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"John Roy Lynch: U.S. Congressman from Mississippi", Negro History Bulletin, 37 (April/May 1974): 238–41. Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South 1790–1915 (Urbana, Ill., 1990) The Amazing World of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans Publishing, 2015), a biography for children, written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Don Tate.
John R. Lynch was born into slavery in 1847 and was freed in 1863 after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He entered politics shortly after the end of the Civil War , was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1869, and was made speaker of the house in 1872.
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as 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 Great Britain.
John Adams. is a 2001 biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 2008 television miniseries of the same name by HBO Films.
The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library; Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive at the Massachusetts Historical Society; Founders Online – Printed Volumes: John Adams from the National Archives; John Adams Papers at the Avalon Project "Life Portrait of John Adams", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, March 22, 1999
The presidential wreath lies on the crypt of President John Adams in honor of his 285th birthday during a ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy in 2020.
John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling U.S. Founding Father and president John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper and starred Paul Giamatti in the title role. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the 2001 book John Adams. by David ...
The first seven chapters were produced by John Quincy Adams. [1] The premier modern biography was Honest John Adams, a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard, who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Jefferson. For a generation, Chinard's work was regarded as the best life of ...