John Adams — 2nd President of the United States
2nd President of the United States, Federalist
John Adams
Term: Mar 4, 1797 – Mar 4, 1801
John Adams (1735–1826) was the second president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801, and one of the leading figures in the American founding era. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he was instrumental in pushing for independence and helped draft the Declaration of Independence alongside Thomas Jefferson. He also served as the first U.S. vice president under George Washington and was one of the American commissioners who negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
“If an unshaken confidence in the honor, spirit, and resources of the American people, on which I have so often hazarded my all and never been deceived … can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes, it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious injunction of the two Houses shall not be without effect.”