James Bowdoin
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James Bowdoin II was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who was active during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merch
Portrait by Robert Feke, c. 1748
Portrait of Bowdoin as a child by John Smibert
Governor Francis Bernard
John Hancock (British mezzotint, 1775) was a perennial opponent of Bowdoin in matters political and personal.
John Adams
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John Adams was a Founding Father and 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 Grea
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…Massachusetts wrote its own constitution in 1779, he was president of the convention called to create it, and chairman of the committee that drafted it. John Adams, also a committee member, is generally credited as the major author of the new constitution, although Bowdoin and Samuel Adams likely made significant…
Portrait, c. 1800–1815
Adams's birthplace in present-day Quincy, Massachusetts
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence depicting the Committee of Five presenting its draft of the Declaration to the Congress in Philadelphia; Adams appears in the center with his hand on his hip.
The Assembly Room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence