In 1788, when John Adams ... what office would suit Adams? After a month of deliberation over whether to stand for federal or state office, he decided to run for vice president.

Author and Historian Lindsay Chervinsky talked about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and how they served together in the administration. Author and Historian Lindsay Chervinsky talked about John ...

The Anti-Federalists echoed Mason’s concern, that the Vice President would be an agent of executive subversion of the legislature. John Adams intentionally signed Senate documents as “John ...

John Adams was our nation’s first Vice President. He also inaugurated the tradition of giving great quotes about how useless he and his successors felt about the job. “[T]he most insignificant ...

The country’s first vice president, John Adams, had a view of the role’s limits from the very birth of the republic. Referring to himself as “a mere Doge of Venice,” Adams called the ...

there are some who have successfully transitioned from vice president to president. John Adams, for example, was the first vice president of the U.S., serving from 1789 to 1797. During this period ...

After serving as the nation's first vice president under George Washington, John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797. Adams wasn't fond of the vice president role.

The nation's first vice president, John Adams, is said to have once described the job as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." ...