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John Adams’s vice president was his rival, Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's presidential portrait by Rembrandt Peale from 1800. | Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. The heartfelt letter from the then ...

As vice president, John Adams cast 29 tie-breaking votes, the third most in American history, a total only bested by John C. Calhoun (31) and Kamala Harris (33).

As vice president, Adams reportedly lobbied senators on legislation he opposed, while Vice President John C. Calhoun was known as an enforcer of the Senate's written rules. The modern vice president ...

John Adams, for example, was the first vice president of the U.S., serving from 1789 to 1797. During this period, he entered the race to become the nation’s second president , taking office in 1797.

In 1793, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Daniel Webster ...

Adams wrote to neighbor Ellen Maria Brackett on Dec. 14, 1824. Hulton Archive. The autographed letter from the Founding Father and former president is clearly its most valuable artifact.