Presidency of John Adams

The Adams Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	John Adams	1797–1801
Vice President	Thomas Jefferson	1797–1801
Secretary of State	Timothy Pickering	1797–1800
	Charles Lee	1800
	John Marshall	1800–1801
Secretary of Treasury	Oliver Wolcott, Jr.	1797–1801
	Samuel Dexter	1801
Secretary of War	James McHenry	1796–1800
	Samuel Dexter	1800–1801
Attorney General	Charles Lee	1797–1801
Secretary of the Navy	Benjamin Stoddert	1798–1801

The presidency of John Adams, began on March 4, 1797, when John Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1801. Adams, who had served as vice president under George Washington, took office as the second United States president after winning the 1796 presidential election. The only member of the Federalist Party to ever serve as president, Adams's presidency ended after a single term with his defeat in the 1800 presidential election. He was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party.

His time in office was dominated by the Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France. To respond to attacks on American shipping and a potential French invasion, Adams presided over an expansion of the army and navy, including the founding of the Department of the Navy. These increased expenditures required greater federal revenue, and Congress passed the Direct Tax of 1798. The war and its associated taxation provoked domestic unrest, and Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts in an attempt to curb opposition to the war. Over the opposition of many within his own party, including Alexander Hamilton, Adams sought peace with the French, and the Convention of 1800 brought an end to the Quasi-War in the waning days of the Adams administration. Opposition to the Quasi-War and the Alien and the Sedition Acts, as well as the intra-party rivalry with Hamilton, all contributed to Adams's loss to Jefferson in the 1800 election.

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