John Adair 1800 to 1803. A candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1800, he was defeated in an overwhelming 68–13 vote of the legislature by John Breckinridge, who had been the acknowledged leader of the just-concluded constitutional convention. In 1802, Adair succeeded Breckinridge as Speaker of the House by a vote of 30–14 over Elder David Purviance, the candidate preferred by Governor James Garrard. He continued to serve as Speaker for the duration of his tenure in the House. In 1802, the legislature formed Adair County, Kentucky, naming it after the popular Speaker. In January 1804, Garrard nominated Adair
John Hersey wrote Hersey. "The memory of what happened at Hiroshima". John Hersey has been called a "compulsive plagiarist." For instance, he used complete paragraphs from the James Agee biography by Laurence Bergreen in his own "New Yorker" essay about Agee. Half of his book, "Men on Bataan" came from work filed for "Time" by Melville Jacoby and his wife. A longtime resident of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts – chronicled in his 1987 work "Blues" – John Hersey died at his winter home in Key West, Florida, on March 24, 1993 at the compound he and his wife shared with his