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The person with the most votes would be president and the second would become vice president. [139] Adams received 34 electoral college votes in the election, second behind Washington, who was a unanimous choice with 69 votes. As a result, Washington became the nation's first president, and Adams became its first vice president.
The presidency of John Adams, began on March 4, 1797, when John Adams was inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1801. Adams, who had served as vice president under George Washington , took office as president after winning the 1796 presidential election .
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...
Incumbent vice president John Adams of the Federalist Party defeated former secretary of state Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party. With incumbent president George Washington having refused a third term in office, the 1796 election became the first U.S. presidential election in which political parties competed for the presidency ...
Presidential elections were first held in the United States from December 15, 1788 to January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president.
Philip Haas took this daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams in 1843. First president to be the son of another president. [p] [70] First president whose father lived to see him become president. [q] [61] First president to have a foreign-born spouse. [71] First president to have a son marry at the White House. [r] [67]
On February 9, 1825, the House voted (with each state delegation casting one vote) to elect John Quincy Adams as president, ultimately giving the election to him. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Democratic-Republican Party had won six consecutive presidential elections and by 1824 was the only national political party.
Only former speaker to become president Andrew Johnson: 1843–1853 Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1937–1949 George H. W. Bush: 1967–1971 Virginia: James Madison: 1789–1797 First former representative to become president John Tyler: 1816–1821