Musings of a Burbank CPA: Presidents Born and Dying on the Fourth of July

In this Independence Day celebration blog I want to talk about the United States Presidents who were either born or died on the 4th of July.

So which Presidents have been born on the 4th of July?  The only one is Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, who was born on July 4, 1872.  He was Vice President to Warren G. Harding, who won the  1920 Presidential Election, until 1923, when Harding died of a heart attack and made Coolidge President; he won the 1924 Presidential Election but only served one term before choosing not to run in 1928.  Coolidge ironically also died of a heart attack on January 5, 1933 at the age of 60.

There were three Presidents who died on the 4th of July.  James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States, won the 1816 and 1820 Presidential Elections and served two terms as President.  He was the last of the Founding Fathers to serve as President.  He died on July 4, 1831 in New York City at the age of 73.

Now we come to the strange case of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the United States. They were friends for years and both were part of the Founding Fathers.  Jefferson was Adams’ Vice President from 1797 to 1800.  

It was during this time that their different ideas of government strained their friendship.  Adams believed in a strong central government while Jefferson believed in giving more power to the individual states while having a weaker federal government.  When Adams ran for re-election in 1800, Jefferson ran against him and won, but the campaign was so slanderous that by the end they each wanted nothing to do with the other.  But after Jefferson served as President from 1801 to 1809, the two men decided to mend their friendship and expressed their admiration and respect for each other.  

On July 4, 1826, the 90 year old Adams lay dying, but just before he died his last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives.”  Little did he know that the 82 year old Jefferson had died about 5 hours earlier on the same day.  

Hope everyone has a Happy Independence Day.

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