query: where did thomas jefferson died?

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: that "the DNA study ... indicates a high probability that Thomas Jefferson fathered Eston Hemings". In July 2017 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced that archeological excavations at Monticello had revealed what they believe to have been Sally Hemings's quarters, adjacent to Jefferson's bedroom. It is part of their Mountaintop Project of restoration. After Thomas Jefferson's death, although not formally manumitted, Sally Hemings was allowed by Jefferson's daughter Martha to live in Charlottesville as a free woman with her two sons until her death in 1835. Some scholars maintain the evidence is insufficient to prove Jefferson's paternity conclusively. Based on DNA

title: Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson

text: on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, a plantation on a large tract of land near present-day Charlottesville, Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson (1707/08-57), was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720-76), came from a prominent Virginia family. Thomas was their third child and eldest son; he had six sisters and one surviving brother. In 1762, Jefferson graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he reportedly enjoyed studying for 15 hours then practicing violin for several more hours on a daily basis. He went on to study law under the tutelage

title: Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia)

text: Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) Thomas Jefferson is a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. In August 2017 the statue was the target of graffiti vandalism. In September 2017 the statue was the target of protest in the context of the Charlottesville historic monument controversy and the recent Unite the Right rally. Protesters accused Jefferson of being racist and a rapist. They covered the statue of Jefferson in a way similar to how the city had recently covered the "Jackson" and "Robert E. Lee" sculptures. Among the protesters was one person with

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: of Virginia, the third of ten children. He was of English, and possibly Welsh, descent and was born a British subject. His father Peter Jefferson was a planter and surveyor who died when Jefferson was fourteen; his mother was Jane Randolph. Peter Jefferson moved his family to Tuckahoe Plantation in 1745 upon the death of William Randolph, the plantation's owner and Jefferson's friend, who in his will had named him guardian of his children. The Jeffersons returned to Shadwell in 1752, where Peter died in 1757; his estate was divided between his sons Thomas and Randolph. Thomas inherited approximately of

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: Quincy, and he called the coincidence of their deaths on the nation's anniversary "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor". Shortly after Jefferson had died, attendants found a gold locket on a chain around his neck, where it had rested for more than 40 years, containing a small faded blue ribbon which tied a lock of his wife Martha's brown hair. Jefferson's remains were buried at Monticello, under a self-written epitaph: HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Jefferson died

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: of his longtime friend and rival: "Thomas Jefferson survives", unaware that Jefferson had died several hours before. In 1821, at the age of 77 Jefferson began writing his autobiography, in order to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself". He focused on the struggles and achievements he experienced until July 29, 1790, where the narrative stopped short.* He excluded his youth, emphasizing the revolutionary era. He related that his ancestors came from Wales to America in the early 17th century and settled in the western frontier of the Virginia colony, which influenced his zeal for individual and state

title: Thomas Jefferson Green

text: Texas just before it was annexed to the United States. He moved to California during the gold rush and was elected to the first California Senate in 1850. There, he sponsored the bill which created the University of California. He also became a major general in the California militia. Finally, Green returned to his native North Carolina, where he died in 1863. He was the father of Wharton Jackson Green. His great uncle was Nathaniel Macon. Thomas Jefferson Green Thomas Jefferson Green (February 14, 1802 – December 12, 1863) was an American politician who served in the legislatures of three

title: Thomas Jefferson Hubbard

text: Hubbard and other passengers were neither "wise nor virtuous" for spending their time playing backgammon and card games. When the Cayuse War began in 1847 after the Whitman massacre, Hubbard built and donated a rifle and pistol to the government. Later he moved to Yamhill County where he built a sawmill. He died on April 24, 1877. Thomas Jefferson Hubbard Thomas Jefferson Hubbard (1806 – April 24, 1877) was an Oregon pioneer and politician who was acquitted of murder charges in the first American murder trial in what is now the state of Oregon. At the trial the murder was

title: Thomas Jefferson (film)

text: did have a long-term relationship with Hemings and fathered her children. Ellis and Burstein were among those who commented publicly about their change in thinking. Many historians dispute this. The report of the Jefferson-Hemmings Commission concluded that Sally Hemmings was never a character of major importance in Thomas Jefferson's life and that there is evidence that at least seven different men could have fathered Sally Hemmings's child. As a result there is no proof that Thomas Jefferson was the father and quite a bit of other evidence that suggest another Jefferson male may have been. " Thomas Jefferson (film) Thomas

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: was overcome by fever and declined an invitation to Washington to attend an anniversary celebration of the Declaration. During the last hours of his life, he was accompanied by family members and friends. On July 4 at 12:50 p.m., Jefferson died at age 83 on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and just a few hours before the death of John Adams. When Adams died, his last words included an acknowledgement of his longtime friend and rival: "Thomas Jefferson survives", though Adams was unaware that Jefferson had died several hours before. The sitting president was Adams's son John

title: Jefferson Thomas

text: 2004, from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Columbus, Ohio. In his later years, he served on the Board of Directors for the City of Refuge Learning Academy at the First Church of God. Thomas died from pancreatic cancer in Columbus, Ohio, two weeks before his 68th birthday. He was the first of the Little Rock Nine to die. After a funeral in Columbus, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. In 1993, actor Tico Wells portrayed Thomas in the Disney Channel movie "The Ernest Green Story". Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Allison Thomas (September 19, 1942

title: Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson

text: Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson This Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson is a comprehensive list of published works about Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. Biographical and political accounts for Jefferson now span across three centuries. Up until 1851, virtually all biographical accounts for Jefferson relied on general and common knowledge gained from official records and public writings and newspapers. It wasn't until Henry S. Randall, the first historian allowed to interview Jefferson's family, giving him access to family letters and records, did biographies of Jefferson take on a more

title: Thomas Jefferson and slavery

text: Jefferson's estate. Thomas Jefferson was born into the planter class of a "slave society," as defined by the historian Ira Berlin, in which slavery was the main means of labor production and elite slaveholders were the ruling class. He was the son of Peter Jefferson, a prominent slaveholder and land speculator in Virginia, and Jane Randolph, granddaughter of English and Scots gentry. Peter Jefferson died suddenly in 1757, leaving the 14-year-old Thomas a large estate. When Jefferson turned 21, he inherited of land, 52 slaves, livestock, his father's notable library, and a gristmill. In 1768, Thomas Jefferson began to use

