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| | Josiah Quincy |
 | | Josiah Quincy (February 4, 1772-July 1, 1864) was a Congressman, judge of the Massachusetts municipal court, state representative, mayor of Boston and president of Harvard College. |
 | | Quincy worked with other Unitarian laymen and ministersnotably Rev. Joseph Buckminsterto improve the human condition through public, but exclusive, institutions by which they attempted to demonstrate to an occasionally skeptical public the virtues that would legitimate the continuation of elite rule within a republican society. |
 | | Quincy's extensive papers, predominantly correspondence, journals and public speeches, are in the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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