Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
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| Birth: | 29th May, 1770 |
| Death: | 30th November, 1800 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
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Charles Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
At the age of nine he traveled with his father and older brother John Quincy to Europe, studied briefly in Passy, Amsterdam, and Leyden.
In December 1781, Adams returned to America unaccompanied by family members. After graduating from Harvard University in 1789, he studied law and established his practice in New York.
On August 29, 1795, Adams married Sally Smith (1769–1828), the sister of his brother-in-law, William Stephens Smith. They had two daughters, Susanna Boylston (1796–1884) and Abigail Louisa Smith (1798–1836).
He died of alcoholism in 1800 at Quincy, Massachusetts.
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