title: Thomas Jefferson Kaye

text: alcohol and drug dependency, and from illnesses including diabetes. His final album, "Not Alone", came out in 1992 and featured a guest line-up that included Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Steve Miller, Rick Danko, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh and Robby Krieger. He died in hospital in Warwick, New York, in 1994, after apparently taking an overdose of painkillers. Thomas Jefferson Kaye Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" Kaye (born Thomas Jefferson Kontos, 1940? – 16 September 1994) was an American record producer, singer-songwriter and musician. Described as a "legendary hipster", he worked as a songwriter and producer with a wide variety of musicians

title: Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

text: Thomas Jefferson Mayfield Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living his boyhood as an adopted member of the Choinumni (Choinumne) branch of the Yokuts tribe in the San Joaquin Valley, then rejoining the dominant Anglo-American community throughout his long adulthood. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was born in 1843, in Brazos County, Texas, the youngest of the three sons of William Mayfield and his first wife, Terissa Faller, of Hardeman County, Tennessee. By 1848, his mother had died and his father was remarried, to Maria or Mary Ann Curd. When he was

title: Thomas Jefferson Boynton

text: as his health declined. Boynton died in New York City in 1871, shortly after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor. He is buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, Ohio. Thomas Jefferson Boynton Thomas Jefferson Boynton (August 31, 1838 – May 2, 1871) was an American lawyer, journalist, and judge. Boynton was born in 1838 in Amherst, Ohio, the son of John Hancock Boynton and Huldah Heath. He was called "Jefferson" by his family and friends. Jefferson grew up in Lorain County, Ohio. His father was active in both local and state politics, serving as the Sheriff of Lorain County and

title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph

text: Sally Hemings's other children. The historian Andrew Burstein has said, "[T]he white Jefferson descendants who established the family denial in the mid-nineteenth century cast responsibility for paternity on two Jefferson nephews (children of Jefferson's sister) whose DNA was not a match. So, as far as can be reconstructed, there are no Jeffersons other than the president who had the degree of physical access to Sally Hemings that he did." Thomas Jefferson Randolph Thomas Jefferson Randolph (September 12, 1792 – October 8, 1875) of Albemarle County was a planter and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, was rector

title: Peter Jefferson

text: in 1741 or 1742, and moved there sometime before his son, Thomas, was born in 1743. His friend William Randolph, a widower, died in 1745, having appointed Jefferson as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children. That year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, returning to Shadwell in 1752, where Jefferson died in 1757. His estate was divided between his two sons, young Thomas and Randolph. Peter Jefferson's children were: Thomas Jefferson, Lucy Jefferson, and Randolph Jefferson were notable for having a number of descendants in common with the Lewis family of Virginia. Peter Jefferson and

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: the 1960s to the present. The emancipationist view, held by the various scholars at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Douglas L. Wilson, and others, maintains Jefferson was an opponent of slavery all his life, noting that he did what he could within the limited range of options available to him to undermine it, his many attempts at abolition legislation, the manner in which he provided for slaves, and his advocacy of their more humane treatment. The revisionist view, advanced by Paul Finkelman and others, criticizes Jefferson for racism, for holding slaves, and for acting contrary to his words. Jefferson never freed

title: Thomas Jefferson Ryan

text: New York in 1925. He served as counsel to the Alien Property Custodian 1925–1930. He was affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1926. He retired in 1950 to Coral Gables, Florida. He died in Miami, Florida, November 10, 1968. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, New York. Thomas Jefferson Ryan Thomas Jefferson Ryan, or Thomas J. Ryan (June 17, 1888 – November 10, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in New York City, Ryan attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York. He graduated from Fordham University in 1908

title: Jefferson Thomas

text: Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Allison Thomas (September 19, 1942 – September 5, 2010) was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1999, Thomas and the other students of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton. Jefferson Thomas, the youngest of seven children, was born in Little Rock to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Thomas. His parents named him after Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. Thomas first

title: NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222)

text: the history of NOAA and its ancestor agencies. Lacking exact locating data for the wreck, "Thomas Jefferson" held the ceremony in the general area where "Robert J. Walker" had sunk. Later in the day, "Thomas Jefferson" used multibeam sonar and sidescan sonar to identify with 80 percent certainty the exact location and identity of "Robert J. Walker"s wreck for the first time. NOAA divers confirmed the wrecks identity on 23 June 2013. NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222) NOAAS "Thomas Jefferson" (S 222) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hydrographic survey vessel in service since 2003. "Thomas Jefferson" was

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: the large numbers of slaves that worked his plantations and his famous declaration that "all men are created equal." Another point of controversy stems from the evidence that after his wife Martha died in 1782, Jefferson fathered children with Martha's half-sister, Sally Hemings, who was his slave. Despite this, presidential scholars and historians generally praise his public achievements, including his advocacy of religious freedom and tolerance in Virginia. Jefferson continues to rank highly among U.S. presidents. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743, Old Style, Julian calendar), at the family home in Shadwell in the Colony

title: Early life and career of Thomas Jefferson

text: sometime planter, and his wife. Peter and Jane married in 1739. Thomas Jefferson had little interest in and was indifferent to his ancestry; he knew only that his paternal grandfather lived. Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children. That year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, where they lived for the next seven years before returning to Shadwell in 1752. Here Thomas Jefferson recorded his earliest memory, that of being carried on a pillow by a slave during

title: Thomas Jefferson and education

text: a rule never to read translations where I can read the original."—Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1794. ME 9:280 "Indeed, no translation can be [an adequate representation of the excellences of the original]."—Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811. ME 13:14 "I have not, however, carried so far as [some] do my ideas of the importance of a hypercritical knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages. I have believed it sufficient to possess a substantial understanding of their authors."—Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:200 Jefferson was not opposed to textbooks, and believed that in most

