John Adams

POLITICAL PARTY
Federalist

RELIGION
Congregationalist/Unitarian

EDUCATION
Harvard A.B. 1755, A.M. 1758
Read law with James Putnam, Worcester, Massachusetts

VITALS
6 ft 2.5 in / 174 lbs

CAREER
1758-78 Practiced law in Braintree and Boston, Massachusetts
1770 Defended British Soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre
1770-74 Representative, Massachusetts Legislature
1774-78 Delegate, First & Second Continental Congress
1776 Co-drafter, signer, Declaration of Independence
1779 Delegate, drafter, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
1780-85 Minister Plenipotentiary to France & The Netherlands
1783 Negotiated Treaty of Paris
1785-88 Minister to the Court of St. James
1789-97 U.S. Vice President (Washington)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 2 - 13, 1796
Popular: Adams 35,726 (53%) Thomas Jefferson 31,115 (46%)
Electoral: Adams 71 Jefferson 68

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801)

ADMINISTRATION
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798); Judiciary Act of 1801 (Midnight Judges)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
John Marshall (Chief), Bushrod Washington, Alfred Moore

FIRST LADY
Abigail Smith (1744-1818)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1825 Election of son John Quincy Adams as 6th U.S. president

Portrait of John Adams by John Trumbull, c. 1792-93.