Born in 1735, died in 1826; second President of the United
States; graduated from Harvard in 1755; active in opposing
the Stamp Act; elected to the Revolutionary Congress of
Massachusetts in 1774; delegate to the first and second
Continental Congresses; proposed Washington as
commander-in-chief; signed the Declaration of Independence;
commissioner to France in 1777; to the Netherlands in 1782,
to Great Britain in 1782-83, and to Prussia; minister to
England in 1785; vice-president in 1789; elected President
in 1796; unsuccessful candidate for President in 1800; his
"Life and Works" in ten volumes published in 1850-56.
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