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John Adams, Second President (23)

James Smither, after a portrait by John Singleton Copeley. John Adams President of the United States of America. Philadelphia: William Cobbett, 1797. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (23)
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John Adams, Second President 

John Adams (1735—1826), Massachusetts lawyer and revolutionary, was a leader of the independence radicals in the Continental Congress and served as the second president between 1797 and 1801. Adams’s conservative conception of the governmental form for the American republic made him an antagonist of Thomas Jefferson during Adams’s rise to the presidency.