Both Jefferson and Adams died on the 4th of July 50 years after signing the Declaration on Independence.
..add James Monroe to that list. Calvin Coolidge wad born on 4th.
One of the last things Adams said was, “Jefferson lives”, not knowing that Jefferson had died a few hours before him. Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams had headed the American mission to France during the Revolution, and were responsible for obtaining financial and ultimately naval and military assistance from her. When Adams was the first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Jefferson, who as ambassador to France, left his daughter and her nanny, Sally Hemings, with the Adamses in London, while he made arrangements to find a suitable home in Paris.
Abigail was fond of Jefferson’s daughter, but did not care for Miss Hemings. Jefferson defeated Adams in his bid for reelection in 1804, in part due to scurrilous and false reports in a Virginia newspaper secretly funded by Jefferson. (Hillary is not nearly as original as she may believe.) When Adams became aware of Jefferson’s tactics he became estranged from his old friend.
Years later, when Jefferson’s daughter died, Abigail, who wrote wonderful letters, sent him a sympathy note, which opened a correspondence and rekindled the friendship between Adams and Jefferson.
Perhaps due to cosmic karma, the journalist who besmirched Adams in 1804, was disappointed when he sought a diplomatic appointment from Jefferson. That journalist subsequently became the only contemporary source of reports of a sexual relationship between Sally Hemings and Jefferson. There is the further irony, that Sally Hemings may have been Jefferson’s wife’s half-sister.