did he go to college?
Yes, to Harvard College
John Adams
At age sixteen, Adams entered Harvard College in 1751, studying under Joseph Mayhew. 
who was the declaration of independence written by It was drafted by The Committee of Five, whose members included John Adams and Thomas Jefferson among others who signed it? Representatives of New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut and others when was it published? 4 July, 1776 was there a preamble? Yes, written by John Adams what was this person's profession? He was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat and writer.
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John Adams [SEP] College education and adulthood
At age sixteen, Adams entered Harvard College in 1751, studying under Joseph Mayhew. As an adult, Adams was a keen scholar, studying the works of ancient writers such as Thucydides, Plato, Cicero, and Tacitus in their original languages. Though his father expected him to be a minister, after his 1755 graduation with an A.B. degree, he taught school temporarily in Worcester, while pondering his permanent vocation. In the next four years, he began to seek prestige, craving "Honour or Reputation" and "more from [his] fellows", and was determined to be "a great Man." He decided to become a lawyer to further those ends, writing his father that he found among lawyers "noble and gallant achievements" but, among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces." His aspirations conflicted with his Puritanism, though, prompting reservations about his self-described "trumpery" and failure to share the "happiness of [his] fellow men." As the French and Indian War began in 1754, Adams, aged nineteen, began to struggle with his responsibility in the conflict as many of his contemporaries joined the war for money.