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: in Washington, D.C. in 1943, on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. The interior of the memorial includes a statue of Jefferson and engravings of passages from his writings. Most prominent are the words inscribed around the monument near the roof: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Scholarly studies Thomas Jefferson Foundation sources Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Main page and site-search) Primary sources Web site sources Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: on the history of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, and slavery at the plantation. Its first publication, a series of six small books called the "Monticello Papers", appeared between 1923 and 1936. Other published works include "A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History, Jefferson and Science, Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect," and "Letters from the Head and Heart: Writings of Thomas Jefferson." The Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS), the scholarly hub of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, is intended to "foster Thomas Jefferson scholarship and disseminate findings through research and education". Founded in 1994 as

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: the 1780s. The Federalist/Republican split of the 1790s divided them, however, and Adams felt betrayed by Jefferson's sponsorship of partisan attacks, such as those of James Callender. Jefferson, on the other hand, was angered at Adams for his appointment of "midnight judges". The two men did not communicate directly for more than a decade after Jefferson succeeded Adams as president. A brief correspondence took place between Abigail Adams and Jefferson after Jefferson's daughter "Polly" died in 1804, in an attempt at reconciliation unknown to Adams. However, an exchange of letters resumed open hostilities between Adams and Jefferson. As early as

title: Thomas Jefferson Majors

text: He then served as a member and president of the State board of education. He died in Peru on July 11, 1932 and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Peru. Thomas Jefferson Majors Thomas Jefferson Majors (June 25, 1841 – July 11, 1932) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He was born in Libertyville, Iowa, on June 25, 1841 and attended the Nebraska state normal school. He moved to Peru, Nebraska in 1860 and entered the Union Army in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C, First Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry. He served successively

title: Thomas Jefferson Rusk

text: died of tuberculosis on April 23, 1856. Five of their seven children were still living at the time. During a special session in March 1857, he was elected president pro tempore of the United States Senate. Missing his wife and ill from a tumor at the base of his neck, Rusk committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 29, 1857. He was 53 years old. Thomas Jefferson Rusk Thomas Jefferson Rusk (December 5, 1803July 29, 1857) was an early political and military leader of the Republic of Texas, serving as its first Secretary of War as well as

title: Thomas Jefferson Chambers

text: Later, Chambers married Frances/Fanny Nolan sometime in the mid-1870s. They had 7 children together. Chambers died on May 24, 1929 at the age of 89. Here is the list of their children and some info for each. Edna Earle Chambers Cumberland Chester Chambers Theresa Chambers And Many More Thomas Jefferson Chambers Thomas Jefferson Chambers (March 22, 1840 - May 24, 1929) was a Texan politician who served in the Texas House from 1870-1873. Chambers was born on March 22, 1840 to Mary Green Allan and Landon Gore Chambers in Virginia. In 1858, Chambers married Mittie Smith. They had 5 children

title: Thomas Jefferson Chambers

text: Thomas Jefferson Chambers Thomas Jefferson Chambers (March 22, 1840 - May 24, 1929) was a Texan politician who served in the Texas House from 1870-1873. Chambers was born on March 22, 1840 to Mary Green Allan and Landon Gore Chambers in Virginia. In 1858, Chambers married Mittie Smith. They had 5 children together. Chambers enlisted as a private for the Confederates on March 17, 1862. On May 3, 1862, he was assigned to Captain Edward Bradford Pickett's Company, Third Regiment, Carter's Brigade, Texas Mounted Volunteers of the Twenty-fifth Texas Cavalry Regiment. Mittie Smith died some time in the early 1870s.

title: Thomas Jefferson Withers

text: Hammond Papers at the South Caroliniana Library, were first published by researcher Martin Duberman in 1981, and are remarkable for being rare documentary evidence of same-sex relationships in the antebellum United States. Withers died at Camden in Kershaw County, South Carolina and was interred at the Quaker Cemetery in the same city. Thomas Jefferson Withers Thomas Jefferson Withers (1804 – November 7, 1865) was an American politician from South Carolina who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Withers was born in York County, South Carolina, and served as a state court judge in 1846. He

title: Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell

text: was lite with gas. The house was burned down in the 1930s by one of his sons for the insurance money. Ramsdell retired for almost twenty years. He died in Manistee on April 22, 1917. There were several articles written the following day in the local Manistee newspaper. The editor of the News Advocate commented on Ramsdell's life in an article: Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833–1917) was an entrepreneur who lived in Manistee, Michigan. He was a Michigan State Representative in 1861 and served one term. Ramsdell was born near Plymouth in Wayne County, Michigan, on July 29,

title: Thomas Jefferson Hudson

text: not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed the practice of law in Fredonia. He served as a Regent of the State college of agriculture in 1897 and 1898. He died in Wichita, Kansas on January 4, 1923. He was interred in Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia, Kansas. Thomas Jefferson Hudson Thomas Jefferson Hudson (October 30, 1839 – January 4, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born near Jamestown, Indiana, Hudson attended Lebanon (Indiana) Academy and Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. He moved to Nodaway, Missouri, in 1854. He spent much of the Civil War on an unexplained mission in Nevada.

title: Thomas Jefferson University

text: association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A reproduction hangs in its place at Jefferson University. On June 17, 2014, Sidney Kimmel donated $110 million to Jefferson Medical College, prompting the announcement that Jefferson Medical College would be renamed Sidney Kimmel Medical College In May 2017, the university officially announced that it would merge with Philadelphia University. The University is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (TJUH) including Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, and Jefferson Methodist Hospital. Thomas Jefferson University is also the primary academic affiliate of the Jefferson Health System. Jefferson Health System was founded in

text: the move to Tuckahoe. Peter Jefferson died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter's two sons; Thomas and Randolph. Thomas inherited approximately of land, including Monticello and between 20–40 slaves. He took control of the property after he came of age at 21. On October 1, 1765, when Jefferson was 22, his oldest sister Jane died at the age of 25. He fell into a period of deep mourning, as he was already saddened by the absence of his sisters Mary, who had been married several years to Thomas Bolling, and Martha, who in July had wed

