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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He also served as the second vice president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Born 13 April 1743 · Died 4 July 1826 · Q11812
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2026· 51 entries
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“s, found in the Gospels, was”
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“If we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated or driven beyond the Mississippi.”
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“s inflated number of electors. Others alleged that Jefferson secured James Asheton Bayard”
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“I cannot live without books.”
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“heard more common good sense, more rational & philosophical conversations than in all the rest of my life”
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Public attention spiked: 48,961 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.5× the usual 6,534, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: added category "people who have appeared on US currency"
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Public attention spiked: 48,961 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.3× the usual 6,662, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: added category "people who have appeared on US currency"
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2025· 3 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Muslims becomes mayor in NYC and Thomas Jefferson statue was removed from New York City Hall after 187 years.” misleading.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2024· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.”” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Thomas Jefferson said "when the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people, there is liberty."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Thomas Jefferson said, "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system.” False.
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2021· 2 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson introduced ice cream to America.” misleading.
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USA Today rated the claim “Alexander Hamilton told Thomas Jefferson that there weren’t enough words to string together in the English language to express how much he wanted to hit him with a chair” False.
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2020· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Thomas Jefferson won the election of 1800 in a landslide after Alexander Hamilton endorsed him over Aaron Burr.” Not landslide, different process.
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2019· 3 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Thomas Jefferson said "the government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth."” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “Posts claim that President Thomas Jefferson said, “The government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars, and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth."” No Evidence.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."” False.
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2018· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A meme contrasts viewpoints on the U.S. Constitution expressed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thomas Jefferson.” Mostly False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A meme contrasts viewpoints on the U.S. Constitution expressed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thomas Jefferson.” Mostly False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Thomas Jefferson said "When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant."” False.
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2017· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim ““Our conservative Georgia values are under attack” … (People) are “calling for the removal of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues.”” Half True.
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2012· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Thomas Jefferson advised carrying a gun while exercising to ensure physical and mental wellness.” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of governmental interference in medical care.” False.
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2002· 1 entry
Historian Merrill Peterson said: "in the absence of direct documentary evidence either proving or refuting the allegation, nothing conclusive can be said about Jefferson's relations with Sally Hemings
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1998· 1 entry
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
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1982· 1 entry
Has consistently ranked Jefferson as one of the five best U
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1943· 1 entry
On the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth
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1855· 1 entry
“The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence - Volume 6, Página 180, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1855”
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1832· 2 entries
“Notes on the state of Virginia - Página 123, Thomas Jefferson - Lilly and Wait, 1832 - 280 páginas”
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“Thomas Jefferson em carta de 12-07-1788; Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private Correspondence, página 135, B. L. Rayner - A. Francis and W. Boardman, 1832 - 556 páginas”
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1831· 1 entry
Monticello was sold by Martha Jefferson Randolph and the other heirs
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1829· 2 entries
“Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers - Página 320, Thomas Jefferson - Henry Colbura and Richard Bertley, 1829”
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“Carta para M. L"Abbe Arnond, 19 de julho de 1789, in: Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States, Volume 3 - Página 9, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829”
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1826· 8 entries
Died 1826-07-04.
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The 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, his last words were an acknowledgment of his longtime friend and rival
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Jefferson freed five male Hemings slaves in his will
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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
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“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”
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“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”
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“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
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“Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), carta de 1819”
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1825· 1 entry
“A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life”
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1824· 1 entry
Jefferson proposed that the federal government purchase and deport 'the increase of each year' (that is, children), so that the slave population would age and eventually disappear
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1822· 2 entries
“I confidently expect that the present generation will see Unitarianism become the general religion of the United States.”
