John Adams and John Quincy Adams were public figures who made significant contributions to the founding and expansion of the ...

then considered to be the stepping-stone to the White House. Though the election has been labeled “dirty,” the constitutional procedures for electing a president were faithfully carried out.

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...