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John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in the town of Braintree, Massachusetts (present-day Quincy). He received his education at Harvard University and, after a brief period of teaching, turned to the field of law. In 1759, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Boston. In 1764, he married Abigail Smith. The couple had six children, one of whom—John Quincy Adams—would later become President of the United States. From the mid-1760s onward, Adams began to adopt an oppositional s