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John Adams (1735-1826) was an American statesman and the second president of the United States (1797-1801). He served as a joint peace commissioner to end the Revolutionary War and from 1785 to 1788, as the first U.S. minister to Great Britain. On his way to The Hague, via London, to meet with the King of Prussia's emissary Baron de Thulemeier, William Short met Adams, who checked the clauses of the treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Prussia and signed it.
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"John Adams," Adams Biographical Sketches, Adams Digital Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, https://www.masshist.org/adams/biographies#JA, accessed 26 August 2025.
Peter Thompson, Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), passim.
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