John Adams

**John Adams** was a Governor, Senator, Associate Justice, Secretary of State, and Secretary of the Treasury, President Pro Tempore, Vice President, and President of the Republic. John Adams was a leader in the Revolutionary War, and would be one of the Founding Fathers. Before the war he was a lawyer and a farmer.

## Governor

John Adams was elected as Governor of Massachusetts in an emergency session held by the State Legislature in 1791 after the death of then Governor John Hancock. Adams wouldn't waste much time, and would sign an Insurgents Law which had passed the RGM Congress, then he would order 18,000 men to arms to defend Massachusetts and the Republic during the War of 1789. He would then split Massachusetts up into 3 administrative districts, and signing many infrastructure laws. He would become less active in his later Governorships, but was seen as an overall effective leader. In 1799 he would leave office to focus on the Senate.

In 1801 following another death of a Governor, this time Increase Sumner, John Adams would be once again elected by the Legislature to take his place. He would notably support and push the 18th Amendment through the Massachusetts Legislature, which would help ratify it.

## Senator

In 1791, John Adams would enter the political sphere, after 2 years as Secretary of State, he would be nominated to the Senate by the Massachusetts Legislature. During his time in the Senate he would sponsor the Insurgents Law, a Treaty with Britain to buy trains, and a treaty to absorb the Ohio Confederacy, all of which would pass. In 1795 he had even run for President Pro Tempore, but was beaten out by fellow Federalist Henry Erler.

## Secretary of State

Nominated by President Gouverneur Morris in 1789 and serving under President John Berkman, John Adams would be the longest serving Secretary of State in the Republic's history, serving 12 years from January 20, 1789 - January 20, 1801. During his tenure he would sponsor treaties around the world, including one that would see the purchase of trains from Britain, and another which would absorb the Ohio Confederacy into the nation.

## Supreme Court

Following John Berkman's resignation from the court to become President of the Republic, there was a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Berkman would immediately nominate John Adams, and in a speedy confirmation he was put directly on the court the same day.

Adams would be in the case Erler v. Insurgents Law, especially strange as he had written the bill himself. Adams would side with the unanimous majority opinion, upholding the law.

## Secretary of the Treasury

In 1801 President George Benckendorf would nominate John Adams to the position of Secretary of the Treasury.

## Vice Presidency

In 1804 John Adams would be elected Vice President, joining 17 days early due to Carroll resigning to join the Senate. John Adams would be relatively quiet during his Vice Presidency, rarely speaking up about much, understandable as he was around 70 when he took the office. Adams would be shocked in 1807 when President Gerald Smith was dragged from his office and killed in the streets by protestors. John Adams would fill in the Presidency the same day.

## Presidency

Taking the office in 1807, John Adams would nominate a lot of Justices to the Supreme Court, many who had been killed during Dark Sunday. During his tenure the Secession Crisis would break out, Adams would be completely obliterated by the stress during all of this, at the age of 73 he would resign his position stating, "Given the discontent that my administration brought and as I see that my fellow citizens have decided to go to a civil war, I feel obliged to resign my position as President of the Republic."