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"The vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit." --John Adams




John Adams
	2nd President of the United States	March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1801



	Born: October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts	Died: July 4, 1826, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
	Father: John Adams	Mother: Susanna Boylston Adams
	Religion: Unitarian	Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1755)
	Occupation: Lawyer	Political Party: Federalist
	Nickname: "Atlas of Independence"

Married: Abigail Smith (1744-1818), on October 25, 1764

Children: Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813); John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); Susanna Adams (1768-70); Charles Adams (1770-1800); Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832)

Adams National Historic Site

Quincy, MA

Other Government Positions:		Member of Continental Congress, 1774-78 Commissioner to France, 1778 Minister to the Netherlands, 1780 Minister to England, 1785 Vice President, 1789-97
Points of Interest:		the Adams' were the first residents of the White House Adams was one of three presidents not to attend the inauguration of his successor Adams was the great-great-grandson of John and Priscilla Alden, Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 the only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence, Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier Adams lived longer than any other president at his death. When he died he was 90 years, 247 days old

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams

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