Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Much of Adams ' youth was spent accompanying his father overseas.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

Adams House at Harvard College is named in honor of Adams and his father.

After spending some time with Jay discussing the treaty, Adams wrote home to his father, in support of the emerging treaty because he thought America should stay out of European affairs.

Adams and his father were the only U. S. presidents to serve a single term during the first 48 years of the Presidency ( 1789 – 1837 ).

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to each serve as president ( the others being George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush ).

Adams ' personality was much like that of his father, as were his political beliefs.

Adams thought his depression was due to the high expectations demanded of him by his father and mother.

When he was younger and the American Revolution was going on, his mother told her children what their father was doing, and what he was risking, and because of this Adams grew to greatly respect his father.

* 1814 – Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, father of the Confederation ( d. 1892 )

* 17-Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.

Adams won almost exactly the same states that his father had won in the election of 1800: the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Its central theme follows that it is Michael's destiny to replace his father as the head of the family, despite his determination to lead a more Americanized life with his girlfriend ( and eventual wife ) Kay Adams.

In 1872, Clark disappointed his father by leaving to study law, becoming an Articled clerk with R. P. Adams.

In 1811, Adams wrote to his father:

He was the father of Abigail Adams, father-in-law of President John Adams and grandfather of President John Quincy Adams.

Although Adams ' father approved of the match, her mother was appalled that her daughter would marry a country lawyer whose manners still reeked of the farm, but eventually she gave in.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government.

* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".

They were signed into law by President John Adams.

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In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

* 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

He was appointed by President John Adams as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805.

He did not stand for re-election in 1792, and was a presidential elector for John Adams in the 1796 election.

* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer

* 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

John Adams, who received the next highest vote total, was elected Vice President.