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dents seems to show that to them
personally it was not problem.
Some retired to their estates and
lived as gentlemen of leisure, de-
voting themselves to their private
business, and receiving nothing but
honor at the hands of their fellow
citizens. Others re-entered their
professions and others continued in
public life, says the Washington
Post.
Washington was evidently glad to
retire from public Office when his
second term as President ended, to
resume the congenial life Of gentle,
man farmer at Mount Vernon. There
he resided, occasionally, visiting
friends in Georgetown and entertain
ing Hospitality after the fashion Of
the time, and there he died, on the
18th of December, 179o, in the 9th
year of his age.
John Adams retained to "that
quiet home near the roadside in
Quincy" He was appointed a Presi-
dental elector, aGd voted for James
Monroe, and lived to see his son
President of the United States. He
died on the 4th of July, 1926.
Adams last words were: "Thomas
Jefferson still survives" AS mat
ter of fact, Jefferson had just passed
away.
Jefferson went away from the
White House to his estate of Monti-
cello, and lived there for seventeen
years, until his death, July 4, 1926.
Monroe returned to his home at
Oak Hill, in Loudan county, Va.
There he lived seven years, and then
went to New York with one of his
daughters. He, too, died on the 4th
of July, in the year 1881, just five
years from the day that John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson had expired.
ELECTED TO CONGRESS-.
John Quincy Adams retired to his
ancestral home at Quincy. Here he
occupied himself in preparing a
memoir of his father, and also pro-
jected history of the United States.
In 1880, Plymouth district proposed
sending Mr.. Adams to Congress. AT
first it was thought that an x-Presi-
dent would regard the Office as too
great a contrast with his former one.
Upon this doubt being expressed to
him, Adams replied: "No person
could be degraded by serving the
people in Congress. Nor, in my
opinion, would an ex-President of
the United States be degraded by
serving as selectman of his town, if
thereto elected" He took his seat
in Congress in 1881, having been
elected by the National Republican,
soon to be known as the Whig party.
He died February %, 1s4s, two days
after stroke of paralysis received
while in the House.
Jackson left the White House, a
man of 20, and returned to the fl Q
estate of the Hermitage, where he
spent several happy years as a
planter. He died June 8, lS45.
Van Buren, after being defeated
for second term, made an extensive
tour in Europe. He returned to
Lindenwald, his fine estate at Kinder
hook, where he died July "a, 1862.
IN CONFEDERATE CONGRESS-.
Tyler left the Executive Mansion
for his home at Sherwood Forest,
Va. lie came to Washington and
presided at the Peace Congress in
Willard Hall, which was held lust
before the Inauguration of Abraham
Lincoln He afterward became a
member of the Confederate Congress,
and died January Is, 1862.
Polk, Immediately after the expira-
zion of his Presidential incumbency,
made journey TO the far South,
where his home, beautiful mansion
ON Grundy's Hill at Nashville,
awaited him. He succumbed to
cholera June, Sth, 1910.
Two wears after tho closo of b;s