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| | The American Revolution (Thomas Jefferson) |
 | | Jefferson, who was president from 1801 to 1809, was the acknowledged head of his political party, and his election to the highest office has been interpreted as a vindication of the right of political opposition. | | | Jefferson later said that the ousting of the Federalists and the accession of his own party constituted a "revolution," but that statement was hyperbole. | | | Jefferson's stay in France (1784-1789), where he was first a commissioner to negotiate commercial treaties and then Benjamin Franklin's successor as minister, was in many ways the richest period of his life. |
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http://theamericanrevolution.org/ipeople/tjeff.asp
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| | USA-Presidents.Info -Thomas Jefferson |
| | Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. | | | Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third (1801 - 1809) President of the United States. | | | This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. |
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http://www.usa-presidents.info/jefferson.htm
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| | Establishing a Federal Republic - Thomas Jefferson (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated third president of the United States on March 4, 1801, after being elected by the House of Representatives on February 17, 1801, on the thirty-sixth ballot in one of the nation's closest and most divisive presidential contests. | | | Thomas Jefferson's February 15, 1791, opinion on the constitutionality of a national bank is considered one of the stellar statements on the limited powers and strict construction of the Federal Constitution. | | | This manual was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and is based on the Parliamentary Pocket-Book or commonplace book and his experience during his tenure as vice-president and presiding officer of the United States Senate, 1797-1801. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefffed.html
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| | Jefferson, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Jefferson was the first President inaugurated in Washington, D.C., a city he had helped to plan. | | | Jefferson next opposed Hamilton by declaring against his Bank of the United States scheme on the ground that the Constitution did not specifically authorize it, rejecting the doctrine of “implied powers,” invoked by Hamilton& supporters. | | | Jefferson placed his faith in diplomacy backed by economic pressure as represented first by the Nonimportation Act (1806) and then by the Embargo Act of 1807. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/je/JeffersT.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia on April 13, 1743. | | | In 1784 Jefferson went to France as an associate Diplomat with Franklin and •Adams. | | | Thomas Jefferson attended the House of Burgesses as a student in 1765 when he witnessed •Patrick Henry's defiant stand against the Stamp Act. |
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http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/jefferson.htm
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| | Jefferson, Thomas [encyclopedia] |
| | Jefferson was one of many Southerners who criticized the Missouri Compromise.which admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state but ruled out slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30.as an undemocratic abuse of power by the federal government. | | | In 1779, Jefferson was elected governor of Virginia. | | | In his chosen epitaph, Jefferson made no mention of his eight years as America.s president, leaving behind a vision of this deeply complex man the way he himself wanted to be remembered:.Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.. |
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http://www.artzia.com/History/Biography/Jefferson
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| | American President |
| | Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, spent his childhood roaming the woods and studying his books on a remote plantation in the Virginia Piedmont. | | | Jefferson served as secretary of state under Washington, but quarrels with Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton over his vision of a centralized national bank caused Jefferson to resign his post in 1793. | | | Before becoming the nation's third President, Jefferson served as delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he drafted legislation that abolished primogeniture, the law that made the eldest son the sole inheritor of his father's property. |
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http://www.americanpresident.org/history/thomasjefferson
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| | Internet Public Library: POTUS |
| | Thomas Jefferson -- from The Presidents of the United States of America | | | Jefferson was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Approximately 6,000 books from Jefferson's private library were purchased for $23,950 to help start the Library of Congress. | | | Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he served as president of the United States. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/tjefferson.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Returning to Virginia late in 1776, Jefferson served until 1779 in the House of Delegates, one of the two houses of the General Assembly of Virginia--established in 1776 by the state's new constitution. | | | He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice-president in the administration of John Adams, and as president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. | | | Jefferson's triumph was delayed temporarily as a result of a tie in electoral ballots with his running mate, Aaron BURR, which shifted the election to the House of Representatives. |
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http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tjefferson.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States in 1801. | | | Jefferson was born on the family farm in Virginia to a wealthy family. | | | Thomas Jefferson died 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. |
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http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdjeff.htm
