A mini-series about John Adams and the first years of the existence of the United States. John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a prominent figure during the first American Bourgeois Revolution, the first vice president and second president of the USA (1797 – 1801). A lawyer. Together with his wife Amigail Adams were the founders of an entire dynasty of politicians. His son John Quincy Adams became the sixth president of the Unites States in 1825.