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.

Portrait of Ahmed III by John Young

Portrait of John Henry Newman, who used the conscience as evidence of the existence of God

* Portrait of Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt, 1885, grandmother of Cecilia Beaux, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pa., ExplorePAHistory. com

Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey by John Singer Sargent.

* The Fresco Portrait of Pope John Paul II by Fernando Leal Audirac

Painting titled Portrait of Young John Calvin from the collection of the Library of Geneva.

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.

* Severn's portrait paintings of himself, Keats, Edward John Trelawny and John Hamilton Reynolds kept in the National Portrait Gallery in London

* Portrait of John Crossley of Scaitcliffe kept at the Christchurch Art gallery in Christchurch, New Zealand ( use searchbar on website to look for the image )

Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton.

* An American Portrait: Composer John Adams, WGBH, radio, Boston

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

* San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary, David Sanger and John Hart, University of California Press

Portrait of John Adams

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

Image: 10thViscountKilmorey. jpg | Portrait of John Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey, ( c. 1768 ), Tate

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of W. B. Yeats, 1908

Image: John Jay at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4446. JPG | John Jay

File: John Randolph of Roanoke at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4460. JPG | Congressman John Randolph of Virginia

Portrait of Sir John Herschel by his daughter Margaret Louisa Herschel

Portrait from the school of John Closterman, circa 1702