Washington lives longer

what if George Washington didn't die of pneumonia in 1799? What if he lived past 1799, how would he be viewed today and what would he have done?
 
"That leading Federalists opposed to Adams did not consider the [no-third-term] rule absolutely binding is evident from their attempt in 1799 to persuade Washington to accept a third term..." Richard P. McCormick, *The Presidential Game: The Origins of American Presidential Politics* (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982), pp. 244-245.
https://books.google.com/books?id=tkv5ZwUFADoC&pg=PA244

No doubt it is extremely unlikely that Washington would accept--but suppose his health had been better, and the Hamiltonians had persuaded him: "General, this is different from 1796. This time only you can save the nation from the Jacobins [i.e., Jefferson]. Yes, we know you said in 1796 that you would not be a candidate again, but [anticipating TR in 1912] when a man says at breakfast in the morning, 'no thank you, I will not take any more coffee,' it does not mean that he will not take any more coffee to-morrow morning, or next week, or next month, or next year."
 
How long are we making him live?
5 years
Makes him aged 72 and dies in 1804, would George talk out against President Thomas Jefferson and his handeling of foriegn affairs, and then against Vice President Aaron Burr, who has killed Alexander Hamilton?
Would he try and talk John Adams or John Jay to run agaist him for a federalist victory?

10 years
Makes him aged 77 and dies in 1809, would George, seeing the Napoleonic war coming to an end, come to support the Coalitions?

115 years
Makes him aged 82 and dies in 1814, this would be my pick as it happens after the War of 1812, could the Americans blame his death on the Brits?

20 years
Makes him aged 87 and dies in 1819, at any point, does George, stand as Governor of Virginia? Representing his state at a personal level.

25 years
Makes him aged 92 and dies in 1824, along with Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, he goes on a tour of the 24 states in the United States.

30 years
This one is the most ASB, by making him aged 97 and dies in 1829, out both Adams and Jefferson and living going past this point would not work as a 102 year old man in 1834 is beyond ASB
 

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I would like to think that there could be some reconciliation between Washington and Jefferson, had Washington lived longer.
 
Not ASB , merely very unlikely.- George Gregory, who died in 1804, was 108 or 109 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_historical_events
I understand that in some rare circumstances it is not ASB but usually for a smoking, middle aged man, who has spent the majority of his life in stressful situations, it makes his likely hood of George becoming a centenarian becomes ASB

I would like to think that there could be some reconciliation between Washington and Jefferson, had Washington lived longer.

I believe that with George Washington alive and influencing politics, the Federalist party would not be dissolved by 1824, it would be a thriving party maybe to the mid 1860s
 
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