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	James Otis
		James Otis was one of the most passionate and effective protectors of American rights during the 1760s, but his bright star dimmed during his lifetime and remains so today.
		At the beginning of his career, Otis was a political conservative and was rewarded for his loyalty in 1756, with an appointment as an advocate general in the vice admiralty court.
		The case was heard in February and Otis, in the fashion of the day, delivered an eloquent five-hour argument in which he maintained that the writs were a violation of the colonists’ natural rights and that any act of Parliament that abrogated those rights was null and void.
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	James Otis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Otis (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution.
		Otis subsequently authored several important patriotic pamphlets, served in the Massachusetts legislature and was a leader at the Stamp Act Congress.
		Otis at times counseled against the mob violence of the radicals and argued against Adams’s proposal for a convention of all the colonies resembling that of the British Glorious Revolution of 1688.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Otis (852 words)

	James Otis
		James Otis, the father, had sat his heart upon obtaining this place, and both father and son were extremely angry at the appointment of Hutchinson.
		Otis was elected mayor, and in his inaugural address took occasion to repel the charge of disloyalty to the Union, which had been repeatedly brought against the members of the Hartford convention.
		Otis may be mentioned especially his eulogy on Alexander Hamilton in 1804, and his argument in the United States senate on the Question of the admission of Missouri to the Union m 1820.
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	James Otis
		He was the eldest son of James Otis (1702-1778), fourth in descent from John Otis (1581-1657), a native of Barnstaple, Devon, and one of the first settlers (in 1635) of Hingham, Mass.
		The elder James Otis was elected to the provincial General Court in 1758, was its speaker in 1760-1762, and was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1764 until 1776; he was a prominent patriot in the colony of Massachusetts.
		Otis held the office of advocate-general at the time, and it was his duty to appear on behalf of the government.
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	James Otis - MSN Encarta
		James Otis (1725-1783), American colonial leader, born on February 5, 1725, in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College (now Harvard University).
		In a famous address to the court, in February 1761, Otis declared that any act passed by Parliament contrary to the natural rights of the American colonists was invalid.
		Otis was elected to the Massachusetts General Court (legislature) in 1761 and three years later became the head of the Massachusetts branch of the Committees of Correspondence.
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	James Otis, Jr. Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James Otis, Jr., was born on Feb. 5, 1725, in West Barnstable, Mass., the eldest of 13 children.
		Otis had been appointed a Crown official as advocate general, but he thought that the writs were indefensible and resigned his office to represent the protesting merchants.
		Otis was moderator of the town meeting called to consider effectual ways of preventing another such incident, and he counseled prudent measures.
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	James Otis
		Otis was born Feb. 5, 1725 at West Barnstable, MA into the high society of the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts.
		Otis's father, Colonel James Otis, Sr., had long been a leader in the political and mercantile world of Massachusetts (Galvin 14), serving as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and head of the popular party (Galvin 16).
		Otis also organized, and was elected a Representative to, the Stamp Act Congress which drafted a petition sent to Parliament.
	www.mnstate.edu /borchers/Research/otis.htm (2584 words)

	James Otis pre-revolutionist by John Ridpath
		Otis favored the unfortunate marriage, and perhaps brought it about--availing herself as it is said, of one of Mr.
		The Life of James Otis as narrated by William Tudor is one of the most pleasant and instructive in the whole range of American biographies, and leaves few particulars in the personal life of Otis to be gathered by the subsequent investigator.
		Otis opposed both the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act on the same broad principle on which Hampden in England resisted the payment of ship-money, namely, that neither measure was sanctioned by the representatives of the people on whom these contributions for the support of the government were to be levied.
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		James Otis, the Patriot, was born on February 5, 1725 at West Barnstable.
		He later said, "Otis was a flame of fire" and that he had "a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity." Otis even made reference to "my country" when referring to the colonies, marking the first instance of anyone conceiving of a nation separate and independent from the crown.
		In fact, one could argue that Otis was the very beginning, a decade and a half before the Declaration of Independence...a document under which his signature likely would have appeared if not for the events which transpired seven years earlier stripping him of his mind and the greater things that might have been.
	www.barnstablepatriot.com /sscape/jotis.html (1484 words)