title: Thomas Jefferson Library

text: move from its downtown St. Louis location to the Thomas Jefferson Library building. On October 2, 1998, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis was formally rededicated. The Mercantile Library now resides on the first two floors of the Thomas Jefferson Library building beneath its signature glass pyramid. Source: "American Library Directory 2006-2007" University of Missouri–St. Louis Thomas Jefferson Library One University Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 Thomas Jefferson Library The Thomas Jefferson Library is the main library for the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the largest public university in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. In 1963

title: Thomas Jefferson Hubbard

text: Thomas Jefferson Hubbard Thomas Jefferson Hubbard (1806 – April 24, 1877) was an Oregon pioneer and politician who was acquitted of murder charges in the first American murder trial in what is now the state of Oregon. At the trial the murder was determined to be justifiable homicide. Thomas Hubbard was born in Kinderhook, New York, in 1806. By 1834 he had left New York and joined Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's expedition to Oregon Country where Wyeth attempted to set up a fur trading network. In September 1834, the Wyeth party reached Fort Vancouver, the Hudson's Bay Company premier station in

text: 1745, Peter assumed executorship and personal charge of Randolph's estate in Tuckahoe as well as his infant son, Thomas Mann Randolph. That year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, where they lived for the next seven years before returning to their home in Albemarle in 1752. Peter Jefferson was appointed to the colonelcy of the county, an important position at the time. After he died in 1757, his son Thomas Jefferson inherited his estate, including about 20-40 slaves. They comprised the core of his labor force when he started to build Monticello as a young man. In an 18th-century Presidential campaign,

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: Thomas Jefferson Foundation The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, originally known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, is a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation founded in 1923 to purchase and maintain Monticello, the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The Foundation's initial focus was on architectural preservation, with the goal of restoring Monticello as close to its original appearance as possible. It has since grown to include other historic and cultural pursuits and programs such as its Annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. It also publishes and provides a center for scholarship on Jefferson and his

title: Thomas Jefferson and slavery

text: his military service. He entrusted his assets to Jefferson with a will directing him to spend the American money and proceeds from his land in the U.S. to free and educate slaves, including Jefferson's, and at no cost to Jefferson. Kościuszko revised will states: "I hereby authorise my friend Thomas Jefferson to employ the whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his own or any others and giving them Liberty in my name." Kosciuszko died in 1817, but Jefferson never carried out the terms of the will: At age 77, he pleaded an inability to act as executor due to

title: Thomas Jefferson University

text: role of President and CEO for both Thomas Jefferson University and the TJUH System in an effort to unify the clinical and educational missions on campus. In March 2014, the Jefferson Health System was dissolved "in order for (TJUH) to move forward" and "be nimble and agile, but also not be constrained by a corporate relationship that in some respects put some limits on what we could do," according to Klasko. Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) is a private university in Center City and East Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Jefferson, home of the Sidney

title: Thomas Jefferson (Bitter)

text: Thomas Jefferson (Bitter) Thomas Jefferson is one of several versions of a statue of Thomas Jefferson executed by Karl Bitter. In 1911, Bitter completed a bronze statue of Jefferson that flanks the steps leading into the Cuyahoga County Courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of four statues Bitter created for the project, the others being a bronze Alexander Hamilton and two marble attic figures, John Somers and Lord Mansfield. Jefferson is portrayed wearing 18th-century clothes, sitting in a klismos chair holding "papers of state in hand." According to Ferdinand Schevill, "It is a youthful and rebellious Jefferson, author of

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: evolution. It covers not only plants that were grown at Monticello, but also plants that were cultivated elsewhere in America. Thomas Jefferson Foundation The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, originally known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, is a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation founded in 1923 to purchase and maintain Monticello, the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The Foundation's initial focus was on architectural preservation, with the goal of restoring Monticello as close to its original appearance as possible. It has since grown to include other historic and cultural pursuits and programs such as its

title: Thomas Jefferson Hotel

text: Thomas Jefferson Hotel The Thomas Jefferson Tower is a 19-story building, completed in 1929 as the 350-room Thomas Jefferson Hotel, at 1623 2nd Avenue North on the western side of downtown Birmingham, Alabama. It is also known for a tower in its roof intended to be a zeppelin mooring mast. The Thomas Jefferson Hotel was planned and developed by the Union Realty Company, headed by Henry Cobb. The company was organized in November 1925 in the office of architect David O. Whilldin, who prepared the design for the $1.5 million project. The Foster-Creighton Company of Nashville, Tennessee was selected as

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: a concubine and fathered several children with her. In 1998, a panel of researchers conducted a Y-DNA study of living descendants of Jefferson's uncle, Field, and of a descendant of Hemings's son, Eston Hemings. The results, published in the journal "Nature", showed a match with the male Jefferson line. According to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, since the results of the DNA tests were made public, most historians believe Jefferson had a relationship with Hemings and, as of 2018, "the issue is a settled historical matter". In 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) assembled a team of historians whose report concluded

title: Thomas Jefferson

text: Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. Jefferson

title: Thomas Jefferson and education

text: turn their attention to the advantages of education. I mean of education on the broad scale."—Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1814. ME 14:150 Thomas Jefferson was a pragmatic with regards to education. He emphasized the practical benefit. However, his emphasis on the practical did not restrict learning to purely career-focused pursuits; he believed that reading classic literature made a practical contribution to education, since it enhanced critical thinking and awareness of the world in general. "Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to

title: Thomas Jefferson Hogg

text: in 1862 at the age of 70. His brother John wrote a very positive obituary for "The Gentleman's Magazine". Hogg left an estate with a net worth of £17,000 (equivalent to about £ in 2019), most of which went to his daughter, but Jane was also provided for. His brother was bequeathed his collection of books. His sisters, who were by then fairly wealthy, were left only token amounts. Hogg was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, where Jane was buried beside him 22 years later. Thomas Jefferson Hogg Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a

title: Thomas Jefferson Hogg

text: family lived in a Georgian manor known as Norton House, situated outside Stockton-on-Tees. As a young man, Thomas Jefferson read many books, including "Paradise Lost", "Tristram Shandy" and the "Life of Johnson". John taught his son Greek and Latin. Every summer the family rented a house in Seaton Carew, where Thomas Jefferson often hunted, fished and went horse riding. He attended a preparatory school in Ferrybridge for four years before moving to Durham School at the age of 12, which his father and grandfather had also attended. In 1810, Hogg went up to University College, Oxford, his father's alma mater.

