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  2. Presidency of John Adams - Wikipedia

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    The presidency of John Adams, began on March 4, 1797, when John Adams was inaugurated as the second 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 .

  3. John Adams - Wikipedia

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    John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.

  4. List of federal political scandals in the United States

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    Corrupt Bargain was a supposed bargain by John Quincy Adams with Henry Clay. (1824) [14] In the United States presidential election of 1824, in which John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives after Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes but failed to receive a majority. The matter was decided by the House of ...

  5. Corrupt bargain - Wikipedia

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    Votes in the Electoral College, 1824 The voting by the state in the House of Representatives, 1825. Note that all of Clay's states voted for Adams. After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received the majority needed of the presidential electoral votes (although Andrew Jackson had the most [1]), thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the ...

  6. Historical rankings of presidents of the United States ...

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    The first five presidents (Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe) were all Founding Fathers (also known as "framers"), and have consistently been ranked in the top 20, with Washington usually in the top three and Jefferson in the top five.

  7. XYZ Affair - Wikipedia

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    While the American diplomats were in Europe, President Adams considered his options in the event of the commission's failure. His cabinet urged that the nation's military be strengthened, including the raising of a 20,000-man army and the acquisition or construction of ships of the line for the navy.

  8. Unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United ...

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    Walworth and King were re-nominated on December 10, 1844, but both nominations were tabled on January 21, 1845. Walworth's nomination was withdrawn on February 6, 1845, and King's two days later. John M. Read was nominated on February 8, 1845, and there was a motion to consider the nomination in the Senate on January 21, 1845, but the motion ...

  9. Annapolis Convention (1786) - Wikipedia

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    The Annapolis Convention, formally titled as a Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government, was a national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 in the old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House [1] in Annapolis, Maryland (The Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution claim the location was at Mann's Tavern [2] where some of the delegates ...