	JAMESOTIS
		Contact US Otis, James (1725-1783) Pamphleteer: Otis graduated from Harvard in 1743, and was admitted to the bar five years later.
		Otis became one of the most influential patriot leaders before the Revolutionary War, writing pamphlets such as Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764).
		Otis was struck by lightning and killed in 1783.
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	§2. James Otis. VIII. American Political Writing, 1760–1789. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; ...
		James Otis the younger, for ten years past one of the leaders of the Massachusetts bar, and lately advocate-general, who, unable to support the application for the writs, had resigned his office, made the leading argument for the petitioners.
		Otis could impede, but he could not defeat, the applicaiton, and the writs were eventually issued.
		He had, however, raised the important question of the application of English law to the colonies, and the nature and extent of the “rights of Englishmen” which the colonial charters, in express terms, had guaranteed.
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	Who is James Otis - Reader's Write - Atlantic Highlands Herald - New jersey
		Otis must be responded to by everyone in public life who are advocates for truth and fairness.
		Otis bases this assertion on events which took place at the May 14, 2003 meeting of the Atlantic Highlands Mayor and Council.
		James Otis does, indeed exist, then he, or his landlord is in violation of local ordinance for not properly securing a certificate of occupancy.
	www.ahherald.com /readers_write/2003/030612_james_otis.htm (1086 words)

	Welcome to Founders of America!
		James Otis, Jr., the oldest of thirteen children, was born on February 5, 1725, in West Barnstable, Massachusetts.
		Otis continued to support the colonies in their struggle for equality with Great Britain in his The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved of 1764, in opposition of the Sugar Act.
		After Otis was prohibited from serving as Speaker of the General Court of Massachusetts, he and Samuel Adams protested against unjust British legislation with a circular letter calling the other twelve colonies to defy the Townshend Duties of 1767.
	www.foundersofamerica.org /jotis.html (1027 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Otis,
		Otis, James 1725-83, American colonial political leader, b.
		Barnstable, Mass.; sister of James Otis and wife of James Warren, who was speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives.
		Otis Secures China's First Platform Screen Door Installation; Guangzhou Metro Line 2 Is First Project by Otis-Westinghouse Brakes Alliance.
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	Timeline Bio: James Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James Otis was an American patriot, pamphleteer, and soldier.
		Otis attended Harvard College, and upon graduation studied law as an apprentice to a practicing attorney.
		Otis argued that Parliament had transgressed the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God" in taxing the colonists even though they were not represented in Parliament.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/FIWAR-timeline/JamesOtis.htm (233 words)

	Founder of the Month - James Otis by Monty Rainey
		Otis served the Boston vice-admiralty court as advocate general from 1756 to 1760, during which time, he became more active both politically and legally.
		This action infuriated the Otis family and led to Otis’s resignation as the king’s advocate general in the vice-admiralty court.
		Otis was vehemently opposed to the proposition of these new taxes and wrote a pamphlet entitled The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved.
	www.juntosociety.com /founders/jamesotis.html (1991 words)

