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 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 ...

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." ...