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Name of Wife - John Adams was married to
Abigail Smith Adams in 1764
John Adams
Family -
His son John Quincy Adams became President. Susanna Adams, John
Adam's granddaughter, lived in the White House during the last 4 months of his
term
John Adams
Education -
Harvard
Career - Lawyer, Politician, Statesman
Member of Continental Congress, 1774-78
Commissioner to France, 1778
Minister to the Netherlands, 1780
Minister to England, 1785
Vice President, 1789-97 (under Washington)
Place of Death of John Adams - July 4, 1826, in Quincy, Massachusetts
Next President:
President Thomas Jefferson
Major events in the
biography of President
John Adams
DC becomes capital, White House president's home
(1800)
Facts and History in the biography of President John Adams
Adams, as a teenager, was described by his father: "He was almost a man grown. He wasn't tall, not above five feet tall, but his shoulders were heavy. He was well knit, muscular, and quick and sure in his movements. His color was unusually high; just now his face was red from exertion, his blue eyes blazed."
He opposed the Stamp Act, served as lawyer for patriots indicted by the British, and was in the vanguard of the movement for independence.
He served as Vice President to George Washington. He
went to France as commissioner. He helped negotiate the peace treaty with Britain, and in 1785 became envoy to London.
Aged 90, Adams's death was ascribed to "merely the cessation
of the functions of a body worn out by age" but heart failure
was the probable cause of death. Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President John Adams
President Coin or President Dollar Bill
The United States has placed likenesses of the Presidents on many types of coins and
currency. John Adams does not appear
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