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John Adams

John Adams, 61 entering office, 1 term from March 4^th, 1797- March 4^th 1801. Political Party—Federalist. Lived October 30, 1735 to July 4, 1826 [90 – 25 yrs after office].

          A strong testament to Adam’s skill as a lawyer is that he reluctantly defended the British soldiers charged with murder in the case of the Boston Massacre of 1770 at a time when he was already on record for condemning British interference in American civil liberties. No other solicitor in Boston would take the case for fear of losing his practice. Yet Adams won an acquittal for 6 of the soldiers and a reduction of charges from first degree murder to manslaughter for the remaining two. Aside from his initial retainer, he was never paid for this, but his bid for a seat in the state legislature at the same time was successful.
          Compared to his close friend Washington, Adams might be a good example of “lesser packaging.” He wasn’t as tall and good looking as the first president, but he was a powerful statesman and diplomat. His voice was critical in promoting the Declaration of Independence, something we take for granted today. We forget that the difference between treason and patriotism is simply, “who won?” [It was Benjamin Franklin who made an amusingly timeless remark about the nature of the rebellion when he said, “We must surely now all hang together—or we shall most surely all hang separately!”] After proving himself in the Continental Congress (a delegate from Massachusetts) and later in diplomatic relations with post-revolutionary France (the French Revolution is sometimes called “the Reign of Terror”) Adams had little resistance in being elected as Washington’s vice president and later in winning his own presidency. In one of history’s many ironies, Adams was defeated for re-election by his own vice president, Thomas Jefferson.
          Aside from their remarkable individual talents, the Founding Fathers were as human as anyone could be and the peculiarities of their relationships were endless. Despite the respect and affection that Adams and Washington shared, Adams and Jefferson shared a huge literary acumen and Adams considered Washington an uneducated hillbilly. It is also curious that John Adams was about 7 years older than Thomas Jefferson; the two were close friends personally, but bitter rivals politically. They joked as to which would die first and then died within hours of each other on the 4^th of July 1826.