John Adams (1735–1826)
President John Adams nominated Bushrod Washington to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1798.
John Adams was born on 30 October 1735 in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1755, was admitted to the bar in 1758, and in 1764 married Abigail Smith, the daughter of a prominent congregationalist minister. The Adamses would have four children live to maturity, including John Quincy Adams.
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John Adams at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.