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to Francis Dana to Russia and later served as minister to Berlin. In 1802 he was elected from the state senate to the United States senate over Timothy Pickering by a vote of 171 to 86. and no man worked against greater odds that Adams did in the senate. He was unpopular from the beginning - partly because of his fathers unpopularity but more because of his independence of party. After a few months in the senate Adams writes in his diary, 'My election to the senate has opened to me a scene of some sort though not altogether new and will probably affect my future situation in life. The country is so wholly given up to the spirit of party that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offence. The worst of these parties has the popular torrent in its favor and uses its triumphs with all

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114 to Francis Dana to Russia and later served as minister to Berlin. In 1802 he was elected from the state senate to the United States senate over Timothy Pickering by a vote of 171 to 86. and no man worked against greater odds that Adams did in the senate. He was unpopular from the beginning - partly because of his fathers unpopularity but more because of his independence of party. After a few months in the senate Adams writes in his diary, 'My election to the senate has opened to me a scene of some sort though not altogether new and will probably affect my future situation in life. The country is so wholly given up to the spirit of party that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offence. The worst of these parties has the popular torrent in its favor and uses its triumphs with all