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    James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, colonial legislator, and early supporter of patriotic causes...
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    that we are represented in parliament? — James Otis, Rights of British Colonies Asserted In 1765 Otis Jr. attended the Continental Congress, otherwise...
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    James Otis Sr. (1702–1778) was a prominent lawyer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. His sons James Otis Jr. and Samuel Allyne Otis also rose to prominence...
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  • James Otis may refer to: James Otis Sr. (1702–1778), Massachusetts lawyer and public official James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), American revolutionary politician...
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    justice, that we are represented in parliament? — James Otis, Rights of British Colonies Asserted Otis, Jr., attended the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 along...
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    Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American second tenor/baritone singer. He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer...
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  • Allyne Otis. James Otis (1826–1875), Mayor of San Francisco, California 1873–1875. Second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis. John G. Otis (1838–1916)...
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  • Hamilton Patrick Henry Timothy Matlack Filippo Mazzei William Molineux James Otis Jr. Thomas Paine Molly Pitcher Samuel Prescott Paul Revere Roger Sherman...
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    Massachusetts Circular Letter was a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr., and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (as constituted...
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    Boston Brahmin (section Otis)
    College. Otis family James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), revolutionary Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), playwright, revolutionary Samuel Allyne Otis (1740–1814)...
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  • as James Otis Jr. Romney Brent as Governor Bernard Rita Vale as Ruth Otis Elizabeth Johnson as Mary Otis Anne Seymour as Mercy Otis Warren (Otis's sister)...
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    John Adams (redirect from John Adams, Jr)
    developed an early habit of diary writing; this included his impressions of James Otis Jr.'s 1761 challenge to the legality of British writs of assistance, which...
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    Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters...
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    – merchant, smuggler, fire warden James Otis – lawyer, Massachusetts Paul Revere – silversmith, fire warden James Swan – financier Isaiah Thomas – printer...
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    Hull, Judith Quincy Hull, Daniel Quincy; Hull-Quincy Tomb (Tomb 185) James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), lawyer, Revolutionary War Patriot Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814)...
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  • Otis Livingston Graham Jr. (1935–2017) was an American historian, with a special interest in political history, immigration, and public history. Born...
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  • toward them, and they made a "target practice" for them at Lexington. James Otis, Jr.: A lawyer and architect of the ideals of the American Revolution; his...
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    closely associated with James Otis, Jr., a member of the Massachusetts House famous for his defense of colonial rights. Otis boldly challenged the constitutionality...
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    Saturn V rocket that was struck by lightning shortly after liftoff. James Otis Jr. – Contemporary of Ben Franklin, killed at doorway by lightning in Andover...
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    was eventually purchased by James and Mercy Otis Warren (the latter being the sister of his long-time enemy James Otis, Jr.) Bitter and disillusioned about...
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  • focused his attention on uncovering Patriot conspiracies by the likes of James Otis Jr. and Samuel Adams. The Patriot cause through speeches, pamphlets and...
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  • James Cornish Otis, Jr. (March 23, 1912 – March 15, 1993) was a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1961 to 1982. He was the father of Todd Otis...
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    (1817–1825); Negotiated the Louisiana Purchase along with Robert Livingston. James Otis Jr., pamphleteer, one of the earliest proponents of patriotic causes, an...
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    Elizabeth Gray Otis, stayed behind with her husband Samuel Allyne Otis [1740–1814], brother of pamphleteer James Otis, Jr. and author Mercy Otis Warren. Harrison...
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    British policies had been made regularly by Patriots starting with James Otis Jr., and took little account of the far harsher reality of slavery. Jay...
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    Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis's composition...
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  • Boston attorney James Otis Jr. A countersuit was filed by a British customs agent Paxton, and together these are known as "Paxton's case". Otis argued the...
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    : 235 : 105–106 : 186  As early as 1764, the Boston Patriot leader James Otis, Jr. declared that all men, "white or black", were "by the law of nature"...
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    1676, letters of administration were granted to her son-in-law John Rouse Jr. of Marshfield, husband of her daughter Elizabeth. She was buried in Winslow...
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    been equally fitting for Otis – "an old and faithful servant of the Senate." Harrison Gray Otis James Otis, Jr. Mercy Otis Warren http://bioguide.congress...
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