To me John Adams seems the last man of the Right to hold the Presidential Office.
Henry Adams (John's great-grandson) wrote acutely about the great loss of meaning in modern life, the idea that in the balance more had been lost through Modernity than gained, evincing a sort of sentimental Right-ishness while he himself lived a life of late 19th Century liberalness (in the modern sense of the word).
The Old Republic did not last very long. Pretty dead by
Charles River Bridge.
Standard view of the story:
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/70/print
Justice Joseph Story's dissent:
http://courses.missouristate.edu/ftm922f/Documents/Cases/charlesrbridge--storydisnt.htmPerhaps you might ask if I miss the Old Republic? I do. Does that make me a man of the Right? Like John Adams? Very likely.