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.

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 ...

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 ...

After serving as the nation's first vice president under George Washington, John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797. Adams wasn't fond of the vice president role.

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 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 ...

there are some who have successfully transitioned from vice president to president. John Adams, for example, was the first vice president of the U.S., serving from 1789 to 1797. During this period ...

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 ...

In 1789, John Adams became the first vice president of the U.S. under the country's first president, George Washington. This painting shows John Adams, the first and second vice president of the ...