Adams was the presidential candidate of the Federalist Party and Thomas Pinckney, the Governor of South Carolina, was also running as a Federalist (at this point, the vice president was whoever came in second, so no running mates existed in the modern sense). The Federalists wanted Adams as...
Anne and I are thrilled and deeply honored to announce our third two-person exhibition at The Ansel Adams Gallery in majestic Yosemite National Park. The exhibition,Sharing the Sublime,which opened on November 10, 2023, will be on display through January 6, 2024. You can view a number of t...
In November 1800, John Adams became the first president to reside in the White House. Construction of the presidential home, which was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban, began in 1792. President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) officially named it the White House in 1901. ...
When John Adams was elected president the population of the United States was 4’900,000. The presidential election was the first contested election in the United States. When the final tabulation of votes arrived at the senate, ironically it was Adams who opened the envelope as he was Preside...
John Adams on the Hofstra Partisan Presidential Debatekiwipress
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Constitution, as the person with the second highest number of electoral votes he became America's first Vice President ("John Adams" 565). In the first contested presidential election in American history, Adams won a narrow electoral majority over Thomas Jefferson. Adams became America's second ...
John Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1735 and became a lawyer, writer, and politician for the state. He was a delegate to both of the Continental Congresses and was on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence....
From the large number of stories that series editor John Joseph Adams screened for this year’s collection, he picked the 80 best pieces to submit to editor Rebecca Roanhorse for a blind reading, so that the prestige of the venues or author bylines were not a factor. (The ones Adamsdesig...
and his son John Quincy Adams was born 32 years later, in the house on the left in the foreground. Standing only 75 feet apart, these are the two closest presidential birthplaces in the country, and they are also the two oldest surviving ones; no other presidents before William Henry Harr...