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Jefferson wrote, "I confidently expect that the present generation will see Unitarianism become the general religion of the United States
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1821· 1 entry
At the age of 77, Jefferson began writing his Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson: 1743–1790, in which he said he sought to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself"
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1819· 2 entries
Jefferson strongly opposed a Missouri statehood application amendment, which banned domestic slave importation and freed slaves at the age of 25 on grounds that it would destroy the union
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“Carta para Dr. Vine Utley (1819), in: "Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of Thomas Jefferson: late president of the United States", Volume 4 - Página 321, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829”
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1817· 2 entries
“My first wish is that the labourers may be well treated”
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The plantation recorded its largest slave population of 140 individuals
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1816· 2 entries
“The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826 - Volume 10, Página 68, Thomas Jefferson - G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899”
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“Carta a Mr. Adams, em 1 de agosto de 1816, in: "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State" - vol. 7, Página 27, de Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington - publicado por Taylor & Maury, 1854”
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1815· 1 entry
But remained active through correspondence
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1814· 1 entry
Jefferson sold his second library to the U
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1812· 1 entry
Adams wrote a short New Year's greeting to Jefferson, prompted earlier by Rush, to which Jefferson warmly responded
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1809· 2 entries
“To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland" ["Para os cidadãos republicanos do município de Washington, Maryland"] (31 de março de 1809).”
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“a prisoner, released from his chains”
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1808· 2 entries
Jefferson was the first president to propose a broad federal plan to build roads and canals across several states, asking for $20 million, further alarming Randolph and believers of limited government
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A military court looked into the allegations against Wilkinson but also found a lack of evidence
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1807· 3 entries
Burr was captured in Louisiana and sent to Virginia to be tried for treason
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Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act to defend the nation's industries from British threats to U
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Congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which Jefferson signed
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1806· 3 entries
Jefferson issued a call for a boycott of British goods; on April 18, Congress passed the Non-Importation Acts, but they were never enforced
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The Royal Navy began stopping American merchantmen to search for deserters from the British navy; approximately 6,000 sailors were impressed into the Royal Navy this way, leading to deep anger and resentment among the U
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Officially called for anti-slavery legislation terminating the import or export of slaves
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1805· 5 entries
Jefferson railed against Spain over Florida border depredations
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Napoleon became more aggressive in his negotiations with Jefferson and the U
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“I have long since given up the expectation of any early provision for the extinguishment of slavery among us.”
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During Jefferson's presidential administration, and then President Jefferson did not renew it
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Jefferson trusted Wilkinson and appointed him Louisiana Territory governor, admiring Wilkinson's work ethic
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1804· 5 entries
In an attempt at reconciliation unknown to Adams
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In a compromise, Jefferson and Congress banned domestic slave trafficking for one year into the Louisiana Territory
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To fund an expedition to explore and map the newly acquired territory to the Pacific Ocean
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Wilkinson received 12,000 pesos from the Spanish for information on American boundary plans
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Jefferson overwhelmingly defeated the Federalists' Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina
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1803· 3 entries
The Senate ratified the purchase treaty by a vote of 24–7
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Nonetheless, in 1803, Jefferson asserted, "I am Christian, in the only sense in which [Jesus] wished any one to be".
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Jefferson asserted, "I am Christian, in the only sense in which [Jesus] wished any one to be"
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1802· 4 entries
Founding the United States Military Academy at West Point
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“religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God”
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Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Connecticut Baptist Association that "religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God"
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Congress authorized Jefferson to name the first Librarian of Congress, and formed a committee to establish library regulations
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1801· 5 entries
After thirty-six ballots, the House elected Jefferson president and Burr vice president
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1801–1809).
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"I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution
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That "it is impossible not to look forward to distant times when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits, and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent"
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1801–1801).
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1800· 4 entries
Jefferson's unorthodox religious beliefs became an important issue in the 1800 presidential election.
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And, in 1819, founded the University of Virginia
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Placed him at odds with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who favored a capital close to major commercial centers in the Northeast, while Washington, Jefferson, and other agrarians wanted it further south
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Published his assembled notes on Senate procedure as A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
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1797· 1 entry
Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1797–1801).
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1796· 1 entry
“An Essay Towards Facilitating Instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern Dialects of the English Language”
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1790· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1790–1793).
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1787· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1787).
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1785· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to France (1785–1789).
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1779· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Virginia (1779–1781).
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1743· 1 entry
Born 1743-04-13.
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