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In 1826, when the first two died on the same day, Daniel Webster’s eulogy spoke to a point that many people believed: that something other than coincidence was involved.

“The concurrence of their death on the anniversary of Independence has naturally awakened stronger emotions,” Webster said. “It cannot but seem striking and extraordinary, that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act, that they should complete that year, and that then, on the day which had fast linked forever their own fame with their country's glory, the heavens should open to receive them both at once.”
 
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Praefectus Praetorio said:
Tomorrow, July 4th is the Day the United States celebrates its Independence from the British Crown. It commemorates the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. (The actual legal date of independence in American law is July 2nd, when the shorter, original resolution by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia was approved by the Congress).
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.

On July 4th, three of the signers of the declaration, who later became Preident of the United States of America, died.

Can you name them without looking them up?
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Adams and Jefferson I know, but not the third.
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
Tomorrow, July 4th is the Day the United States celebrates its Independence from the British Crown. It commemorates the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. (The actual legal date of independence in American law is July 2nd, when the shorter, original resolution by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia was approved by the Congress).
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.

On July 4th, three of the signers of the declaration, who later became Preident of the United States of America, died.

Can you name them without looking them up?
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Washington, Jefferson, Adams? (Maybe not Washington, but Madison?)
 
poem21045 said:
You must be referring to Ben Franklin.
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Never President.

Jefferson and Adams died on July 4th, 1826 on the 50th anniversary. The fifth President, who fought as a soldier in the Revolution, James Monroe died five years later on July 4th, 1831 the fifty-fifth anniversary.
 
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Jollyrei said:
JOHN ADAMS WAS A BORE.
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Have you read John Adams, the biography by David McCullough? Anything but boring!

And, to cite just one example from his life, he defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, even though he was a patriot and sided with those who wanted separation from England, and even though he received severe criticism from friends and compatriots. But he was a firm believer in a fair trial and justice.

His wife may have been the most intelligent and progressive first lady ever (ok, maybe Eleanor Roosevelt. . .).
 
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