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Portrait painting by Gilbert Stuart of John Adams, shown seated and facing forward, wearing a dark coat and white cravat against a plain brown background. Samuel Adams Charles Francis Adams Charles Francis Adams III Adams, Brooks
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Portrait painting by Gilbert Stuart of John Adams, shown seated and facing forward, wearing a dark coat and white cravat against a plain brown background.
U.S. Pres. John Adams John Adams, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1800–15; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 73.7 × 61 cm.

Adams family

American political and intellectual family
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Adams family, Massachusetts family with deep roots in American history whose members made major contributions to the nation’s political and intellectual life for more than 150 years. Established in America by Henry Adams, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1636, the family made no special mark until the time of John Adams (1735–1826). Perhaps the most profound political philosopher of the Revolutionary and early national periods of U.S. history, Adams also served...

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