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.

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.

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.

The Massachusetts General Court elected Adams as a Federalist to the U. S. Senate soon after, and he served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party.

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

Adams served as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe from 1817 until 1825.

Adams served as the sixth President of the United States from March 4, 1825, to March 4, 1829.

In addition, each Adams served only one term as president.

He served as musical producer for a number of series for the Public Broadcasting System including the award-winning series, The Adams Chronicles in 1976 and 1977.

For a few months, he served in the Union army under Generals David Hunter and Quincy Adams Gillmore.

Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of the Rights written by John Adams and enacted in 1780 as part of the Massachusetts Constitution added the requirement that all searches must be “ reasonable ” and served as the basis for the language of the Fourth Amendment:

Peter Adams served as the first Chairman of the Anguilla Island Council.

This mansion at 6th & Market Streets served as the presidential mansion of George Washington and John Adams, 1790 – 1800.

After having served a three-month enlistment in the Army's Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Adams, Rhode Island in World War I ( rising to the rank of corporal ), he attended Oberlin College before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1920, where he refined his writing skills as a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, a literary society.

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

Tompkins ' immediate successor, John C. Calhoun served two consecutive terms but under different presidents ( John Quincy Adams in 1824 and Andrew Jackson in 1828 ), and resigned the office before completing his second term.

The depot faced two sidings that served for loading turpentine from the Adams Company still 1 block away, and pulpwood.

Adams, an engineer, served on the body for several terms before he resigned to relocate to Houston, Texas.

It was also called " Adams Corners " for landowner August H. Adams, who served as the first postmaster.

After it served for several years as the territorial capital, the territory built a new capital, named Washington, six miles ( 10 km ) to the east and also in Adams County.

Part of the old hall had a Jim Crow-era monument to the local men and women from Natchez and Adams County who served in World War I.

Charles H. Adams served as mayor from 1870 to 1872 and as Congressman from 1877 to 1879.

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

* The Boston Beer Company, under its " Samuel Adams " label, brews a seasonal Chocolate Bock, and has been brewing Double Bock since 1988.

Adams wrote, " There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation ; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.

" Adams voiced concern that a country outside of North America would attempt to occupy Cuba upon its separation from Spain.

The comic strip's popular success is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciative audience ; Adams said that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was " when the strip really started to take off.

" Regardless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris's film would be called, was popularly accepted as the main force behind getting its subject, Randall Adams, out of prison.

" Adams ' Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory ( 1810 ) looks at the fate of ancient oratory, the necessity of liberty for it to flourish, and its importance as a unifying element for a new nation of diverse cultures and beliefs.

Adams also called into question the actions of a House that would limit its own ability to debate and resolve questions internally.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

By 1809 the Federalist party had almost completely disappeared, and its former members ( such as John Quincy Adams, Madison's ambassador to Russia ) had joined Madison's Democratic-Republican party.

Adams was attracted to its pulsating and diatonic sound, which provided an underlying rhetoric on top of which he could express what he wanted in his compositions.

The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.

Houston, Texas businessman Bud Adams owned the Oilers since its inception and guided the team through the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger.

This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as Richard Adams ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into the fictional world, rather than cajoling or attempting to convince them of its reality.

Another remnant led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay formed the National Republicans in 1828 ; It held its first convention in late 1831 in Baltimore.

The party held a conference in September 1837 to discuss its situation ; one delegate was former President John Quincy Adams.

Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards Oireachtas Éireann, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly.

Over time, Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s, when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and Dáil Éireann respectively, and they advocated that Sinn Féin become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism.

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