thomas jefferson

     

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the thir President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).

Trivia about thomas jefferson

  • The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave
  • He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president
  • His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851
  • The Time Almanac lists only the children from his 1772 marriage, but says there's DNA evidence of more
  • While in the VA. legislature, this 3rd president introduced his religious freedom statute
  • This president disapproved of slavery but approved of his slave Sally Hemings
  • "The Scribe of the Revolution"
  • His last will & testament left his Virginia estate Monticello to his daughter Martha
  • "Author of the Declaration of American Independence..."
  • He lost the presidency by a 71-68 electoral vote count, so he settled for the VP slot in 1796
  • In 1826, on his deathbed, he said, "This is the 4th?"
  • In 1802, after he'd been in office for a year, the first article on his involvement with Sally Hemings was published
  • William Wells Brown's "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter" is about the kids this man allegedly had with a slave
  • He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello
  • He not only designed the buildings for the University of Virginia, he also chose the faculty & curriculum
  • Robert Morris' book "Select Architecture" inspired this man's plan for Monticello
  • "I have given up newspapers... for Tacitus and Thucydides... and I find myself much the happier", said this U.S. pres.
  • He designed the writing box on which he wrote the Declaration of Independence
  • April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
  • Our fifth Secretary of State; his Secretary of State, James Madison, became president, too
  • On July 4, 1826 this former president died at age 83 after asking, "Is it the fourth?"
  • He was the first person who could put U.S. Secretary of State on his resume
  • Oddly, his tombstone mentions nothing about him being president
  • In 1804 this U.S. president hired George Hunter to explore the Red River
  • "You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other", Adams wrote him years before July 4, 1826
  • "Sally Hemings: A Novel" is a fictional account of this president & his mistress/slave
  • He's the Virginian who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (he's better-known for a declaration)
  • Contributors to the age from America included Ben Franklin & this third president
  • Our third president, for 4 years he had a Burr in his side
  • President credited with inventing the swivel chair
  • Dumas Malone won a Pulitzer Prize for his multi-volume biography of this Monticello resident
  • He authored "Notes on the State of Virginia"
  • The Louisiana Purchase, made during his term, doubled the size of the U.S.
  • Peas were a favorite of this president who grew them at Monticello
  • The "Sage of Monticello"
  • Monticello, in Virginia
  • Chronologically, the 1st of the 8 presidents whose last name ends in "son"
  • In 1805 an agricultural society gave this U.S. president a gold medal for one of his inventions
  • In 1774 this Virginian wrote the pamphlet "A Summary View of the Rights of British America"
  • This president was nicknamed "The Pen of the American Revolution"
  • John Adams had to settle for this opponent as his veep in 1796 because the 12th Amendment hadn't been passed yet
  • He was the first Virginian to serve as vice president
  • When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection
  • The "Father of the Declaration of Independence"
  • Replaced Adams in the presidency & the Indian on the nickel
  • This president's memorial with a 19-foot bronze statue was dedicated in Washington in 1943
  • This third U.S. president was the third president of the American Philosophical Society
  • This president's 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite wine sold in 1985 for over $131,000
  • In his 1805 inaugural, he said, "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some"
  • U.S. President:1801-1809
  • He called his beautiful hilltop estate Monticello, which is Italian for "little mountain"
  • In 1995 Thandie Newton was sexy slave Sally & Nick Nolte was this U.S. statesman "in Paris"
  • In a 1995 biographical epic, Nick Nolte played this future president "In Paris"
  • He began building Monticello in 1770 but it wasn't completed until after he left the presidency in 1809
  • During the last years of the revolution, he worked on his "Notes on the State of Virginia"
  • The Presidents:5. Monroe4. Madison3. This guy
  • This Virginian was the first Secretary of State & the second vice president
  • Highest price paid for any bottle of wine was $157,500 for a 1787 Chateau Lafite bearing his initials, T.J.
  • This Virginian was appointed the first Secretary of State under the new Constitution in 1789
  • "The Father of the Declaration of Independence"
  • 11 years after writing a famous declaration, he penned to Madison "a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing"
  • His plan for the University of Virginia was of an "academical village" around a "temple of knowledge"
  • Alex Hamilton wants him to be pres.; them's fighting words. I'm Aaron Burr & I approved this message
  • After the British burned down the Library of Congress in 1814, it was restocked with this man's collection
  • Palladio's architecture was a major influence on his design for Monticello
  • The presidency of this man who's on a U.S. bill is marked by the Tripolitan War & a large land purchase
  • William Safire's "Scandalmonger" exposes James Callender, who gossiped about this president & Sally Hemings
  • (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reads the clue.) This great American who used his pen to help make us independent was also the first Secretary of State
  • He hated & feared doctors so much, this tall redhead endured a permanent wrist deformity
  • This third president had siblings who were fraternal twins
