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4 days ago · October 30, 1735–July 4, 1826 — Second President of the United States. John Adams was a Founding Father, America's First Ambassador to the Court of St. James and the Second President of the United States. He was also the first Vice President, serving two terms under George Washington.
- Randal Rust
Jun 12, 2024 · The first presidential election. Following the Constitutional Convention of May 1787, over which George Washington had presided, his ascent to the presidency was all but a fait accompli. As commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, Washington had proven masterful at balancing the strategic and political demands of the office.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 20, 2024 · Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams discusses the history of the founding fathers of the United States. The opening chapter on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 analyzes how the founding fathers created a unique institution, the presidency.
1 day ago · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
3 days ago · Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), Adams won a narrow victory over Thomas Jefferson to be elected as the second president of the United States in 1796.
- John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
Jun 26, 2024 · He wove together practical examples of women’s political activism from the ancient world to the American Revolution with a theoretical argument in favor of women’s essential public role in republican societies, in particular as a natural outgrowth of their private role in the home and family. —Sarah A. Morgan Smith.
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3 days ago · John Adams - Continental Congress & Constitution: In the summer of 1774, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts delegation that joined the representatives from 12 of 13 colonies in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress.
