what year did john adams get elected president?
4/21/1789
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 In 2001 , historian David McCullough published a biography entitled John Adams , that won various awards . McCullough 's biography was the basis for a 2008 TV miniseries . 

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 With the roads becoming impassable , Lafayette stayed in Washington City for the winter of 1824 – 25 , and thus was there for the climax of the hotly contested 1824 election , in which no presidential candidate was able to secure a majority of the Electoral College , throwing the decision to the House of Representatives . On 9 February 1825 , that body selected Secretary of State John Quincy Adams as president ; that evening , the runner @-@ up , General Andrew Jackson , shook hands with Adams at the White House as Lafayette looked on . 

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 Adams did not speak French , the international language of diplomacy at the time . He therefore assumed a less visible role , but emerged as the commission 's chief administrator , imposing order and methods lacking in his delegation 's finances and record @-@ keeping affairs . His first stay in Europe , between April 1 , 1778 , and June 17 , 1779 , was otherwise unremarkable , and he returned to his home in Braintree in early August 1779 . Back home , Adams became one of the founders and charter members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780 . 

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 In 1789 , Adams was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts , and served in that office until Governor Hancock 's death in 1793 , when he became acting governor . The next year Adams was elected as governor in his own right , the first of four annual terms . He was generally regarded as the leader of his state 's Jeffersonian Republicans , who were opposed to the Federalist Party . Unlike some other Republicans , Adams supported the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 for the same reasons that he had opposed Shays 's Rebellion . Like his fellow Republicans , he spoke out against the Jay Treaty in 1796 , a position that drew criticism in a state that was increasingly Federalist . In that year 's U. S. presidential election , Republicans in Virginia cast 15 electoral votes for Adams in an effort to make him Jefferson 's vice @-@ president , but Federalist John Adams won the election , with Jefferson becoming vice @-@ president . The Adams cousins remained friends , but Samuel was pleased when Jefferson defeated John Adams in the 1800 presidential election . 

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 In 1800 , Adams lost re @-@ election to Thomas Jefferson , and retired to Massachusetts . He eventually resumed his friendship with Jefferson upon the latter 's own retirement by initiating a correspondence which lasted fourteen years . He and his wife established a family of politicians , diplomats , and historians now referred to as the Adams political family . Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams , the sixth President of the United States . He died on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence . Modern historians in the aggregate have ranked his administration favorably . 
