• Bronze sculpture of James Otis Jr. in front of the Barnstable County Courthouse. James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American lawyer, political activist...
  • A trained lawyer and master of argument, James Otis was a leader of the Patriot movement in Boston in those years.
  • Over the past 100 years or so, it’s been an axiomatic observation by historians that James Otis was, to some degree, insane by at least the early 1760s.[1] Further...
  • “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” James Otis reportedly said in protest of the lack of colonial representation in Parliament .
  • James Otis was a Harvard graduate who in the 1750’s quickly rose to become one of the most sought-after lawyers in Boston.
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  • Interesting facts about the life of James Otis, the patriotic lawyer in colonial Massachusetts. Short Biography about James Otis Jr.
  • James Otis (1725–83) was a lawyer in Massachusetts and a member of the Massachusetts Legislature.
  • Date of Birth: James Otis was born on February 5, 1725, in present-day West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Parents: His parents were James Otis Sr. and Mary Allyne.
  • His son James Otis Jr. was a political activist and pamphleteer, legislator and lawyer who advocated Patriot views which foreshadowed the American Revolution.