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John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.
John Adams married his first wife Elizabeth Ripley on May 8, 1798, [1] [6] with whom he had ten children. She was born on March 12, 1776, and died on February 23, 1829. She was a daughter of Gamaliel Ripley and Judith Perkins and was a great-great-granddaughter of Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.
Dix was born on November 1, 1827, in New York City. He was the son of Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, and Major General John Adams Dix, U.S. Senator from New York (from 1845 to 1849), Secretary of the Treasury (from January–March 1861), Governor of New York (from 1873 to 1874) and Union major general during the Civil War.
Rev. Charles Adams was born to preach. At Detroit's Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, he held congregants in thrall. Adams died Wednesday.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
A smiling Rev. Jesse Jackson stood behind Adams as he finished his profound and stirring 11-minute tribute to Parks. In the press row at the back of Greater Grace Temple, I just chuckled quietly.
John Hurst Adams (November 27, 1927 - January 10, 2018) was an American civil rights activist and Bishop in African Methodist Episcopal Church. He also served as a college president. He also served as a college president.
Mr. Adams recalls spending a lot of time with the family of Hartford's pastor, the Rev. Charles A. Hill Sr., who in the '40s served as president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP. (The Detroit ...