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John Adams remains the most misconstrued and unappreciated "great man" in American History (Ellis). The second president of the United States of America, he truly was a great man. Adams served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles during the Revolution, and helped negotiate the Treaty of Peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the court of St. James, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington both of Washington's two terms. For a man of his intellect, vanity and vigor, Adam's two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived" (white house). Adams also had a role in the Revolutionary war. He defended John Hancock, the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre, and secretly wrote anti-stamp pamphlets under a pen name. This founding father helped America to become the......

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