Person

John Adams

American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped negotiate the end of the Revolutionary War and later became the first vice president and second president of the United States.

Status: draft
Entity Type: person
Start Date: 30 Oct 1735
End Date: 4 Jul 1826

Summary

John Adams was one of the principal American diplomatic and political figures of the revolutionary generation.

Historical role

He matters here because he was one of the American commissioners who signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, helping secure formal British recognition of American independence.

Connections

Useful for linking the Revolutionary War, peace negotiations, early American statecraft, and the transition from revolutionary diplomacy to constitutional government.