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John Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second President of the United States, whose term lasted from 1797 to 1801. He was a major sponsor of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, and a key diplomat in the 1770s. Regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he became the founder of an important family of politicians, diplomats and historians, and his reputation has been rising in recent years. ..." |
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| 30 Oct 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts |
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| 4 Jul 1826, in Quincy, Massachusetts |
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Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"On another occasion, bitter at criticisms by William Duane's radical Jeffersonian Philadelphia Aurora, Adams had his Secretary of State pass the word of his displeasure to the US Attorney for Pennsylvania William Rawle, for not cracking down on the Aurora for seditious libel." |
The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
"That's even though a war declaration might have made him, for a time, a very popular leader who might not have lost the election of 1800. Adams hoped his epitaph would read, 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800.'" |
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