{"id":5924,"date":"2026-07-04T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:58:21","slug":"monroe-adams-and-jefferson-all-died-on-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"Monroe, Adams, and Jefferson All Died on the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8219\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8219\" class=\"wp-image-8219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/John-Adams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"156\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Adams<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13491\" style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13491\" class=\"wp-image-13491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Thomas-Jefferson-portrait-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>James Monroe, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all died on the Fourth of July<\/strong>. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died hundreds of miles apart but within hours of each other in 1826, and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was made public. James Monroe died in 1831. Older children can read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/three-presidents-die-on-july-4th-just-a-coincidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coincidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12274\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12274\" class=\" wp-image-12274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/James-Monroe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"157\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Monroe<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Monroe, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all died on the Fourth of July. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died hundreds of miles apart but within hours of each other in 1826, and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was made public. James Monroe died in 1831. Older children can read more at: Coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5681,5682,543,279,5679,544],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5681","tag-5682","tag-james-monroe","tag-john-adams","tag-july-4","tag-thomas-jefferson","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26558,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/26558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}