what did john quincy adams died of?
Cerebral hemorrhage
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 In 1800 , Adams lost re @-@ election to Thomas Jefferson , and retired to Massachusetts . He eventually resumed his friendship with Jefferson upon the latter 's own retirement by initiating a correspondence which lasted fourteen years . He and his wife established a family of politicians , diplomats , and historians now referred to as the Adams political family . Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams , the sixth President of the United States . He died on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence . Modern historians in the aggregate have ranked his administration favorably . 

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 Samuel Adams is a controversial figure in American history . Disagreement about his significance and reputation began before his death and continues to the present . 

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 Taking a cue from President Washington , who declined to run for reelection in 1796 , Adams retired from politics at the end of his term as governor in 1797 . Adams suffered from what is now believed to have been essential tremor , a movement disorder that , in the final decade of his life , rendered him unable to write . He died at the age of 81 on October 2 , 1803 , and was interred at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston . Boston 's Republican newspaper , the Independent Chronicle , eulogized him as the " Father of the American Revolution " . 

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 While Adams was attending the ratifying convention , his only son , Samuel Adams , Jr . , died at just thirty @-@ seven years of age . The younger Adams had served as surgeon in the Revolutionary War , but had fallen ill and never fully recovered . The death was a stunning blow to the elder Adams . The younger Adams left his father the certificates he had earned as a soldier , giving Adams and his wife unexpected financial security in their final years . Investments in land would make them relatively wealthy by the mid @-@ 1790s , but this did not alter their frugal lifestyle . 

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 On July 4 , 1826 , the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence , Adams died at his home in Quincy , at approximately 6 : 20 PM . Jefferson died earlier the same day . Adams ' crypt lies at United First Parish Church in Quincy , Massachusetts , with his wife Abigail and son John Quincy Adams . When Adams died , his last words included an acknowledgement of his longtime friend and rival : " Thomas Jefferson survives " , though Adams was unaware that Jefferson had died several hours before . 
