John Adams was born on October 30, 1735. Adams was raised on his father's farm, and graduated from Harvard College in 1775, ranking 14th in his class of 24 students. Adams was considered the best scholar in his class. He studied law in the office of James Putnam in Worcester, Massachusetts. Ten years later He moved to Boston to become a lead attorney of the Massachusetts colony. John Adams wrote articles in a newspaper called the Boston Gazette against the Stamp Act tax.

Adams served as a delegate from Massachusetts to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774 and to the second Continental Congress, witch met in 1775. Adams was a member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Adams went to Paris to sigh the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. He was accompanied by John Jay and Ben Franklin (the treaty of Paris in 1783). John Adams was the Vice President of the United States in 1789 and elected again in 1792, Adams was the second President of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. Adams family was the first family to live in the White House. John Adams died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Bibliography:

"John Adams." The World Book Encyclopedia, 1996 ed.

Buske, Morris. Significant American Colonial Leaders. Chicago: Children's Press, 1978.