In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a ... with Adams receiving 71 electoral votes and Jefferson 68. For once, Vice President Adams relished his role as president of the Senate ...

The next four years will be a very interesting time for Vance. As vice president, John Adams cast 29 tie-breaking votes, the third most in American history, a total only bested by John C.

John Adams called the vice presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Another vice president, John Nance Garner, was famously ...

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 ...

Although John Adams has been the subject of several recent ... or Hamilton) was elected vice president, he was surpassed only by George Washington. Adams endured the thankless task of finding ...

John Adams wrote the 1780 Massachusetts constitution, signed the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and served for three years in the Continental Congress, before becoming the first U.S. Vice President and ...

Significantly, John Adams did not allude to the matter when ... I am almost tempted to wish he may be chosen Vice President at the next Election for there if he could do no good, he could do ...

“My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived,” America’s first vice president, John ...