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John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. His father was a farmer. Adams graduated from Harvard University in 1755, and went on to become a lawyer in Boston.
Adams was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses, and helped write the Declaration of Independence. In 1789, Adams was elected the first Vice-President of the US, serving two terms under President George Washington.
Adams was elected President in 1797, barely beating Thomas Jefferson, who became his Vice-President. John Adams was the first President to live in the White House; his family moved there in 1800.
Adams' term as President was often controversial and unpopular; he limited free speech rights, curtailed the freedom of the press, and made it diffficult to become a citizen of the USA. Adams' political party, the Federalist Party, soon disappeared.
On March 4, 1826, Adams' son John Quincy Adams became the sixth President of the USA. John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson had died earlier that same day. They were the only two signers of the Declaration of Independence that were elected President of the USA.
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