Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1793
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BORN:
30 October 1735 in the
north precinctof Braintree, Massachusetts (now Quincy)
DIED:
4 July 1826 at his home, Peacefield, in Quincy, Massachusetts
Buried at Quincy, in a crypt at United First Parish Church.
Buried at Quincy, in a crypt at United First Parish Church.
AUTHOR OF
- Novanglus; or, A History of the Dispute with America, From Its Origin, in 1754, to the Present, 1775
- Thoughts on Government, 1776
- A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America, 1787
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He is vain, irritable and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him. He is as disinterested as the being which made him: he is profound in his views: and accurate in his judgment except where knowledge of the world is necessary to form a judgment. He is so amiable, that I pronounce you will love him if ever you become acquainted with him. He would be, as he was, a great man in Congress.
— Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, 1788.
Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.
CONNECTED TO:
Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Jefferson, Thomas | Rush, Benjamin | Warren, Joseph