John Adams

John Adams
Painting by Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 1881, original by Gilbert Stuart, copied by George Peter Alexander Healy, Public Domain
Born October 30, 1735 in MA
Died July 4, 1826
  • 2nd President – and 1st Vice President – of the USA.
  • Harvard-educated lawyer who once represented British soldiers.
  • Became opposed to British rule because of unfair taxation.
  • Key delegate in the Continental Congress, the governing body during the Revolutionary War.
  • Primary negotiator of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War.
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”