NO- - he might have if it had been necessary, but the ways things worked out he lived to a ripe old age and died from the natural infirmities of old age.
He didn't.
John Clayton Adams died in 1906.
John Adams Webster died in 1877.
John Adams Whipple died in 1891.
John Adams Harper died in 1816.
John J. Adams died in 1919.
John Jay Adams died in 1926.
John Adams Gilmer died in 1868.
John T. Adams died in 1939.
John Adams - cartographer - died in 1738.
John G. Adams died in 2003.
John Adams - educator - died in 1863.