Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1826
Adams and Jefferson Die
July 4, 1826
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the two men who had drafted and defended it died within hours of each other - Jefferson at Monticello, Adams at Quincy. Adams's last words, famously wrong, were "Thomas Jefferson still survives." The founders were passing; the quarrels they bequeathed were not.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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