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The answer is John Adams (second President) and Thomas Jefferson (third President). These two men died on the same day. But that's not all; read on.... Both Adams and Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As we all know, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in committee with John Adams (and Benjamin Franklin).
Why did Adams nominate Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence?   According to a letter that John Adams wrote to his friend Timothy Pickering, Adams gave Jefferson three reasons that Jefferson should write the Declaration of Independenâ¦ce instead of Adams.