John Adams (1735-1826) was the first vice-president and also the second president of the United States. He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts on October 19, 1735. His father was a farmer. John Adams entered Harvard University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1755, and went on to become a lawyer in Boston (John P Diggins, 17).
John Adams was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses from 1774 to 1775, and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He was a leader of the American Revolution and to the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional government. …