John Adams was in the shadow of George Washington, and he knew it. He served one term as president. The true test of his presidency came in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty, which Washington had signed ...

John Adams lacked George Washington's impressive height and powerful physical presence. ... Along with John Jay, primary negotiator of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War; ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. ... In 1783 he, together with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, negotiated the Treaty of Paris, ...

He agreed to the Jay Treaty with Britain in 1795, which France perceived as a proclamation of hostility. ... John Adams loved to read, and he loved annotating his books.

The Treaty of Paris A revived Adams returned to Paris in 1782 to negotiate the peace treaty that would end the Revolutionary War. ... Like Adams, John Jay, the third delegate, ...

On this day in 1798, President John Adams briefed Congress on the XYZ affair, a dispute between the United States and the French Republic that led to a limited and undeclared war known as the ...

The final agreement, the Jay Treaty, maintained peace but was criticized for being too favorable to the British. ... Late in John Adams’ administration, which ended in 1801, ...

Left: American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, Founding Father of the United States, and signer of the Treaty of Paris, John Jay, circa 1785. From an original engraving by H.B. Hall. Photo by Kean ...

We also needed a way to end the war, and he got that, too, negotiating the Treaty of Paris along with John Jay and Benjamin Franklin. ... the legacy of John Adams is shining anew.

In the decades following the Jay Treaty, lions of the American Senate such as John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Randolph, Henry Clay, William Borah, and ...

Milking drama from the Jay Treaty. John Patrick Diggins, author of John Adams: The American Presidents Series, Steven Waldman, author of Founding Faith, and Kirk Ellis, writer and co-executive ...