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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.
science · Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 · teacher · cryptographer · architect · lawyer · writer · diplomat · politician · philosopher · inventor · planter class · also Thomas Jefferson, President Jefferson, T. Jefferson, Jefferson
Born 13 April 1743 · Died 4 July 1826 · Q11812
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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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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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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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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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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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Has consistently ranked Jefferson as one of the five best U
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On the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth
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Career landmark: first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson.
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Studied at College of William & Mary.
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Career landmark: member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Monticello was sold by Martha Jefferson Randolph and the other heirs
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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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Died 1826-07-04.
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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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Jefferson freed five male Hemings slaves in his will
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“A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life”
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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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Jefferson wrote, "I confidently expect that the present generation will see Unitarianism become the general religion of the United States
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“I confidently expect that the present generation will see Unitarianism become the general religion of the United States.”
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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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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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The plantation recorded its largest slave population of 140 individuals
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“My first wish is that the labourers may be well treated”
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But remained active through correspondence
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Jefferson sold his second library to the U
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Adams wrote a short New Year's greeting to Jefferson, prompted earlier by Rush, to which Jefferson warmly responded
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“a prisoner, released from his chains”
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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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Burr was captured in Louisiana and sent to Virginia to be tried for treason
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Congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which Jefferson signed
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Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act to defend the nation's industries from British threats to U
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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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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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Officially called for anti-slavery legislation terminating the import or export of slaves
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Jefferson railed against Spain over Florida border depredations
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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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Jefferson trusted Wilkinson and appointed him Louisiana Territory governor, admiring Wilkinson's work ethic
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During Jefferson's presidential administration, and then President Jefferson did not renew it
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Napoleon became more aggressive in his negotiations with Jefferson and the U
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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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Jefferson overwhelmingly defeated the Federalists' Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina
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Wilkinson received 12,000 pesos from the Spanish for information on American boundary plans
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In an attempt at reconciliation unknown to Adams
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To fund an expedition to explore and map the newly acquired territory to the Pacific Ocean
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The Senate ratified the purchase treaty by a vote of 24–7
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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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Founding the United States Military Academy at West Point
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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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“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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After thirty-six ballots, the House elected Jefferson president and Burr vice president
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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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Career landmark: President of the United States (1801–1809).
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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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And, in 1819, founded the University of Virginia
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Published his assembled notes on Senate procedure as A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1797–1801).
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“An Essay Towards Facilitating Instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern Dialects of the English Language”
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1790–1793).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1787).
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Career landmark: United States Ambassador to France (1785–1789).
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Career landmark: Governor of Virginia (1779–1781).
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Born 1743-04-13.
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