历届美国总统简介：约翰·亚当斯
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约翰·亚当斯（John Adams，1735年10月30日－1826年7月4日）是美国第一任副总统（1789年－1797年），其后接替乔治·华盛顿成为美国第二任总统（1797年－1801年）。同时，亚当斯也是第一位由总检察长带领宣誓的美国总统。[1]
他是由托马斯·杰斐逊组成的《独立宣言》起草委员会的成员，被誉为“美国独立的巨人”。由于他任职期间在内政、外交方面均无明显成就，1800年竞选总统时被托马斯·杰斐逊击败。1826年7月4日去世。 [1-2]
约翰·亚当斯是《独立宣言》签署者之一，被美国人视为最重要的开国元勋之一，同华盛顿、杰斐逊和富兰克林齐名。[3] 他的长子约翰·昆西·亚当斯后当选为美国第6任总统。[4] 被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第25名[5] 。
John Adams was the second President of the United States. He was born in Massachusetts in 1735. He studied law at Harvard and became identified with the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the peace treaty with France. He returned from Europe and was elected
Vice1 President under George Washington.
Adams served two terms as Vice President. The White House describes them as being “frustrating experiences for a man of his
vigor2, intellect, and vanity”. He complained to his wife Abigail about his
frustrations3 with his sense of a lack of power in his position. He said: "My country has in its wisdom
contrived4 for me the most
insignificant5 office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
When Adams first became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States. It disrupted trade and
shipping6 to the USA and caused fierce
rivalries7 between Americans loyal to each of the European powers. His decision to send a peace mission to France badly divided American politics and he lost the 1801 election to Thomas Jefferson.
Adams
retired8 from political life and returned to his farm. He will be remembered as being one of the key Founding Fathers of the United States and for the first U.S. politician to start a political dynasty – his son John Quincy became America’s sixth President. Adams died on July 4, 1826. His most
memorable9 words are: "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity."
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