However, with training and time, John was able to refine his skills. As a member of the Federalist Party, Adams decided to run for the presidency. He lost and became Vice-president to George ...

John Adams was born on October 30 ... he did not know how he could live out of it." In the election of 1796 Adams, a Federalist won the presidency, narrowly defeating Jefferson, a Republican ...

When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution. He read the book for the first time in 1796 ...

In 1796, that led to rivals John Adams, who was a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, serving as ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...