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John Adams - 1st Vice President
Party: Federalist
Term: April 21, 1789 - March 3, 1797
Age at Inauguration: 53
Life Span: October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826 [90]
President: George Washington

  • As the first vice president John Adams had ho precident to follow and spent the majority of his time devceloping proceedures and protocal which managed to irritate members of Congress
  • Adams managed to attend and or interfere with most meetings and debates, causing some to refer to him as "His Royal Rotundy" or "His Mighty Benign Highness"
  • Adams himself didn't help matters by stating, "One useless man is a disgrace, two a law firm, three or more a Congress"
  • After the British government imposed a series of taxes on the colonies, he exclaimed, "Tea must be renounced"
  • He and his wife Abigail substituted coffee for tea immediately thereafter
  • George Washington arrived late for the first inauguration, eight days after Adams had been sworn in as vice president
  • Adams, a Federalist who believed in a strong central government, often commented on what her termed, "The lack of the electorate to make resonable decisions of government"
  • He believed the presidency should be a life term, and members of Congress should be granted seats on a hereditary system
  • He was elected the second president in 1796, but lost reelection in 1800 President John Adams