Guy Carleton, painted 1923
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BORN:
3 September 1724 in Strabane, Ireland
DIED:
10 November 1808 in Maidenhead in Berkshire, England
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Guy Carleton, painted 1923
The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives.
For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders
or the fathers,
and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.