	Otis, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Otis lost the case but soon became the leader of the radical wing of the colonial opposition to British measures.
		He was elected (1761) to the colonial assembly and was made head (1764) of the Massachusetts committee of correspondence.
		Hated by the conservatives, his election (1766) as speaker of the assembly was vetoed by the royal governor.
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	AllRefer.com - James Otis (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He resigned to oppose the issuing of writs of assistance by the superior court of Massachusetts; the writs, which authorized customs officials to search for smuggled goods, were virtually general search warrants.
		Arguing eloquently before the court, Otis claimed that the writs violated the natural rights of the colonials as Englishmen and that any act of Parliament violating those rights was void.
		In 1769, Otis was struck on the head during a quarrel with a commissioner of customs.
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	James Otis - Freedom Circle Directory
		"Otis challenged the writs as 'the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book.'...
		"When James Otis in 1761 delivered his memorable argument against writs of assistance, John Adams was present in the court-room...
		James Otis, The Pre-Revolutionist, by John Clark Ridpath, 1898
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	DOUGLASS : James Otis, "Against the Writs of Assistance," 1761 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Otis was Advocate-General when the legality of these proceedings was attacked, but promptly resigned his office when called upon to defend that legality.
		He was then retained by the Boston merchants as their counsel, though he declined the fee which they offered him, stating that in such a cause he despised all fees.
		He did not confine himself to the question at issue, but boldly discussed that which was even then beginning to be mooted, the question of rendering obedience to laws which were not made by the nation called upon to obey them.
	douglassarchives.org /otis_a34.htm (1268 words)

	South Portland Public Library \| James Otis Kaler Collection
		James Otis Kaler died of uremia after a short illness in 1912.
		In February 1973, James Otis Kaler's widow Amy, and sons, Stephen and Otis generously donated to the South Portland Library a collection of Kaler's manuscripts, books, and letters which became the James Otis Kaler Collection.
		James Otis gathered these first-hand accounts into a book that was published anonymously in 1896 as The Story of American Heroism.
	www.southportlandlibrary.com /kaler.html (403 words)

	James Otis Lights a Fire
		Otis spent two years immersed in his studies, and applied for the bar in 1748.
		In 1755, plump, round-faced James Otis married Ruth Cunningham, the shy but beautiful daughter of a Boston merchant.
		She was, writes author A.J. Langguth, "entirely committed to the conservative principles of her merchant father." During their marriage, James and Ruth Otis had a son and two daughters.
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	Mass Moments: James Otis, Jr., Enrages Colonial Governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Fifty years after Otis delivered a blistering attack on the British use of Writs of Assistance (general search warrants), Adams wrote, "Then and there the child Independence was born." Yet, even before the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, James Otis had already disappeared from public view.
		James Otis, Jr., was bornin 1725 in the Cape Cod village of West Barnstable.
		On May 23, 1783, James Otis stood in the doorway chatting with his friends who were seated inside.
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	James Otis Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rebel-rouser James Otis' passion for America's independence is so engaging, you'd believe that the British were still on their way!
		James Otis was born in Barnstable, MA on Feb. 5, 1725.
		As a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, Otis was an outspoken, independent thinker whose radical views and fiery orations served as political cannonballs aimed toward the oppressive British rule.
	www.bostontowncrier.com /james_otis_experience.htm (110 words)

	Boston 1775: James Otis, Jr., and Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In any case, Otis was the first American politician in decades to attack the institution of slavery.
		Well, Otis certainly wasn't alone in demanding liberty for himself in the most forceful terms while continuing to enjoy the benefits of being a wealthy upper-class man in a slaveowning society.
		In sum, James Otis, Jr., came from an elite family in Barnstable and was a top lawyer in Boston.
	boston1775.blogspot.com /2006/11/james-otis-jr-and-slavery.html (1044 words)

	James Otis Kaler Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		James Otis Kaler, a popular and prolific writer of boys' adventure stories in the late nineteenth century, is remembered today as the author of Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881), a work which has gone through some thirty editions and remains in print.
		Kaler, the son of James Otis and Maria Thompson Kaler, was born in Frankfort (now Winterport), Maine, on 19 March 1848.
		James Otis Kaler from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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	James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist by J.C. Ridpath
		Mercy, oldest sister of James Otis, was married to James Warren
		A conversation of James Otis is narrated by Francis Bowen, in
		Otis to be gathered by the subsequent investigator.
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	James Otis - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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