John Adams Poem – by Christopher Rudolph
Adams our 2nd President
Won the election of 1796
His party was Federalist
A great philosopher of politics
From Braintree Massachusetts
A lawyer he became
A graduate of Harvard
He gained a lot of fame
For opposing the Stamp Act
And supporting the Patriotic Cause
At the Continental Congress
He earned delegates’ applause
He signed the Declaration
That made our country free
America was Independent
From British tyranny
He was a US Ambassador
To both England and France
Elected Vice President twice
Not just by happenstance
In Presidential election
Thomas Jefferson lost
John Adams was victorious
As President he was boss
Yet “His Rotundity” unpopular
He gravely was attacked
For signing into law
The Alien and Sedition Acts
He lost election of 1800
Served but one term as President
Losing the right to Jefferson
To be the White House resident
He retired to his home
He called it Peace Field
Gardens and orchards
Flowers and apples yield
He saw son and daughter pass
And it surely made him cry
His greatest loss was Abigail Smith
His wife in 1818 died
But he saw John Quincy rise
The election of 1824 won
He became our Sixth President
Like father now was son
Jefferson was his adversary
But in old age became friends
Maintaining correspondence
Pens making amiable amends
But in 1826
Occurred an unlikely incidence
Both died on Independence Day
Quite an unusual coincidence