In his years after the Presidency, this son of the second President served in the US House of Representatives with a distinction not often equaled. Late in his life he is asked to defend against an appeal to the Supreme Court to override the decisions of lower courts on what came to be known as the Amistad matter. Reluctant to take the case for a number of reasons, among them age and lack of practice, Adams exhibits his intense belief in the necessity of the rule of law which he must articulate with the passion of his convictions. Adams’ decision is wrenched from him by the members of the Amistad crew with the help of Horace Greeley.
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Each of these short plays ... seizes the moment and renders it in complete dramatic opposition and resolution. -- J.H. Crouch, Professor Emeritus of the University of Colorado and Founder of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival
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David S. Grogan of Keaau, Hawaii is a retired minister of The United Church of Christ and a graduate of DePauw University and the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA. Although a native of West Bend, WI, Grogan has traveled the nation in varying capacities: from Indiana (DePauw) to Colorado as a printer, to Florida and Massachusetts as a student and eventually Executive Secretary of the Cape Cod Council of Churches as well as pastor of the Leyden Congregational Church in Brookline, MA. Thence he returned to Colorado as a mountain building inspector (Gilpin County) and became involved in politics and real estate. Subsequently he led two Congregational churches in Loveland and Denver. Grogan has been an actor (on stage and in films and television), director and entrepreneur, as well as a newspaper columnist. Now living with his wife in Hawaii, he is a retired pastor of two Hawaiian churches, studies the piano, and wrote John Quincy Adams for The History Project.
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