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Electoral history of John Adams, who had served as the second president of the United States (1797–1801) and the first vice president of the United States (1789–1797). ). Prior to being president, he had diplomatic experience as the second United States envoy to France (1777–1779), the first United States minister to the Netherlands (1782–1788), and the first United States minister to ...
The presidency of John Adams, began on March 4, 1797, when John Adams was inaugurated as the second President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1801. Adams, who had served as vice president under George Washington , took office as president after winning the 1796 presidential election .
John Adams United States: 1800 United States presidential election: Thomas Jefferson: Adams placed third behind Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr. Jefferson narrowly won a contingent election in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1825–1829: John Quincy Adams United States: 1828 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson
May 12 – Adams receives a reply from Pickering that he will not resign as Secretary of State, so Adams dismisses him from the position. [40] This is the first instance of a president removing a cabinet member. [1] May 13 – Adams signs a bill establishing that the next session of Congress will be held in Washington, D.C. [1]
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.
Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 2 to December 5, 1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college, while John Adams was reelected as vice president.
(a) Votes for Federalist electors have been assigned to John Adams and votes for Democratic-Republican electors have been assigned to Thomas Jefferson. (b) Only 6 of the 16 states chose electors by any form of popular vote. (c) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions on suffrage via property ...
Andrew Jackson (left) won 7.8% more of the popular vote than elected President John Quincy Adams (right) in 1824. The 1824 presidential election , held on October 26, 1824, was the first election in American history in which the popular vote mattered, as 18 states chose presidential electors by popular vote (six states still left the choice up ...