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826) is known the world over as the principal author, in 1776 at age 33, of the Declaration of Independence; as author of the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom instituting separation of church and state in Virginia, passed in 1786; and as third president of the United States, 1801-09. | | | Jefferson's public life was not without turmoil, failure and scandal, nor was his private life without tragedy and trouble. | | | He was a delegate to the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia, 1769-76; Governor of Virginia during the War for Independence, 1779-81; for five years U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89, where he observed events leading to the French Revolution; the first Secretary of State under George Washington, 1790-93; and Vice President under John Adams, 1797-1801. |
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http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/thomasjefferson.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson Memorial (National Park Service) |
| | But in the end, Jefferson's own appraisal of his life, and the one that he wrote for use on his own tombstone, suffices: "Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. | | | Thomas Jefferson struck a chord for human liberty 200 years ago that resounds through the decades. | | | President John F. Kennedy recognized Jefferson's accomplishments when he told a gathering of American Nobel Prize winners that they were the greatest assemblage of talent in the White House since Jefferson had dinner there alone. |
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http://www.nps.gov/thje
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| | Colonial Hall: Biography of Thomas Jefferson, Page 1 |
| | Thomas Jefferson was born on the second day of April, O. 1743, (April 13, 1743) at a place called Shadwell, in the county of Albermarle, and state of Virginia, a short distance from Monticello. | | | Jefferson was called to the bar in the year 1766. | | | His father, Peter Jefferson, was much known in the province, as a gentleman of considerable scientific attainments, and more than ordinary firmness and integrity. |
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http://www.colonialhall.com/jefferson/jefferson.php
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Thomas Jefferson - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826, 3d President of the United States (1801–9), author of the... | | | The purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803, though in violation of Jefferson's earlier constitutional scruples, was the most notable act of his administration. | | | Elected vice president in 1796, Jefferson continued to serve as spiritual leader of the opposition to Federalism, particularly to the repressive Alien and Sedition Acts. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760627.html
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| | The Thomas Jefferson Papers - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) |
| | Well documented are his two administrations as president from 1801 through 1809, when he engineered the purchase of the Louisiana territory and maintained American neutrality in the conflict between France and Great Britain that led to the War of 1812. | | | This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. | | | The Thomas Jefferson Papers - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers
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| | Six Historic Americans: Thomas Jefferson |
| | The clergy circulated a story to the effect that Jefferson admitted his indebtedness to the church by declaring that it was to a preacher, Dr. Small, of William and Mary College, that he owed the destinies of his life. | | | The "Memoirs, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a grandson of the distinguished statesman, was printed in four large volumes, and published in 1829. | | | Jefferson, that Jehovah has no attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born free and equal. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_2.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States | | | Best known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. | | | He could read more than five languages and was the U.S. minister to France for several years. |
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http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/jefferson
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| | Positive Atheism's Big List of Thomas Jefferson Quotations |
| | This was used again by Jefferson in his letter to the Virginia Baptsits, and was several times upheld by the Supreme Court as an accurate description of the Establishment Clause: Reynolds (98 U.S. at 164, 1879); Everson (330 U.S. at 59, 1947); McCollum (333 U.S. at 232, 1948) | | | Since it was Jefferson's appointed duty to draft the Declaration, it behooved them not to divulge that it came from another's pen, though everyone during those times agreed that Paine's pen was the most elequent of that era. | | | Be this as it may, every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the U.S. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents. |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/jefferson.htm
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| | The Jefferson Bible |
| | La Biblia de Jefferson The Jefferson Bible in Spanish. | | | Rayner's lively and interesting biography, published in 1834, emphasizes the role of republican principles in Jefferson's life and thought. | | | Commentary on today's social and political issues based on the writings of Thomas Jefferson. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible
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| | Thomas Jefferson University |
| | It consists of the Jefferson Medical College, the Jefferson College of Graduate Studies, the Jefferson College of Health Professions and associated University services. | | | The views or opinions expressed in the resources provided do not necessarily reflect those of Thomas Jefferson University, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, or the Jefferson Health System or staff. | | | Inside the Criminal Mind --- Forensic Psychiatrist Addresses Diagnosis of Defendants at Jefferson’s 2006 Biele Lecture April 24th |
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http://www.jefferson.edu/main
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| | Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Front Page |
| | homas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was this nation's greatest champion of representative democracy and the rights of man. He was our most eloquent spokesman on the founding principles of American self-government. | | | Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Front Page | | | The excerpts were chosen, not for their historical significance, but as an expression of Jefferson's PRINCIPLES of government that have relevance for us today. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations
