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John Adams(1735-1826) Founding father. Second President of the coupled States, first vice-president of the U.S., member of the Continental Congress, helped picture the Declaration of Independence, helped negotiate the treaty of Paris with England in 1783.Also known as the Paris Peace Treaty, this agreement ended the United States War for Independence, bad formal recognition of the United States, and established its then-boundaries. Second President (1797-1801) John Adams devoted much of his presidential energy to dealing with infringements on American disinterest in an Anglo-French war. He succeeded in keeping the United States from being drawn into those hostilities. He did so, however, at great cost to his popularity, and he left office spirit much battered and wrongly abused. Many years later, Adams observed No man who ever held the office of President would ever congratulate a takeoff rocket on obtaining it. THE PARIS PEACE TREATY (PEACE TREATY of 1783) In the name of the m ost holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the wagon of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of expectant Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch- treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc., and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a full and satisfactory intercourse , between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual stillness and harmony and having for this desirable end already laid the foundation of peace and reconciliation by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris on the thirtieth of November 1782, by the commissioners empowered on each part, which articles were a greed to be inserted in and constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United States, but which treaty was not to be concluded until terms of peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain and France and his Britannic majesty should be ready to conclude such treaty accordingly and the treaty between Great Britain and France having since been concluded, his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, in order to hightail it into full effect the Provisional Articles above mentioned, according to the tenor thereof, have constituted and appointed, that is to say his Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, Esqr.