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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Public Life
Local, Provincial, and State Politics
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Superior Court20
Boston17
visitor to schools1
PJA01
General Court, Council15
and creation of Mass. Navy1
PJA03
drafts proclamation to inculcate obedience to government1
PJA03
election to, vetoed1
PJA03
Braintree14
attendance at town meetings1
PJA02
chosen selectman1
PJA02
on committee for minutemen1
PJA02
on South Common committees1
PJA01
talked of as candidate for governor14
Massachusetts11
resigns chief justiceship of Superior Court10
member of General Court from Boston9
General Court, House of Representatives8
Provincial Congress8
and election to second congress1
PJA02
committee assignments1
PJA02
election to1
PJA02
“I am determined, if Things are Settled, to avoid public Life. I have neither Fortune, Leisure Health nor Genius for it”1
PJA02
returns from1
PJA02
service in1
PJA02
“Abstract” of writs of assistance argument in 17615
argues before Governor and Council on behalf of Boston for reopening courts in 17654
drafts Boston Instructions to its Representatives in 17694
General Court4
elected to Council in 1773 and 1774 by House but negatived by Governor3
LJA01
elected to House of Representatives from Boston in 17703
LJA01
drafts Braintree's Instructions to its Representatives in General Court in 17652
elected Braintree selectman in 17662
LJA01
LJA03
falsely rumored to have charged that Hancock, Cooper, and Sullivan were in pay of France2
aids committee to draft answer to Hutchinson's speech1
DJA03
asked by Sewall to take over position as advocate general in Admiralty1
LJA02
assigned a chair in the Mass. House1
DJA03
attends Sons of Liberty meeting1
DJA01
Braintree delegate to 1st Provincial Congress1
AFC01
commissioned justice of peace and quorum in Suffolk County1
AFC01
contest with Thayer for election to General Court from Braintree1
DJA01
declines office of advocate general in admiralty court1
DJA03
declines to deliver Massacre oration1
DJA02
declines to stand again for Braintree selectman in 17681
LJA03
defeated for election to General Court in 17661
LJA01
drafts constitution of Mass.1
DJA02
drafts House's reply to Hutchinson on Parliament's power to bind colonies by legislation1
LJA01
draftsman of political manifestoes for Boston1
LJA02
elected Braintree selectman in 17751
LJA03
elected member of Council by House in 17751
LJA03
impeachment proceedings against Peter Oliver1
DJA02
involved in Braintree highway problems1
LJA03
involved in clubs and caucuses in Boston politics1
LJA01
involved in controversy over judges' salaries1
LJA01
nonimportation campaign1
LJA01
obtains appointment of brother as deputy sheriff1
DJA01
on Braintree committee on Continental Association1
DJA02
on town committee to write British radicals about Boston Massacre1
LJA03
patriotic oration at Braintree1
DJA02
prepares report on Massachusetts' territorial claims1
DJA03
resigns chief justiceship of Massachusetts without serving1
AFC03
resigns from Mass. Council in 17761
LJA03
resigns seat in Council after complaints about plural officeholding1
AFC01
rivalry with Robert Treat Paine1
AFC01
role in impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Peter Oliver1
AFC01
speech on amendment procedure delivered in Constitutional Convention (1779)1
AFC03
vouches for Thomas Brattle1
AFC05
work on Mass. boundary disputes1
AFC05
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