title: Thomas Jefferson Wood

text: member of the Indiana Senate from 1878 to 1882 and was elected as a Democrat to the 48th United States Congress. He served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885 and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. Thomas Jefferson Wood Thomas Jefferson Wood (September 30, 1844 in Athens County, Ohio - October 13, 1908) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1853, Wood moved from his place of birth to Vigo County, Indiana, with his parents; where he received his education and studied law at Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated in law from

title: Thomas Jefferson Wood

text: Thomas Jefferson Wood Thomas Jefferson Wood (September 30, 1844 in Athens County, Ohio - October 13, 1908) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1853, Wood moved from his place of birth to Vigo County, Indiana, with his parents; where he received his education and studied law at Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated in law from the University of Michigan in 1867 and began practicing law. Wood moved to Crown Point, Lake County in November 1867 and practiced law there. He served as Lake County's prosecuting attorney from 1872 to 1876. Wood was a

title: Thomas Jefferson Academy (Georgia)

text: different sports throughout the year, with an equal number for girls and boys. These include football, basketball, baseball, golf, softball, and track. Thomas Jefferson Academy also offers Jr. Beta Club, Beta Club, Yearbook Staff, FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes), Drama Club, Key Club, and literary competition. Thomas Jefferson Academy (Georgia) Thomas Jefferson Academy is a private, college preparatory school in Louisville, Georgia, United States. It offers education for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Thomas Jefferson Academy is a member of Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association (GICAA). Admission is by application and requires an entrance exam. Thomas Jefferson Academy let

title: Thomas Jefferson Academy (Georgia)

text: Thomas Jefferson Academy (Georgia) Thomas Jefferson Academy is a private, college preparatory school in Louisville, Georgia, United States. It offers education for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Thomas Jefferson Academy is a member of Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association (GICAA). Admission is by application and requires an entrance exam. Thomas Jefferson Academy let the student body vote on a mascot. The students selected a jaguar, a native South American cat. Grades one through five were housed at the former Stapleton Academy building and grades six through twelve attended classes at the former Bartow Academy. Thomas Jefferson Academy offers many

title: Thomas Jefferson Page

text: his younger cousins currently reside in Argentina, the European Union, the United States, Japan and China. Thomas Nelson Page and William Nelson Page were his younger cousins. Thomas Nelson Page served as Ambassador to Italy during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, and made it his personal mission to visit the grave of his cousin. As a summing up, the Captain has engraved on his tomb "Thomas Jefferson Page of Virginia; Captain, U.S.N. and C.S.N., Explorer, Christian Gentleman”. Thomas Jefferson Page Thomas Jefferson Page (January 4, 1808–October 23, 1899) was a United States Navy and Confederate States Navy officer. He was

title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph

text: Sally Hemings and fathered her six children. Most scholars continue to hold that view, although a minority, including the 2001 Report of the Scholars Commission and Andrew Holowchak's 2013 book "Framing a Legend", espouse a contrarian view of the Jefferson–Hemings controversy. Thomas Jefferson Randolph was the son of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph, the oldest son and the second born of their eleven children who survived. His mother was the eldest daughter, and he was the eldest grandson of United States President Thomas Jefferson. Part of the time, he grew up at Monticello and was close to

title: Thomas Jefferson (film)

text: Thomas Jefferson (film) Thomas Jefferson is a 1997 two-part American documentary film directed and produced by Ken Burns. It covers the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States. In the film Jefferson is portrayed as renaissance man. Not only was he a dedicated public servant, but was also a writer, an inventor, and a noted architect. Burns captures both the public and private person. Many noted actors read lines of various historical figures. A series of American university professors of history and political figures discussed background information. Actors included: Historians and political commentators included:

title: Thomas Jefferson (Bitter)

text: of the president on the campus in June 1913. The statue was dedicated in May 1916, having been funded by alumni, current students, and members of School District Number One's board of directors, who pledged to match the students' donation. In all $2,400 was raised for the work. It was surveyed and considered "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in December 1993. Thomas Jefferson (Bitter) Thomas Jefferson is one of several versions of a statue of Thomas Jefferson executed by Karl Bitter. In 1911, Bitter completed a bronze statue of Jefferson that flanks the steps leading

title: Thomas Jefferson University

text: Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) is a private university in Center City and East Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Jefferson, home of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, is a preeminent university delivering high-impact education in 160+ undergraduate and graduate programs to 7,800 students in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion, health, medicine, social sciences and textiles. Student-athletes compete as the Jefferson Rams in the NCAA Division II Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. In 2018, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked Jefferson 15th in the Best Regional Universities (North)

title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph

text: be active in politics after the war, Randolph served as the temporary chairman of the 1872 Democratic National Convention. The historian Henry S. Randall, in an 1868 letter to James Parton, also a historian, wrote that "The 'Dusky Sally Story'--the story that Mr. Jefferson kept one of his slaves, (Sally Hemings) as his mistress and had children by her, was once extensively believed by respectable men..." According to Randall, after Thomas Jefferson had died, his oldest grandson Randolph talked with the historian and personally noted the strong resemblance of the Hemings' children to his grandfather, their master. Randall recounted that

title: Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania)

text: James Mirabella of Steubenville, Ohio, originally from West Virginia. The band was featured as the WPXI Band of the week in 1998. The band was also featured at the half time show of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens AFC divisional playoff in 2011. The theater program is also highly lauded, winning Gene Kelly Awards in 1993 and 1995. Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania) Thomas Jefferson High School is an American public secondary school located in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the West Jefferson Hills School District which includes West Elizabeth, Jefferson Hills and Pleasant

text: Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania) Thomas Jefferson High School is an American public secondary school located in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the West Jefferson Hills School District which includes West Elizabeth, Jefferson Hills and Pleasant Hills. These communities have a combined population of 15,000. It is a suburban high school located nine miles southeast of Pittsburgh. the school district is designing a new building for the school. It will be a red brick building modeled off of Monticello, with an initial estimated cost of $100 million. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the name was changed when Robert H. Smith endowed the Center in 2004. The ICJS hosts fellowships, international scholarly conferences, courses and seminars, and internships and also issues Jefferson-related publications. The ICJS is made up of several departments which are individually responsible for the Jefferson Library, archaeology, research, publications, adult enrichment, and the editorial department of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series". The Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants was established in 1986 and is concerned with the collection, preservation, and distribution of historic plant varieties and the study of their origins and

