John Adams, Second President

Creating the Declaration of Independence | Creating the United States Constitution | Creating the Bill of Rights

Revolution of the Mind | Battle Joined | Founded on a Set of Beliefs | Peace

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 (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.