Portrait by by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1775
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BORN:
23 August 1754 in Versailles, France
DIED:
21 January 1793 in Paris
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Portrait by by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1775
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.