Inaugurated on March 4, 1797 as the Second President of the United States under the U.S. Constitution of 1787.
John Adams , the second president of the United States, was born on October 31, 1735, in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts, originally part of Braintree. He died there on July 4, 1826. His great-grandfather, Henry Adams, had immigrated from Devonshire, England, to Massachusetts in 1636, receiving a 40-acre land grant in Braintree. John Adams was the eldest son of John Adams Sr., a selectman of Braintree and deacon of the church, and Susanna Boylston, the daughter of Peter Boylston of Brookline. Upon his fat
It was a family tradition to send the eldest son to college, so John Adams graduated from Harvard in 1755. Prior to 1773, Harvard graduates were ranked by their parents' social standing rather than academic merit, and Adams ranked fourteenth out of a class of 24. One of his classmates was John Wentworth, who later became the royal governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia. After graduation, Adams taught at a grammar school in Worcester while deciding on his future profession.