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.

But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

Hunt's first meeting with Adams was held in March 1959.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Scott Adams said it might be the first confirmed case of an employee being fired for posting a Dilbert cartoon.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, who would be the face of the franchise the next 36 years as either coach or general manager.

Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons.

In contrast, their first six full-time coaches – Art Duncan, Adams, Ivan, Jimmy Skinner and Abel – covered a 42 – year period.

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

Washington called Adams " the most valuable of America's officials abroad ," and Nagel believes that it was at this time that Adams first came to terms with a lifetime of public service.

President James Madison appointed Adams as the first ever United States Minister to Russia in 1809 ( though Francis Dana and William Short had previously been nominated to the post, neither presented his credentials at Saint Petersburg ).

Clay's personal dislike for Jackson and the similarity of his American System to Adams ' position on tariffs and internal improvements caused him to throw his support to Adams, who was elected by the House on February 9, 1825, on the first ballot.

In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives.

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 ).

They named their first son George Washington Adams ( 1801 – 1829 ) after the first president.

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 was the first president to have his photograph taken.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

Adams ' victory shocked Jackson, who had won the most electoral and popular votes and fully expected to be elected president.

Jackson won the rest of the states, picking up 178 electoral votes to Adams ' 83 votes, and succeeded him.

Adams won their freedom, with the chance to stay in the United States or return to Africa.

In June 2003, Polgár finished tied for third with Boris Gelfand, in the Enghien-les-Bains International Tournament in France, scoring 5½ – 3½, behind Evgeny Bareev who won the tournament and GM Michael Adams.

The tournament, which was now considered by some as the most important in Europe, was won by fellow Hungarian Péter Lékó while Polgár scored 7 / 13 to tie for fourth with Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams and Kramnik.

Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

The Democratic-Republicans nominated New York's Governor Clinton to replace Federalist John Adams as vice president, but Adams won.

Sinn Féin continued its policy of refusing to sit in the Westminster Parliament even after Adams won the Belfast West constituency.

Although Adams won the presidency, Thomas Jefferson received more electoral votes than Pinckney and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral balloting.

Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the Election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives.

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.

Calhoun served four years under John Quincy Adams, and then, in 1828, won re-election as Vice President running with Andrew Jackson.

Tortorella won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's Coach of the Year.

On 16 April 1992, after eight years in court in Massachusetts, Gail Grandchamp of North Adams, Massachusetts won her battle to become a boxer, as a state Superior Court judge ruled it was illegal to deny someone a chance to box based on gender.

In 1796, Federalist Party candidate John Adams won the presidential election ; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate Thomas Jefferson, the Federalists ' opponent, became the Vice President.

A GOP candidate even won a seat on the Tensas Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, with the victory of Emmett L. Adams, Jr., in District 1 over fellow Republican Patrick Glass.

He was nominated for 45 separate awards between 2001 and 2008, and won 26 of them, including both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for John Adams.

She won an Emmy for her work on the John Adams episode " Don't Tread On Me " and was nominated for her work on another episode of the series .< ref name =" Emmy ">

According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £ 25, 000 advance ( a sum opening the song Jihad on the Gift album ) offered by the publishers to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.