U.S. PRESIDENTS (1735–1826); BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS. In addition to being the United States’s second president after George Washington, John Adams was a prominent lawyer and political author.

In 1797, John Adams became the second American president, having won election by three votes in the Electoral College. Although George Washington had set a momentous precedent by relinquishing power — ...

Adams wrote to neighbor Ellen Maria Brackett on Dec. 14, 1824. Hulton Archive. The autographed letter from the Founding Father and former president is clearly its most valuable artifact.

John Adams, the nation’s first vice president, called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” In 1796, with George Washington’s endorsement, Adams ...

In the third, the office fell smoothly to his vice president, John Adams. By 1800, however, for the first time in our constitutional history, the election was contested.

Replay: John Adams, What A Guy July 4th marks the anniversary of John Adams's death. The second president of the United States was a whiny, cantankerous and classic American.

QUINCY − President John Adams' 288th birthday will be celebrated at noon Monday, Oct. 30, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center. Cmdr. Mathew Miller ...

John Adams, the long-neglected president From Quincy, will finally get his due in David McCullough’s forthcoming biography. Email to a Friend Share on Facebook ...

President John Quincy Adams sits for a painted portrait in a library in 1826. (T. ... July 11, 2017. Share. Save. July 11 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Quincy Adams.