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| | Thomas Jefferson Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792 | | | Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798 | | | Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790 |
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson
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| | Objectivism and Thomas Jefferson: Front Page |
| | Rayner's lively and interesting full-length biography, published in 1834, emphasizes the role of republican principles in Jefferson's life and thought. | | | Commentary on today's social and political issues based on the writings of Thomas Jefferson. | | | Hundreds of questions and answers related to Thomas Jefferson and his writings. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7842/otjindex.htm
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| | TJHSST - News |
| | In recent years, local business leaders and Jefferson parents have formed the Jefferson Partnership Fund to help raise money to maintain and equip labs and classrooms in the school. | | | On Saturday March 11th the TJ Senior Computer team placed 1st out of 40 teams at the annual University of Maryland programming contest, narrowly defeating Montgomery Blair. | | | In addition to providing a specialized education for selected students in Fairfax County, Jefferson also serves other school districts including Arlington, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William counties as well as the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church. |
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http://www.tjhsst.edu
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| | Thomas Jefferson - Great Buildings Online |
| | Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia in 1743. | | | While acting as Minister to France from 1784-89 Jefferson studied the architectural heritage of France, gaining insight from architectural historians and site visits. | | | From the mid 1770s he employed and worked with his distinguished contemporary Benjamin H. Latrobe on the Capitol design. |
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Thomas_Jefferson.html
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| | Amazon.com: Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / ... |
| | Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (Hardcover) | | | Amazon.com: Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America): Books: Thomas Jefferson,Merrill D. Peterson | | | This volume is a must have for the Jefferson reader. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/094045016X?v=glance
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Interpreting Thomas Jefferson is almost an around-the-clock commitment. | | | Listen to a "Behind the Scenes" Interview: Bill Barker on Thomas Jefferson. | | | Meet the People : Thomas Jefferson : Thomas Jefferson |
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http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/jeffhdr.cfm
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| | Jefferson Digital Archive |
| | Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson | | | A Guide to The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia Z6616.J4 T45 1973 | | | The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Fifty years after writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson could say:"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man." | | | Thomas Jefferson, so uniquely American in both his awesome talents and serious shortcomings, makes a most interesting historical figure. | | | I believe one of the most important explanations for why the United States has enjoyed such relative prosperity and good fortune so far is that geniuses like Jefferson helped build the initial national edifice which has stood strongly against the inclement winds of change and test of time. |
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http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/jefferson/jefferson.html
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| | Thomas Jefferson |
| | Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia (Off Site) (including over 1,700 texts by or to Thomas Jefferson) | | | A Story About the Official Thomas Jefferson Papers Collection at Princeton University (Off Site) (There is no known web access to this collection; serious researchers must contact Princeton for information on Jefferson's papers.) | | | President Thopmas Jefferson Collected By Positive Atheism (Cliff Walker, Webmaster) (Off Site) |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_jefferson
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| | Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility |
| | The importance of math and science education in fueling technological innovation was highlighted by President George W. Bush in his recent State of the Union Address. | | | Jefferson Lab's Detector and Imaging Group is making this research possible with an imaging system they designed for use at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. | | | The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, as the contractor for management and operation of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. |
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http://www.jlab.org
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| | Thomas Jefferson - Autobiography |
| | Wythe, George Mason, Thomas L. Lee and myself were appointed a committee to execute the work. | | | Jefferson, after the debts should be paid, which were very considerable, was about equal to my own patrimony, and consequently doubled the ease of our circumstances. | | | He had three sons, Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter my father, who settled on the lands I still own called Shadwell adjoining my present residence. |
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http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Autobiography.html
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| | The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson |
| | Rotunda Fire Commemoration, University of Virginia Designed by T. Jefferson; fire 1895. | | | Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1796; 1809 Kitchen and other functional rooms. |
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http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/Jeffersn.html
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