  • "The Father of the University of Virginia"
  • In 1786, 10 years after writing the Declaration of Independence, his writing hand became crippled after an accident
  • He was the first president who had been a governor
  • William and Mary,1762
  • (Hi, I'm George Clinton) In 1805 New York governor George Clinton became vice president under this man
  • In the Bicentennial year, a National Gallery of Art show honored the sesquicentennial of the death of this statesman
  • "Red Fox" &"The Scribe of the Revolution"
  • 1995:Nick Nolte
  • He was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
  • In 1815 he sold his collection of more than 6,000 books to the Library of Congress for $23,950
  • In "Notes on the State of Virginia", he wrote, "Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God"
  • When ratified in 1791, the Bill of Rights was proclaimed to be in full force by this secretary of state
  • The first U.S. president we know was a violinist
  • During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased
  • In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this president's administration
  • In 1791 he wrote that "Science is my passion, and politics, my duty"
  • The man who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel was vice president under this man
  • Subpoenaed for documents in Burr's treason trial, he cited executive privilege; didn't work
  • A revolving book stand he adapted may be seen at his home, Monticello
  • He was the only member of Washington's cabinet who went on to become President
  • This president became fascinated with artist Maria Cosway in Paris while serving as minister to France
  • In 1826 James Madison succeeded this other former U.S. president as rector of the University of Virginia
  • This third president's head originally was on Washington's right then blasted away & resculpted on George's left
  • In 1801:Henry Dearborn
  • While only 2 of the 6 children from his marriage lived to maturity, he may have fathered others with Sally Hemings
  • "Big Red" could also have been the nickname of this "man of the people", seen here
  • In 2006 his image on the nickel was changed to one based on an 1800 portrait when he was vice president
  • His first inaugural address, in 1801, was also the first delivered in Washington, D.C.
  • [Former president Jimmy Carter from the Carter Center in Atlanta] This man was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
  • In 1801 this onetime VP compiled "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice" still used in the U.S. Senate
  • Replacing Franklin as Minister to France, this future president said, "I succeed him; no one can replace him"
  • In 1815 Congress purchased this ex-president's 6,000-book library for the Library of Congress
  • This memorialized president's birthday, April 13, was a legal holiday in Virginia from 1943 to 1967
  • This U.S. president's pet grizzly bears were a present from Lewis & Clark
  • [AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE]He's the subject of the following song from a 1969 Broadway musical:"He plays the violin/He tucks it right under his chin/And he bows, oh he bows/For he knows, yes he knows..."
  • ...gave way to Edmund Randolph in 1794
  • This veep lead the Democratic-Republican attacks against 1798's Alien & Sedition Acts
  • Succeeded by Aaron Burr
  • Aaron Burr
  • Stephen Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" explores the friendship of Meriwether Lewis & this president
  • He said, "Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for posterity" & at 83 designed an arboretum for UVa [the University of Virginia]
  • While minister to France, 1784-1789, this future president enjoyed Parisian culture, as well as the fine food & wine
  • Confederate general George Randolph, a grandson of this president, was born & buried at Monticello
  • In the presidential election of 1796, he finished second in the electoral vote
  • Time's July 5, 2004 cover story was "The Radical Mind of" this American Enlightenment thinker
  • Getting a taste for it while in France, this pres. is credited with bringing spaghetti to America
  • He was the first secretary of state to become president
  • He was Ben Franklin's successor as minister to France

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  • Saat berbicara mode, berenanglah mengikuti arus. Saat berbicara prinsip, tegarlah seperti batu karang -Thomas Jefferson
  • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson
  • Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Thomas Jefferson #quote
  • To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. - Thomas Jefferson
  • "A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life." Thomas Jefferson #BastilleDay
  • “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” -- Thomas Jefferson
  • “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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  • I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government...under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
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  • "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
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  • "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson
  • "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson #pjnet
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  • RT @CloydRivers: 238 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson wrote the ultimate breakup letter. You mad Britain? Merica.
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  • I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
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  • Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ― Thomas Jefferson (1786)
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  • “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." ~Thomas Jefferson. #PublikCerdas
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  • Thomas Jefferson~ The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.