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: approached by Princeton University to assist with The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, a project aimed at publishing the complete public and private papers of Thomas Jefferson. The Foundation assumed the responsibility for the Retirement Series, which covers papers composed or received by Jefferson beginning at the end of his presidency on 4 March 1809 and concluding with his death on 4 July 1826. In 2004 the Retirement Series launched a second project, Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters, a freely accessible collection of digital correspondence by, to, and between members of Jefferson's extensive family, excluding those to and from Jefferson himself,

title: Thomas Jefferson Boynton

text: Thomas Jefferson Boynton Thomas Jefferson Boynton (August 31, 1838 – May 2, 1871) was an American lawyer, journalist, and judge. Boynton was born in 1838 in Amherst, Ohio, the son of John Hancock Boynton and Huldah Heath. He was called "Jefferson" by his family and friends. Jefferson grew up in Lorain County, Ohio. His father was active in both local and state politics, serving as the Sheriff of Lorain County and later the Mayor of Elyria, Ohio. Jefferson read law in 1858 and was in private practice in Saint Joseph, Missouri, from 1858 to 1861. Boynton was a correspondent for

title: Peter Jefferson

text: his family moved from Shadwell to Tuckahoe Plantation in Goochland County in 1745, where Thomas Jefferson first attended school. Jefferson was made one of the first officers of the newly created Albemarle County (formerly northern Goochland County) in 1745. Later in that same year, he was made guardian over the children of William Randolph, his wife's cousin who had recently died. Jefferson was a cartographer and surveyor. In 1746, he and Thomas Lewis ran the famous "Fairfax Line"—a surveyor's line between the headwaters of the Rappahannock and North Branch Potomac Rivers—which established the limits of the "Northern Neck land grant"

title: Lucy Jefferson Lewis

text: to join him in a suicide pact, but died almost by accident while preparing, and Isham did not go through with it. Held as an accessory in his brother's suicide while it was investigated, Isham escaped from jail and disappeared. The murder of the slave and suicide by Lilburne brought the entire family into disrepute. Lucy Jefferson Lewis Lucy Jefferson Lewis, née Lucy Jefferson (October 10, 1752 – 1811) was a younger sister of United States President Thomas Jefferson and the wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis. Born in Albemarle County, Virginia, she was the eighth of Peter Jefferson and Jane

title: Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy

text: preparation. AVID students also engage in regular tutorials, college preparation sessions and trips, career readiness experiences, and other activities to support their academic and personal growth. Participation in the AVID program is by application only. Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy offers five studio programs in the arts. These include: Graduation requirements for students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy include: The Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy website offers more details about graduation requirements and course sequence. Each studio program at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy requires an audition and entry interview. Requirements include the following: Audio and Visual Media. Students create a short video

title: Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson

text: in the summer of 1787; however, he was kept informed of the proceedings to draft a new national constitution and later advocated for including a bill of rights and presidential term limits. Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson This Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson is a comprehensive list of published works about Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. Biographical and political accounts for Jefferson now span across three centuries. Up until 1851, virtually all biographical accounts for Jefferson relied on general and common knowledge gained from official records and public writings

title: The Thomas Jefferson Hour

text: The Thomas Jefferson Hour The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a syndicated public radio program and podcast produced in Bismarck, North Dakota. It features author-historian Clay S. Jenkinson in a first-person portrayal of Thomas Jefferson, the third US President, and is co-hosted by David Swenson. Jenkinson remains in-character as Jefferson throughout the first half of the program, delivering monologues and answering listener questions regarding Jefferson's personal and political life and the history of early America. The character of Jefferson generally confines his discussion to matters of history, politics, and philosophy as indirect context for modern times, but at times provides a

title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph

text: Thomas Jefferson Randolph Thomas Jefferson Randolph (September 12, 1792 – October 8, 1875) of Albemarle County was a planter and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, was rector of the University of Virginia, and was a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was notable as the oldest grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. He helped manage Monticello near the end of his grandfather's life and was executor of his estate. Since the late 20th century, Randolph has been notable for having been shown to give false information in telling the historian Henry Randall

title: Thomas Jefferson Kaye

text: Thomas Jefferson Kaye Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" Kaye (born Thomas Jefferson Kontos, 1940? – 16 September 1994) was an American record producer, singer-songwriter and musician. Described as a "legendary hipster", he worked as a songwriter and producer with a wide variety of musicians including The Shirelles, Loudon Wainwright III, and Gene Clark, and also recorded solo albums. He claimed to have been born in North Dakota in 1940, though some sources suggest a date around 1942. By 1956, when known as Tommy Kontos, he started a vocal group, The Blaretones, in New York City, before forming a new group, the Rock-Abouts,

title: Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

text: was able to release "Tailholt Tales" as the “complete Mayfield” text. However, current editions rely upon the 1928 book as closer to Thomas Jefferson Mayfield’s own understanding of his life as someone once fully native and thereafter part of a culture hostile to traditional ways of life. His oral memoir records a world that was already rapidly vanishing when he encountered it, for by his estimate the Choinumni numbered three hundred in 1850 but no more than forty after 1862. Thomas Jefferson Mayfield Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living

title: Thomas Jefferson University

text: 1995 when Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Main Line Health System signed an agreement establishing a new, nonprofit, corporate entity known as the Jefferson Health System. The agreement brought together the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. and Main Line Health under one corporate parent. Since then, other established networks have joined Jefferson Health System as founding members, which at one point included the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Frankford Health Care System (now Aria Health), Main Line Health and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. On June 20, 2013 the board of directors for both organizations announced that Stephen Klasko would assume the

