WI: An early US President lives to be a supercentenarian?

Dorozhand

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What if one of the early US Presidents, by some miracle, managed to live to a ridiculously old age? What effects might this kind of thing have on US politics and society, if any?
 
What if one of the early US Presidents, by some miracle, managed to live to a ridiculously old age? What effects might this kind of thing have on US politics and society, if any?

Depends on who it is.

George Washington? Then divinely-inspired longevity.
James K Polk? Who?

Mike Turcotte
 
John Adams might be a candidate. He lived to be 90 years old until 1826, and despite being only the second president ever, even held the record for longest-lived former US President all the way up until Reagan and Ford finally beat his record just within this past decade.
 
The white ones or the black ones!:D

And this was different from every other white plantation owner of the time how?

Yes, Jefferson screwed at least one of his slaves. So did almost every other slave-owner of the time (or any time, really, it was one of the biggest perks of having slaves).
 
And this was different from every other white plantation owner of the time how?

Yes, Jefferson screwed at least one of his slaves. So did almost every other slave-owner of the time (or any time, really, it was one of the biggest perks of having slaves).

Yeah, I always found interesting, in a sense, how hard it seems to be for some societies, including the US, to accept this (as opposed to, for example, Brazil).
 
John Adams might be a candidate. He lived to be 90 years old until 1826, and despite being only the second president ever, even held the record for longest-lived former US President all the way up until Reagan and Ford finally beat his record just within this past decade.

Yeah, Adams was my thought as well. John Adams living another 10 years shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
 
Yeah, Adams was my thought as well. John Adams living another 10 years shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

But then you would lose the fact that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, possibly the most amazing coincidence in American presidential history.
 

Stolengood

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But then you would lose the fact that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, possibly the most amazing coincidence in American presidential history.
Well, then, have them BOTH live another 10 or 20 years! Throw James Madison in, as well! :D
 
There's actually a good deal of doubt that Jefferson indeed fathered Sally Hemmings' children; he was not at Monticello (or even out of the country) 9 months prior to the birth of several of the children (he was present with SH 10 or 8 months before all their births), but the probable conception dates for all of them coincided with visits from his brother, Randolph Jefferson. Randolph being the father would also be consistent with the DNA tests, which only showed that a member of the Jefferson family was the father. Of course, Jefferson's legacy, as with that of Washington, Madison, etc. all the way up to Grant is tarnished in any event by keeping slaves at all.
 
But then you would lose the fact that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, possibly the most amazing coincidence in American presidential history.

And not only that, BUT ALSO, Adams's very last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives." Jefferson had actually just died hours before him, but still.

Truth is more ASB than fiction.
 
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