John Adams, born October 30, 1735 – Double Record Album without a Double Term As POTUS

Yes, he was denied a “double term” as POTUS when he lost to Thomas Jefferson. However, we compensate by commemorating his birthday with “double albums,” (see audio below)

Arist(s) Name / Album Name / Release Date
Donna Summer | Bad Girls | 1979-04-25
Isaac Hayes | Black Moses | 2016-01-01
Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti (Remaster) | 1975-02-24
Pink Floyd | The Wall | 1979-11-30
Fleetwood Mac | Tusk (2015 Remaster) | 1979-10-12
The Rolling Stones | Exile On Main Street (2010 Re-Mastered) | 1972-05-12
Bob Dylan | Blonde On Blonde | 1966-06-20
Elton John | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Remastered) | 1973-10-05
Prince | Sign O’ The Times | 1987-03-31
Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced | 1967-05-12
Bruce Springsteen | The River | 1980-10-17
Stevie Wonder | Songs In The Key Of Life | 1976-09-28
The Beatles | The Beatles (Remastered) | 1968-11-22
The Who | Quadrophenia (Super Deluxe Edition) | 1973-10-19
Wilco | Being There | 1996-10-29
U2 | Rattle And Hum | 1988-10-10

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence……and was born October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1735. He proposed to Abigail Smith in 1762 and they married two years later. The couple had six children.

The election of 1796 was the first of its kind. It launched the multi-party system, where people could vote for their party of choice. Receiving seventy-one electoral votes, only three more votes than his opponent, Adams won the election and assumed the presidency at the age of 61. The election of 1796 was the only one in which the elected president (Adams) and vice president (Jefferson) came from different parties.

DOUBLE ALBUM MIX, Part One

Election debates focused on foreign policy—especially how closely to align with Great Britain and France; developing a strong central bank and monetary system; the role and size of the federal government; how to regulate land speculators and private investors; and the civil rights of immigrants. During the election of 1796, the Federalists quickly labeled Adams as a Francophile, giving him the perhaps unearned reputation of being more concerned with the international interests than with domestic affairs.

DOUBLE ALBUM MIX, Part Two

Adams at odds with his own Federalist Party and was often undermined by his own cabinet member, Alexander Hamilton. Adams’ characteristic aloofness and refusal to enter directly into political conflict probably cost him his reelection in 1800.

John Adams signed the unpopular Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798. These four pieces of legislation (Naturalization Act, Alien Friends Act of 1798, Alien Enemy Act of 1798, and Sedition Act of 1798)  made it harder for immigrants to become citizens as they increased residency from 5 to 14 years, and allowed those considered ‘dangerous’ to be imprisoned or deported from the US.

The election of 1800 was fiercely contested and extremely acrimonious, to the point that outgoing president John Adams refused to even shake incoming president Thomas Jefferson’s hand. The election facilitated the spread of bitter partisanship, and ushered in the demise of the Federalist party and a political realignment that effectively ended the first party system.

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse.

 However, the two men had a rematch in the election of 1800, and this campaign got ugly and desperate. Jefferson hired a journalist named James Callendar, History reports, to trash Adams’ reputation. Callendar planted false stories of Adams wanting to attack France. Adams, meanwhile, may have started rumors of Jefferson having children with his slave Sally Hemmings, Smithsonian Magazine writes, before it was reported in the press. In the end, neither Jefferson and Adams clinched a majority of electoral votes, so Congress chose the winner. As the song from Hamilton goes, Jefferson sought Alexander Hamilton’s endorsement, and he got it. Jefferson won, Adams left Washington, and the pair didn’t speak for twelve years.

SOURCE: Smithsonian, Daily.Jstor., Grunge Report