John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... As an antidote to his grief, Jefferson joined John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris in 1784 on a commission to negotiate commercial treaties.

When we think of Thomas Jefferson ... same day as that of his frenemy and predecessor president John Adams). “The idea is to ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to ... the same could not be said of Adams and Thomas Jefferson, then secretary of state. As early as 1791, their friendship began to erode because ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest ... Party by being the only member of the party to support President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Like his father, he had chosen policy ...