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"<p class=\"font-16\">John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/place/Quincy-Massachusetts\" class=\"md-crosslink\">Quincy</a>), <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts\" class=\"md-crosslink\">Massachusetts</a>. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams, he was encouraged to aspire to the ministry and graduated from <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Harvard-University\" class=\"md-crosslink\">Harvard College</a> (1755). He taught grammar school for three years before choosing law rather than the ministry as his career. </p>"
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