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Trivia about jefferson

  • Bill Clinton's middle name, it's also the last name of another president
  • He passed away at Monticello July 4, 1826
  • After the death of this friend of his, Madison succeeded him as the rector of the University of Virginia
  • At 33 he drafted the Declaration of Independence
  • He swore he used "neither book nor pamphlet" in preparing the draft
  • The shop at Monticello sells coffee mugs adorned with his quotation "I cannot live without books"
  • The current $2 bill features him on the front
  • This U.S. president gave a 1797 talk on a fossil he thought was a primitive feline; it was really a ground sloth
  • The man he tied with 73 electoral votes in 1800
  • 2 of the closest presidential races involved this man; in 1796 he lost to John Adams & in 1800 he beat Aaron Burr
  • In the family plot at Monticello
  • This U.S. president doubled the size fo the country when he completed the Louisiana Purchase
  • Sent Lewis & Clark off to see the country
  • This U.S. president designed more than one home for himself--this is the one at Poplar Forest
  • "Twilight at Monticello"
  • Ooh la la! He fooled around with the very married Maria Cosway while he was Minister to France
  • "American Sphinx: The Character of" this founding father & president
  • Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello
  • "Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God," said this President from Virginia
  • In June 1781 British troops nearly captured this future president in Virginia, his home state
  • He left the White House in 1809, went home & never left Virginia for the remaining 17 years of his life
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the U.S. Mint in Denver, CO.) The United States Mint's Westward Journey nickel shows the word "Liberty" in this man's handwriting
  • One of 3 to do so, he was the first president to die on July 4
  • 1972:Ken Howard as this Declaration writer
  • The inscription above this man's D.C. memorial starts, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
  • Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello
  • Marshall was a cousin, friend & finally adversary of this president who raged at his pro-Federalist rulings
  • This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow
  • George Washington picked this future president to be his first Secretary of State
  • Eliminated the tax on whiskey & sent a naval expedition against the Barbary pirates
  • William & Mary College (class of 1762)
  • His 1807 Embargo Act, meant to force Britain and France to respect our economic might, wrecked the U.S. economy
  • Napoleon crowned himself emperor
  • The late Greg Giraldo on this pres.:"Cheat on your wife & cover it up for 200 years, you're... thinking you're home free"

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