re: Why revere #2?
Mostly due to his correspondence with Abigail. :-D
But: Adams was able to separate how he ruled himself -- almost pure emotion -- from how he thought a nation should be ruled: almost pure reason. The one time he lost sight of that resulted in the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he later called the greatest regret of his Presidency.
Jefferson was brilliant but, sadly, scatterbrained... or perhaps the better word is "incomplete". And his theories of governance, closer to pure democracy, IMO might have forestalled a permanent Union.
OK, so I'm a Federalist...