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John Adams

The Second President • 1797-1801

John Adams

“Following in the Footsteps”


Biographical Facts

Birth: Braintree (Quincy), Massachusetts, October 30, 1735

Ancestry: English

Father: John Adams
Birth: Quincy, Massachusetts, January 28, 1691
Death: Quincy, Massachusetts, May 25, 1761
Occupation: Farmer

Mother: Susanna Boylston Adams
Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, March 5, 1709
Death: Quincy, Massachusetts, April 17, 1797

Brothers: Peter Boylston Adams (1738-1823); Elihu Adams (1741-1776)

Marriage: Weymouth, Massachusetts, October 25, 1764
Wife: Abigail Smith
Birth: Weymouth, Massachusetts , November 22, 1744
Death: Quincy, Massachusetts, October 28, 1818
Children: Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813); John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); Susanna Adams (1768-1770); Charles Adams (1770-1800); Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832)

Religious Affiliation: Unitarian

Education: Attended Private Schools; Harvard (B.A., 1755)

Occupations Before Presidency: Teacher; Lawyer

Prepresidential Offices: Member of Massachusetts legislature; Delegate to First and Second Continental Congress of Massachusetts; Member of Provincial Congress of Massachusetts; Commissioner to France; Minister to the Netherlands and England; United States Vice President

Inauguration Age: 61

Occupation After Presidency: Writer

Death: Quincy, Massachusetts, July 4, 1826

Place of Burial: First Unitarian Church, Quincy, Mass.



 
First Administration

Inauguration: March 4, 1797; Federal Hall, Philadelphia

Vice President: Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of State: Timothy Pickering; John Marshall (from June 6, 1800)

Secretary of the Treasury: Oliver Wolcott, Jr.; Samuel Dexter (from January 1, 1801)

Secretary of War: James McHenry; Samuel Dexter (from January 1, 1801)

Attorney General: Charles Lee

Postmaster General: Joseph Habersham

Secretary of the Navy: Benjamin Stoddert

Supreme Court Appointments: Bushrod Washington (1798); Alfred Moore (1799); John Marshall, Chief Justice (1801)

Congress #5 (May 15, 1797-March 3, 1799):
Senate: 20 Federalists; 12 Democratic-Republicans
House: 58 Federalists; 48 Democratic-Republicans

Congress #6 (December 2, 1799-March 3, 1801):
Senate: 19 Federalists; 13 Democratic-Republicans
House: 64 Federalists; 42 Democratic-Republicans


Election of 1796
(Each elector voted for two men)
CandidatesElectoral Vote
John Adams
(Federalist)
71
Thomas Jefferson
(Democratic-Republican)
68
Thomas Pickney
(Federalist)
59
Aaron Burr
(Democratic-Republican)
30
Samuel Adams
(Democratic-Republican)
15
Oliver Ellsworth
(Federalist)
11
Seven others22



 
 

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