Yes, John Adams was the only Federalist Party member ever elected President. He served a single term, from 1797-1801 (elected 1796). Thomas Jefferson, who founded the rival Democratic-Republican Party (originally called the Anti-Federalists in reaction to the Federalists' policies favoring a strong central government), unseated Adams in the 1800 Presidential election.
yes john adams was a federalist
John Adams
Together with President John Adams, he led the Federalists.
thomas Jefferson was a anti federalists and john Adams was a federalists
Leading Federalists included such men as: * James Madison; * Alexander Hamilton; * John Jay; and * John Adams
John Quincy Adams supported his father and the Federalists when he was young.
George Washington in 1789 and John Adams in 1796.
Adams and Marshall were both Federalists who believed in a strong central government.
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The only former U.S. President who ran as a member of the Federalist Party was John Adams.
John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Alexander Hamilton James Madison John Jay Thomas Pinckney John Adams
he passed it as a response to the criticism that he and Federalists in general were receiving from the immigrants.