President John Adams, Jr.

Birth	30 OCT 1735
Education	1755
Occup	1775-1779		USA Secretary of Navy
History	4 JUL 1776		Declaration of Independence Signer
Org.	1780		American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Founder
Occup	1782-1788		USA Ambassador to Netherlands
Occup	1785-1788		USA Ambassador to United Kingdom
Occup	1789-1797		USA Vice President
Election	1792		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1797-1801		USA President
Death	4 JUL 1826
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Our second president, John Adams, was a man of great intellect and was a scholar, diplomat and statesman, Adams was born a New England Congregationalist but early developed a detestation for Calvinist orthodoxy. He didn’t like emotionalism in religion and didn’t like the negative "hell and brimstone" orientation of the Calvinist preachers. During his life he moved toward Unitarianism, although it must be remembered that the early Unitarians were much more conservative by today’s standards,. They would be much more like a liberal Methodist or Congregationalist today, Unitarians of that time regarded themselves as Christians and believed in the divinity of Jesus and were much more inclined to traditional Christianity.

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