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My Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant Office that ever… — John Adams

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My Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant Office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived.

John Adams
1793
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Vice PresidencyAmerican politics
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1793American Revolutionary Period
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John Adams
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“John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 December 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-09-02-0278.
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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 19 Dec. 1793.

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