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John Adams(1735-1826) Founding father. Second President of the coupled States, first vice-president of the U.S., member of the Continental Congress, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, helped negotiate the treaty of Paris with England in 1783.Also known as the Paris quiescence Treaty, this agreement ended the United States War for Independence, giving formal experience of the United States, and established its then-boundaries. Second President (1797-1801) John Adams devoted very much of his presidential energy to dealing with infringements on American neutrality in an Anglo-French war. He succeeded in keeping the United States from being drawn into those hostilities. He did so, however, at great cost to his popularity, and he left office face much battered and wrongly abused. Many years later, Adams observed No man who ever held the office of President would ever congratulate a friend on obtaining it. THE PARIS PEACE TREATY (PEACE TREATY of 1783) In the name of the m ost holy and undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine parsimony to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of spacious Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch- treasurer and prince elector of the Blessed Roman Empire etc., and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that amaze unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually inclination to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse , among the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony and having for this desirable end already laid the foundation of peace and reconciliation by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris on the 30th of November 1782, by the commissioners empowered on each part, which articl es were agreed to be inserted in and embed the Treaty of Peace proposed to be cogitate between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United States, but which treaty was not to be concluded until terms of peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain and France and his Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such treaty thence and the treaty between Great Britain and France having since been concluded, his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, in order to carry into full effect the Provisional Articles above mentioned, check to the tenor thereof, have constituted and appointed, that is to say his Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, Esqr.