John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the candidates in the first contested presidential election.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Adams won.
John Quincy Adams
The major candidates were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
John Adams, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney were candidates for the federalist and Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr were candidates for the republican
Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.
I'm doing the same paper! John Adams as president, and Thomas Pinckney as vice:)
He was the second president because he won the election of 1796 by getting more votes than Thomas Jefferson and 10 other candidates.
No, John Adams had three other siblings.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both had different ideas of what they thought would be the ideal political party. :)
John Quincey Adams had many foreign encounters with other countries.
IN 1796 when Adams was elected for president, there were no vice-presidential candidates. The man who finished second in the presidential election, became the vice-president. This system was changed by the 12th amendment,