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Adams disappeared on April 30, 1829, while on board the steamship Benjamin Franklin in Long Island Sound during passage from Boston to Washington, D.C. He was last seen at about 2 A.M., and his hat and cloak were found on deck, leading to the conclusion that he had intentionally jumped. [7]
First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama - Kindle edition by Joshua Kendall. ... George Washington Adams, committed suicide a month after the end of his presidency ...
George Washington. A popular fictionalized television drama portrayed George Washington having an episode of melancholic depression at Valley Forge. However, this was an exercise of artistic license and historical documents provide no evidence at all that George Washington was dealing any kind of mental illness then or at any other time in his ...
He is believed to have committed suicide at age 28. George Washington Adams was an American attorney and politician. He was the eldest son of U.S. president John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, and grandson of John Adams, the second President of the United States.
Depression and addiction seem to have had deep roots within the family bloodlines. In addition to his sister’s cancer and both of his brothers’ struggles with alcoholism, his eldest son, George Washington Adams, committed suicide in 1829 after suffering from the disease too.
His grandson, George Washington Adams, may have committed suicide in 1829 by jumping off a ship in Long Island Sound. Adams’s daughter Abigail died from breast cancer in 1813, having already had a breast removed without anesthesia, and his wife Abigail died in 1818.
Historians believe that he committed suicide. George Washington Adams (April 12, 1801 – April 30, 1829) was the eldest son of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. He had a troubled life and died of apparent suicide at age 28. Adams graduated from Harvard University Class of 1821 and studied law.