title: Thomas Jefferson (musician)

text: Jefferson "one of the finest trumpeters in New Orleans during the 1950s and 60s." Thomas Jefferson (musician) Thomas Jefferson (born June 20, 1920, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong. Jefferson played drums and French horn while young before switching to trumpet. He played with Papa Celestin's orchestra in 1936, as well as with New Orleans jazz musicians such as Sidney Desvigne and Jump Jackson. In the 1950s, he worked with Johnny St. Cyr, Santo Pecora, and George Lewis. He recorded sparingly as a leader; sessions include an album for Southland Records

title: Martha Jefferson

text: her death, she was 33; he was 39. Martha Jefferson Martha Skelton Jefferson (; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson. She was a widow at her second wedding, as her first husband had died young. When her second husband, Jefferson, was Governor of Virginia, she served as First Lady of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. She died in 1782, well before her husband Thomas Jefferson's presidential term from 1801 to 1809. She also died before the United States Constitution was adopted. The Jeffersons had six children, but only two daughters survived to adulthood,

title: Martha Jefferson

text: Martha Jefferson Martha Skelton Jefferson (; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson. She was a widow at her second wedding, as her first husband had died young. When her second husband, Jefferson, was Governor of Virginia, she served as First Lady of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. She died in 1782, well before her husband Thomas Jefferson's presidential term from 1801 to 1809. She also died before the United States Constitution was adopted. The Jeffersons had six children, but only two daughters survived to adulthood, and only one past the age of 25.

title: Religious views of Thomas Jefferson

text: pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin." Jefferson expressed general agreement with Unitarianism, which, like Deism, rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. Jefferson never joined a Unitarian church, but he did attend Unitarian services while in Philadelphia. His friend Joseph Priestley was the minister. Jefferson corresponded on religious matters with numerous Unitarians, among them Jared Sparks (Unitarian minister, historian and president of Harvard), Thomas Cooper, Benjamin Waterhouse and John Adams. In an 1822 letter to Benjamin Waterhouse he wrote, "I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry

title: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

text: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is a multi-volume scholarly edition devoted to the publication of the public and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The project, established at Princeton University, is the definitive edition of documents written by or to Jefferson. Work on the series began in 1944 and was undertaken solely at Princeton until 1998, when responsibility for editing documents from Jefferson's post-presidential retirement years, 1809 until 1826, shifted to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. This enabled work to progress simultaneously on two different periods of Jefferson's

title: Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy

text: Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy is a public high school in Elizabeth in Union County, New Jersey, United States, specializing in the visual, performing, and media arts. Located in historic Midtown, the school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Elizabeth Public Schools. Located across the street from Elizabeth's City Hall and the monuments of Winfield Scott Park, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy is the oldest building of all the Elizabeth Public Schools high school academies. Jefferson Arts was first built in 1928 as an all-boys high school and named for the primary author

title: Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson

text: father, Peter Jefferson (1707/08-57), was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720-76), came from a prominent Virginia family. Thomas was their third child and eldest son; he had six sisters and one surviving brother. In 1762, Jefferson graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he reportedly enjoyed studying for 15 hours then practicing violin for several more hours on a daily basis. He went on to study law under the tutelage of a respected Virginia attorney (there were no official law schools in America at the time), and began working

title: The Thomas Jefferson Hour

text: the program, however. Jenkinson moved back to North Dakota in 2005, and introduced himself at Swenson's Makoché Recording Studios. Swenson agreed to co-host the program for a few transitional weeks, but has now been the "semi-permanent guest host" for . The Thomas Jefferson Hour The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a syndicated public radio program and podcast produced in Bismarck, North Dakota. It features author-historian Clay S. Jenkinson in a first-person portrayal of Thomas Jefferson, the third US President, and is co-hosted by David Swenson. Jenkinson remains in-character as Jefferson throughout the first half of the program, delivering monologues and answering

title: Thomas Jefferson and education

text: the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion a religion of peace, reason, and morality."—Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1822. ME 15:405 Thomas Jefferson and education Thomas Jefferson's involvement with and support of education is best known through his founding of the University of Virginia, which he established in 1819 as a secular institution after he left the presidency of the United States. Jefferson believed that libraries and books were so integral to individual and institutional education that he designed the university around its library. In 1779 in

title: Thomas Jefferson and slavery

text: proposal. He proposed gradually freeing slaves after the age of 45 (when they would have repaid their owner's investment) and resettling them in Africa. (This proposal did not acknowledge how difficult it would be for freedmen to be settled in another country and environment after age 45.) Jefferson's plan envisioned a whites-only society without any blacks. Concerning Jefferson and race, author Annette Gordon-Reed stated the following: Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson for whom the issue of race loomed largest. In the roles of slaveholder, public official and family man, the relationship between blacks and whites was

title: Thomas Jefferson and slavery

text: to "walk away" in 1822, and freed five more in his will, but 130 slaves were sold from Monticello in 1827 after his death. Some historians have claimed that, as a Representative to the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson wrote an amendment or bill that would abolish slavery. But according to Finkelman, "he never did propose this plan" and "Jefferson refused to propose either a gradual emancipation scheme or a bill to allow individual masters to free their slaves." He refused to add gradual emancipation as an amendment when others asked him to; he said, "better that this should be kept

title: Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

text: Presidency of Thomas Jefferson The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when he was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. Jefferson assumed the office after defeating incumbent President John Adams in the 1800 presidential election. The election was a realigning election in which the Democratic-Republican Party swept the Federalist Party out of power, ushering in a generation of Democratic-Republican dominance in American politics. After serving two terms, Jefferson was succeeded by Secretary of State James Madison, also of the Democratic-Republican Party. Jefferson took office determined to roll back

