{"id":130447,"date":"2024-07-04T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130447"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:25:25","slug":"the-deaths-of-john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-on-july-4th-1826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130447","title":{"rendered":"The Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4th, 1826"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the deaths were announced,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83021391\/1826-07-15\/ed-1\/seq-3\/#date1=1826&amp;sort=date&amp;date2=1826&amp;searchType=advanced&amp;language=&amp;sequence=0&amp;index=2&amp;words=ADAMS+DEATH+deaths+JEFFERSON&amp;proxdistance=5&amp;state=&amp;rows=20&amp;ortext=&amp;proxtext=death+adams+jefferson+&amp;phrasetext=&amp;andtext=&amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&amp;page=1?loclr=blogser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eulogies were pronounced across the country<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045110\/1826-07-14\/ed-1\/seq-3\/#date1=1826&amp;sort=date&amp;date2=1826&amp;searchType=advanced&amp;language=&amp;sequence=0&amp;index=0&amp;words=ADAMS+DEATHS+JEFFERSON&amp;proxdistance=5&amp;state=&amp;rows=20&amp;ortext=&amp;proxtext=death+adams+jefferson+&amp;phrasetext=&amp;andtext=&amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&amp;page=1&amp;loclr=blogser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commemorations were printed in newspapers.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/daniel-webster?loclr=blogser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statesman Daniel Webster<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/06043452?loclr=blogser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eulogy for Adams and Jefferson\u00a0<\/a>spoke to the point that many people believed: That something other than coincidence was involved. Yet another odd coincidence: Exactly five years later, on July 4, 1831, former U.S. President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91068476\/1913-06-24\/ed-1\/seq-11\/#date1=1777&amp;index=3&amp;rows=20&amp;words=Adams+death+Jefferson&amp;searchType=basic&amp;sequence=0&amp;state=&amp;date2=1963&amp;proxtext=death+adams+jefferson+&amp;y=0&amp;x=0&amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&amp;page=1?loclr=blogser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Monroe died.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/headlinesandheroes\/2022\/07\/deaths-of-john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-on-july-4th\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 4th!! &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8; <br>My fav \u201cgoosebumps 7\/4 fact\u201d: <br><br>Thomas Jefferson &amp; John Adams (the 2 most influential authors of the Declaration of Independence) both died within hours of each other on 7\/4\/1826. <br><br>EXACTLY 50 years to the day of that initial 4th of July. <br><br>(pic for more)\u2026 &#x2b07;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QGgB9hrsUl\">pic.twitter.com\/QGgB9hrsUl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Scott Hanson (@ScottHanson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottHanson\/status\/1808884752587575778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the deaths were announced,\u00a0eulogies were pronounced across the country,\u00a0and\u00a0commemorations were printed in newspapers.\u00a0Statesman Daniel Webster\u2019s\u00a0eulogy for Adams and Jefferson\u00a0spoke to the point that many people believed: That something other than coincidence was involved. Yet another odd coincidence: Exactly five<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130447\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,438,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130450,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130447\/revisions\/130450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}