Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

* Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia

On September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a young widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia.

Examples include the concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Christian County, Kentucky, marking his birthplace.

On September 20, 2011, the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia voted to change the name of " Old Jefferson Davis Highway " ( the original route of the road in the County ) after the chairman of the Board, Chris Zimmerman, who was originally from the Northeast, stated: " I have a problem with ' Jefferson Davis ' ...

* Portland, Louisville, Kentucky, a former town and now a neighborhood in Louisville, Jefferson County

Category: Geography of Jefferson County, Texas

Category: Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Texas

Category: Geography of Jefferson County, Texas

The third of ten children, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 ( April 2, 1743 OS ) at the family home in Shadwell, Goochland County, Virginia, now part of Albemarle County.

Beside practicing law, Jefferson represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Burgesses beginning on May 11, 1769 and ending June 20, 1775.

After Independence, Jefferson returned to Virginia and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates for Albemarle County.

The settlers, consisting of fifteen men, eleven women, and six children, all came from Jefferson County, New York.

* Waterloo, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, a town

** Waterloo, Wisconsin, a city within the town of Waterloo in Jefferson County

* Wellington, Kentucky, in Jefferson County

One result was that Jefferson County, home of Birmingham's industrial and economic powerhouse, contributed more than one-third of all tax revenue to the state.

* Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive at the Massachusetts Historical Society

Other areas of interest include downtown murals depicting the history of Pine Bluff, the Pine Bluff / Jefferson County Historical Museum, Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame and the Arkansas Railroad Museum.

Biographical & Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington.

Kentucky Historical Society roadside historical marker 1309, " Fort Jefferson site ," U. S. Highway 51 and 60.

* Jefferson Historical Museum, located in the former St. John's Methodist church, on US Route 2, east of village center.

* The Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson

* Jefferson County Historical Society, With Pride in Heritage: History of Jefferson County, Portland, Oregon, Professional Publishing Printing, Inc., 1966.

* Jefferson County Historical Society

Independence National Historical Park comprises a landscaped area of four city blocks, as well as outlying sites that include: Independence Square, Carpenters ' Hall ( meeting place of the First Continental Congress ), the site of Benjamin Franklin's home, the reconstructed Graff House ( where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence ), City Tavern ( center of Revolutionary War activities ), restored period residences, and several early banks.

* Hickey, Donald R. " Timothy Pickering and the Haitian Slave Revolt: A Letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1806 ," Essex Institute Historical Collections 120, 3 ( 1984 ): 149-63.

* The Jefferson Park Historical Society's official website

* Escott, Paul D. " Joseph E. Brown, Jefferson Davis, and the Problem of Poverty in the Confederacy ," Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol.

Jefferson bought a copy of Rushworth's Historical Collections for use in his own library and he often quoted from them.

Two Virginia Historical Highway Markers, # VA-012 and # VA-053, are located on Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway ( US Highways 1 & 301 ) nearby, and commemorate actions relating to Drewry's Bluff.

* Oregon Biographies: Thomas Jefferson Dryer from the Oregon Historical Society

*" Thomas Jefferson ( descendants in Wisconsin )", Wisconsin Historical Society

The Origins of Left-Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings, edited by Vallentyne and Steiner, places Hugo Grotius, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Spence, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Henry George in the left libertarian tradition.

* Marraro: Jefferson Letters Concerning the Settlement of Mazzei's Virginia Estate, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol.

Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.

Although he never graduated, during his time at the university he was heavily involved in the Virginia Glee Club and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, serving as the society's president.

* November 14 – The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society was held at Canonsburg Academy ( now Washington & Jefferson College ).

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Attended by approximately 1, 000 of the Bay Area's original " hippies ", this was San Francisco's first psychedelic rock performance, costumed dance and light show, featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society and The Marbles.

* Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, a student society at the University of Virginia in the United States

Soon after, Slick was asked to join Jefferson Airplane by Jack Casady ( whose musicianship was a major influence on her decision ) and her Great Society contract was bought out for $ 750.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation ( TJF ), which runs Monticello, conducted an independent historic review in 2000, as did the National Genealogical Society in 2001 ; both reported scholars who concluded Jefferson was likely the father of all Hemings ' children.

Critics, such as the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society ( TJHS ) Scholars Commission ( 2001 ), have argued against the TJF report and reached different conclusions about the DNA tests.

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* Rebecca L. and James F. McMurry, Jr., " Anatomy of a Scandal, Thomas Jefferson and the Sally Story ", ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2002 )

* Scholars Commission Report, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

Subsequently, he accepted an invitation for honorary membership to the University's Jefferson Literary and Debating Society.