USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Receiving seventy-one electoral votes, only three more votes than his opponent, Adams won the election and assumed the presidency at the age of 61.

Detailed explanation-2: -Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), Adams won a narrow victory over Thomas Jefferson to be elected as the second president of the United States in 1796.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adams was elected president with 71 electoral votes, one more than was needed for a majority. He won by sweeping the electoral votes of New England and winning votes from several other swing states, especially the states of the Mid-Atlantic region.

Detailed explanation-4: -The second president of the United States, John Adams, was 61 years and 125 days old when he was sworn in. Adams served as president from 1797 to 1781 after defeating Thomas Jefferson in the 1796 election.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. Both were old men-Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83-and both were ill, though Adams had been in comparatively robust health until just a few months earlier and Jefferson had been ill for an extended period.