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.

Category: Presidency of John Adams

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.

* Some account of the life and opinions of a fifth-monarchy-man By John Rogers, Edward Rogers, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867

* John James Audubon, The Audubon Reader ( Richard Rhodes, ed.

* Reader, John.

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

In 2008, a collection of articles from Nature was edited by John S. Partington under the title H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893 – 1946: A Reception Reader and published by Peter Lang.

* Origins: A John Zerzan Reader.

* The John McPhee Reader

* The John McPhee Reader ( collection, 1977 ) ISBN 0-374-17992-1

* The Second John McPhee Reader ( 1996 ) ISBN 0-374-52463-7

* The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century reprinted from Uncle John ’ s Bathroom Reader: World of Odd.

Most were collected in The John Collier Reader ( Knopf, 1972 ); earlier collections include a 1951 volume, the famous Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.

Note that Pictures in the Fire and The John Collier Reader contain a few stories not in any edition of Fancies and Goodnights.

* The John Collier Reader ( 1972 ) ( includes His Monkey Wife in its entirety, chapters 8 and 9 of Defy the Foul Fiend, and selected stories )

* The Best of John Collier ( 1975 ) ( paperback containing all the short items from The John Collier Reader, but without His Monkey Wife, which was issued as a separate volume )

* Neihardt ; R. Todd Wise, " Black Elk and John Neihardt ", in Black Elk Reader, edited by Clyde Holler, Syracuse University Press ( 2000 ).

In 1956, Shir-Cliff edited a humor anthology, The Wild Reader, for Ballantine, including essays, poems and satirical pieces by Robert Benchley, Art Buchwald, Tom Lehrer, John Lardner, Shepherd Mead, Ogden Nash, S. J. Perelman, Frank Sullivan, James Thurber and others.

Several leading journalists, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Walter Lippmann, former radical Max Eastman ( then roving editor at Reader ’ s Digest ), John Chamberlain ( former editorial writer for Life magazine ), Henry Hazlitt ( former financial editor of The New York Times and columnist for Newsweek ), and Felix Morley ( Pulitzer Prize-winning editor at The Washington Post ), have also been members.

* Article about John Keehan for the Chicago Reader

Northmore's work attracted the attention of William Buckland, the first Reader in Geology at the University of Oxford, who sent a party including John MacEnery to explore the caves in an attempt to find evidence that Mithras was once worshipped in the area.

* John Reader ( Reeder )

" Reviewing To's Exiled for the Chicago Reader in 2007, critic Fred Camper writes: "... like many great filmmakers — Howard Hawks, John Ford, Raoul Walsh — Hong Kong-based To makes movies that are both commercially viable and animated by a powerful artistic vision.

* John Haigh ( b 1941 ) Emeritus Reader in Mathematics, University of Sussex, UK.

Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry Hammond Harris.