title: Thomas Jefferson Lilly

text: his death in 1956 in Sweet Springs, West Virginia. He is buried in Restwood Memorial Cemetery, Hinton, West Virginia. Thomas married Roxie May Lilly (1882-1983) and had 4 sons and 5 daughters. Thomas Jefferson Lilly Thomas Jefferson Lilly (June 3, 1878 – April 2, 1956) represented West Virginia in the Sixty-eighth United States Congress. He was the son of Joseph L Lilly and Martha Jane Cox. Thomas Lilly had a long career of service for his community and country. He was born in Dunns, West Virginia in Mercer County and began teaching in the rural schools of Mercer County while

title: Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School

text: Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School is an independent, private school in Joplin, Missouri, USA. Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School opened in August 1993 with grades Pre-School-9 and 185 students. The school's first Upper School graduating class was the Class of 1997, and the school has graduated 23 classes, with more than 350 graduates. The school's liberal arts program prepares students well for college and life, and more than 99% of graduates have matriculated to colleges or universities following graduation. Thomas Jefferson graduates have matriculated to a wide range of colleges and universities including some of

title: NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222)

text: was commissioned into the NOAA Atlantic Fleet as NOAAS "Thomas Jefferson" (S 222) on July 8, 2003 at Norfolk, Virginia, as a replacement for the NOAA survey ship NOAAS "Whiting" (S 329). "Thomas Jefferson"s home port is Norfolk. "Thomas Jefferson" is designed to collect hydrographic data from depths of between 10 meters (33 feet) and 4,000 meters (13,123 feet). She has of laboratory space and of scientific storage space. She carries Global Positioning System and Loran-C receivers and a computerized data-collection system. She has a roll stabilization tank and a collision avoidance system. "Thomas Jefferson" has of deck working space.

title: Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax

text: the quote during a 2012 television interview. The quote has also been attributed to Jefferson in print newspapers, such as "Detroit Free Press" and newspapers in British Columbia and India, and Internet image macros featuring the quote. Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax The Thomas Jefferson hemp smoking hoax concerns a quote misattributed to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson: Although he may have "raised" hemp, according to reliable sources, Jefferson was not the source of the phrase, which is in fact a modern invention. It reportedly appeared as an Internet hoax in 2008 and was first printed in 2013, and has been

title: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

text: journalist and biographer Jon Meacham also praised the Jefferson Papers, calling it "one of the most formidable and significant scholarly undertakings in American life". The Papers of Thomas Jefferson The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is a multi-volume scholarly edition devoted to the publication of the public and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The project, established at Princeton University, is the definitive edition of documents written by or to Jefferson. Work on the series began in 1944 and was undertaken solely at Princeton until 1998, when responsibility for editing documents from Jefferson's post-presidential retirement

title: First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

text: Baltimore. This was the first time an outgoing President would not attend his successor's inauguration. First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1801. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Thomas Jefferson as President and only four-year term of Aaron Burr as Vice President. Jefferson was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Jefferson was the nation's second Vice President under President John Adams, and ran against him as a Democratic-Republican in the 1800 presidential election

title: First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

text: First inauguration of Thomas Jefferson The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1801. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Thomas Jefferson as President and only four-year term of Aaron Burr as Vice President. Jefferson was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Jefferson was the nation's second Vice President under President John Adams, and ran against him as a Democratic-Republican in the 1800 presidential election with rival Aaron Burr. Back in those times, the person who came in first would

title: Thomas Jefferson University

text: one of the first in the nation affiliated with a medical school, opened in 1877, and a school for nurses began in 1891. The Medical College became Thomas Jefferson University on July 1, 1969. As an academic health care center, Jefferson is currently involved in education, medical research, and patient care. Jefferson Medical College is the 9th oldest American medical school that is in existence today. In January 2007, the university sold Thomas Eakins' painting "The Gross Clinic", which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $68 million, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in

title: Thomas Jefferson Foundation

text: era. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation was launched in 1923 as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. It named Stuart G. Gibboney as its first president on April 28, 1923, shortly after the Foundation's inauguration earlier that month in New York City. The Foundation's constitution had two primary goals: Monticello had a contract purchase price of $500,000, the first $100,000 of which the Foundation paid by December 1923 to the property's prior owner, Jefferson Monroe Levy. This initial payment was a landmark for the Foundation, as the transaction allowed it to assume the title to Monticello. The Foundation also sought to raise

title: Thomas Jefferson (musician)

text: Thomas Jefferson (musician) Thomas Jefferson (born June 20, 1920, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong. Jefferson played drums and French horn while young before switching to trumpet. He played with Papa Celestin's orchestra in 1936, as well as with New Orleans jazz musicians such as Sidney Desvigne and Jump Jackson. In the 1950s, he worked with Johnny St. Cyr, Santo Pecora, and George Lewis. He recorded sparingly as a leader; sessions include an album for Southland Records in 1960 and one for Storyville Records in 1974. Jazz critic Scott Yanow called

title: Randolph Jefferson

text: Randolph Jefferson Randolph Jefferson (October 1, 1755 – August 7, 1815) was the younger brother of Thomas Jefferson and a planter. He was Thomas' only brother to survive infancy. He was a twin to Anna Scott Jefferson, Thomas' youngest sister. Randolph and Anna were 12 years younger than Thomas. He married his first cousin, Anne Lewis, on 30 July 1781 in Albemarle County. They had five sons and a daughter who survived. They resided at Snowden in Buckingham County. Anne died some time after the birth of their last son in 1796-97, and before Randolph's May 1808 will. Randolph remarried

title: USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618)

text: USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618) USS "Thomas Jefferson" (SSBN-618), an nuclear-powered submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809). She later was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-618. "Thomas Jefferson"s keel was laid down on 3 February 1961, at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding sponsored by Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and commissioned on 4 January 1963, Commander Leon H. Rathbun commanding the Blue Crew and Commander Charles Priest, Jr., commanding

title: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

text: model. Boyd continued to work on the Papers until his death in 1980. Boyd's immediate successor, Charles T. Cullen, introduced computer technology and the systematic indexing of the volumes. During his lifetime of working on "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," Boyd created new, higher ideals for historical editing. Which his successors Cullen, and Catanzariti continued after his death. Subsequent editors have been John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and James P. McClure. In 1998 Princeton University entered into a partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns and operates Monticello, Jefferson's primary plantation and the place where he spent much