John Adams
- 7 Members Following
Follow a topic to see new activity, such as homework help questions and answers, in your personal feed on the homepage.
At a glance:
- Author: John Adams
Biography
John Adams, the second president and the first vice president of the United States, was born in the settlement of Braintree in the colony of Massachusetts on October 30, 1735. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1755 with the intention of entering the ministry. Deciding that he could not subscribe wholeheartedly to Calvinist doctrine, he turned instead to the law and studied in Boston after a brief period of teaching school in Worcester, Massachusetts. He passed his bar examinations in November of 1758 and set up practice in Braintree. In 1764, following...
(The entire page is 1041 words.)
Want to read the whole thing?
Subscribe now to read the rest of this article. Plus, get access to:
- 30,000+ literature study guides
- Critical essays on more than 30,000 works of literature from Salem on Literature (exclusive to eNotes)
- An unparalleled literary criticism section. 40,000 full-length or excerpted essays.
- Content from leading academic publishers, all easily citable with our "Cite this page" button.
- 100% satisfaction guarantee READ MORE
Popular Questions
See all »- What was the cause of John Adam's death?
- List three traits of the letters between Abigail and John Adams and some examples?
- In chapter 6 of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, why was the correspondence between Adams and Jefferson so...
- No medal for being 2nd... How difficult was it for John Adams to follow George Washington as the second president, as opposed to all those...
