: John Adams Sr. (Nebraska) John Adams Sr. (February 2, 1876 – April 21, 1962) was an American minister, lawyer, and politician and a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, was a lawyer and minister in South Carolina, Washington State, and Colorado before settling in Omaha, Nebraska. While in South Carolina he took a civil rights case to the U.S. Supreme Court where he lost. He was the only black member of the Nebraska unicameral for much of his tenure from 1949–1962. He was an ordained minister and at the time of his death was

title: John Adams (glassmaker)

text: occupation which was discovering and trading in Chinese antiquities. There is an oral tradition among his descendants that John Adams was a related to the presidential Adams family. However, no evidence has been found to substantiate this claim. John Adams and family remain united in death. Their tombstones are arranged in a circle, around a large Adams Family obelisk, located in the Pittsburgh, Southside Cemetery. John Adams (glassmaker) John Adams, pioneer American glass manufacturer, and the founder of Adams Glass was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1823. He began working in glass manufacture at the age of 14. He

title: John Clayton Adams

text: John Clayton Adams John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams (1840 – 20 June 1906) was an English landscape artist Adams was born the second son of Mr. C.H. Adams in Edmonton, Middlesex (now in Greater London), and studied art at the Bloomsbury School and later under William Wilthieu Fenn. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, when he was 19, and, throughout the period 1863 to 1893, exhibited 75 pictures there, and 25 at the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1873 Adams moved to "Brackenhurst", Ewhurst Hill, near Guildford. Most of his landscapes depict scenes from counties

title: 29th New York State Legislature

text: legislators to have the charter approved, although the Democratic-Republican leaders advocated strongly against it. Gov. Morgan Lewis spoke out in favor of granting the charter what was resented by the party leaders DeWitt Clinton and Ambrose Spencer, and soon led to the split of the party into "Lewisites" and "Clintonians". The State election was held from April 30 to May 2, 1805. Senator Ezra L'Hommedieu (Southern D.) was re-elected. Peter C. Adams, James G. Graham (both Middle D.), Adam Comstock, John Veeder, Joseph C. Yates (all three Eastern D.), Nathaniel Locke and John Nicholas (both Western D.) were also elected

title: John Adams II

text: despondency over his brother George's alcoholism and 1829 suicide led to John's own descent into alcoholism. He died in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 1834 and is buried in Quincy's Hancock Cemetery. Mary Hellen Adams continued to reside with John Quincy and Louisa Adams and helped care for them in their old age. She died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire on August 31, 1870. John Adams II John Adams II (July 4, 1803 – October 23, 1834) was an American government functionary and businessman. The second son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, he is usually called John Adams

title: 52nd New York State Legislature

text: time of the election in November 1828, there were three political parties: the "Jacksonians" (supporting the election of Andrew Jackson for U.S. President; led by U.S. Senator Martin Van Buren), the "Adams men" (supporters of the re-election of President John Quincy Adams), and the "Anti-Masons". After the defeat of Adams, the Adams men became known as "Anti-Jacksonians". The State election was held from November 3 to 5, 1828. Martin Van Buren and Enos T. Throop were elected governor and lieutenant governor. 18 presidential electors for Andrew Jackson, and 16 for John Quincy Adams were elected in the congressional districts; and

title: John Adams (Canadian general)

text: John Adams (Canadian general) John Lawrence Adams, , (born May 31, 1942) was the Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada and Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence from July 2005 to January 2012. He was succeeded by John Forster. Adams graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada, earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering in 1965. Adams is also a Rhodes Scholar after graduating, in 1967, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University, in England, in 1967. He also graduated from the Army Staff College as well as the National Defence College. Adams joined

title: John Adams

text: Paine say what he will." In his retirement years, Adams moved away from some of the Puritan sentiments of his youth and closer to more mainstream Enlightenment religious ideals. He blamed institutional Christianity for causing much suffering but continued to be an active Christian while maintaining that religion was necessary for society. He became a Unitarian, rejecting the divinity of Jesus. David L. Holmes argues that Adams, while adopting central tenets of the Unitarian creed, accepted Jesus as the redeemer of humanity and the biblical accounts of his miracles as true. Franklin summed up what many thought of Adams when

title: John Adams High School (Indiana)

text: Adams High School. The school's 2008-2009 enrollment was approximately 2000, which made it the second largest high school in the South Bend metropolitan area. The mock trial team at Adams won two national titles, in 2009 and 2011, as well as 16 state titles, making it the most successful competitive high school mock trial program in state history. John Adams Athletics has a total of 27 Indiana State Championships and 2 National Championships. Seven sports have won state championships, and the mock trial program has won two national championships. In 1966, the football team was ranked 3rd in Indiana State

title: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)

text: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska) John Adams Jr. (August 14, 1906 – April 19, 1999) was an American lawyer and Republican politician and a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina and lived in Omaha, Nebraska after 1923. He served in the last session of the Nebraska House of Representatives and was the only black member of the first session of the Nebraska unicameral in 1937 where he served until 1941. He was named by the Omaha World Herald as one of the Legislature's 16 most able members. While a legislator, he introduced what became

title: John Quincy Adams and abolitionism

text: for abolition. Women, as non-voters, were not directly banned from petitioning per the gag rule. All of these parliamentary tricks were in vain, however, as the gag rule resulted in each being summarily dismissed. Miller discusses Adams’ actions on February 6, 1837 in great detail. On that day, John Quincy Adams stirred up the debate in the House with conniving adeptness by further challenges to the gag rule specifically as it concerned petitions. Adams began to present a petition from what he said were nine ladies from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Prevented from doing so by the house ban on such petitions,

title: John Adams Jr. (Nebraska)

text: (Robert Samardick) released Adams and reprimanded the officer. Adams was also active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Later in life, he worked as a real estate lawyer. Adams was the first second-generation black lawyer in Nebraska and less than two years out of law school saw a case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. John Adams Jr.'s first campaign for the state legislature was in 1932 when he ran in the tenth district against Democrat Edward J Dugan (Adams received 1,402 votes against Dugan's 2,594 in a democratic landslide). In 1934 he won the election in