ADAMS, John [1735-1826] -- American politician and statesman, 2° POTUS
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Signer: U.S. Declaration of Independence
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United States, vPOTUS 1
He graduated from Harvard College in 1755; chose law as a profession; and was admitted to the bar in 1761. In 1764 he married Abigail Smith, ¤ an accomplished daughter of the Rev. William Smith. In 1770 he was chosen representative from Boston in the Massachusetts assembly, and in 1774 he was elected to the first continental congress. He was re-elected in 1776, and was one of the committee which drafted the declaration of independence in June of that year, and was a signer of that document. Adams was appointed as commissioner to the court of France in December, 1777, and returned in 1779. After his return he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts convention for framing a constitution, and on the 29th of September, 1779, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to treat with Great Britain for peace and commerce. He was soon after appointed minister to Holland, and recalled in July, 1781, to Paris. In January, 1785, he was appointed minister to England, and occupied that post until 1788, when he resigned and returned home. He was elected first vice-president of the United States, and took the oath of office April 21, 1789, which office he held, by re-election, until March 4, 1797. He was elected president in 1796, and took the oath of office March 4, 1797, at Philadelphia. He was defeated for a re-election, and, at the close of his official term, he retired to his farm at Quincy. John Adams held office over twenty-five years, and died moderately well off, on July 4, 1826, with the same words on his lips which, fifty years before, on that day, he had uttered on the floor of congress: "Independence forever!"
It was as vice-president that he had a seat in the senate.
In 1856 his life and writings were published in ten volumes,
edited by his grandson,
C. F. Adams. ¤
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1789-1797 | 1° vPOTUS |
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- Viv�simo - Clustered search on henry brooks adam
- Works by
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Henry Adams (1838-1918) a teacher's guide
- Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics)
- Esther Henry Adams' second and last novel, was published in 1884 under the penname of Francis Compton Snow.
- Quotations
- For sale
- Quotation collections
- Online / electronic texts
- Henry Adams Collection at Bartleby.com Includes writings about Adams.
- The Tendency of History 1894 presidential address to the American Historical Association, by Henry Adams.
- Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- Chronologies, synopses
- A Biography of Henry Adams by Edward Chalfant (reviews)
- Henry Adams Another biography
- Adams, Henry on Encyclopedia.com 2002 Electric Library's Encyclopedia.com
- Adams, Henry
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Suites
- Find A Grave
- Adams Memorial Historian Henry Adams commissioned (of Saint-Gaudens) this remarkable monument for the grave of his wife, Marion Hooper Adams, who died by suicide in 1885.
- 14n2Summer/Mills More (much more!) on the Saint-Gaudens memorial Adams commissioned for his wife.
- Readings
- Henry Adams Caricature a medalion by Saint-Gaudens
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Biographical
- Collections, archives - Papers
- Historical context, background
- Places (residences, etc)
- FYI France (sm)(tm) 12.65b Chartres, la ville An extensive bibliography
- Gallery
Associated |
- Wife: ¤ADAMS, Abigail [1744-1818] American writer, First Lady of the United States, FLOTUS
- Grandson: ¤ADAMS, Charles Francis [1807-1886] American diplomat and author
- Son: ¤ADAMS, John Quincy [1767-1848] American politician and statesman, 6° POTUS (2° POTUS )