* Marraro, Howard R .: An Unpublished Jefferson Letter to Mazzei, Italica, Vol.

* William Jefferson “ Bill ” Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America ( 1993 – 2001 ), AUBG Doctor of Humane Letters ( 1999 )

Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the " Penman of the Revolution " for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania ; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognized him as being " among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain " whose " name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the revolution.

The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776 – 1826, 3 vols.

* For a comprehensive-object study of his life see, Station Master of the Underground Railroad, the Life and Letters of Thoma Garrett, by Jame A. Mcowan: ( Jefferson, NC.

Letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and others, vividly record the issues and events of their day.

* Jefferson Prairie Settlement, a former Norwegian settlement in Rock County, Wisconsin

It was started by settlers from the Jefferson Prairie Settlement and the Fox River settlement.

The Norwegian-American settlement of Jefferson Prairie Settlement was located near the village.

It was organized at Koshkonong and Luther Valley near the Jefferson Prairie Settlement outside Madison, Wisconsin.

The organizing meeting was held at the Jefferson Prairie Settlement, near Clinton, Wisconsin from June 5-8.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

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.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

Opposition to them resulted in the highly controversial Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, authored by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Jefferson and James Madison also secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the federal legislation, though state legislatures rejected these resolutions.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

In the United States of America, this lineage of democratic education reform was continued by Thomas Jefferson, who advocated ambitious reforms partly along Platonic lines for public schooling in Virginia.

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, Madison served in the Virginia state legislature ( 1776 – 79 ), where he became known as a protégé of the delegate Thomas Jefferson.

Madison attained prominence in Virginia politics, working with Jefferson to draft the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which was finally passed in 1786.

Madison and Jefferson secretly drafted the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts to be unconstitutional and noted that " states, in contesting obnoxious laws, should ' interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

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

As governor he considered using the Virginia militia to force the outcome in favor of Jefferson.

* 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

William T. Sutherlin Mansion, Danville, Virginia, temporary residence of Jefferson Davis and dubbed Last Capitol of the Confederacy

Portions of the highway's route in Virginia, Alabama and other states still bear the name of Jefferson Davis.

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 ' ...

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.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

Since the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, America's policy had been to allow Native Americans to remain east of the Mississippi as long as they became assimilated or " civilized ".

Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821.

In Mississippi, the last Monday of May ( Memorial Day ) is celebrated as " National Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis ' Birthday ".

Category: Jefferson College ( Mississippi ) alumni

Although he agreed that the U. S. Constitution did not contain provisions for acquiring territory, Jefferson decided to go ahead with the purchase anyway in order to remove France's presence in the region and to protect both U. S. trade access to the port of New Orleans and free passage on the Mississippi River.

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

As governor of Virginia ( 1780 – 1781 ) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

Three other candidates, Isaac Toucey of Connecticut, James Pearce of Maryland, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ( the future president of the Confederate States ) also received votes.

* Jefferson County, Mississippi

* Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

Plans were made to continue through St. Louis, at confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and to Jefferson City upstream on the Missouri.

On May 15, 1820, Congress authorized an extension to St. Louis, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, and on March 3, 1825, across the Mississippi to Jefferson City, Missouri.

After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson and his successors viewed much of the land west of the Mississippi River as a place to resettle the native Americans, so that white settlers would be free to live in the lands east of the river.

* Jefferson, Mississippi, fictional town where many of William Faulkner's stories are set

On April 8, he set out from Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, moving up the Mississippi River by steamboat with about 220 soldiers.

It is bordered on the east by the Mississippi River, on the north by Jefferson County, on the west by St. Francois County, and on the south by Perry County.

After the War, the Mississippi Legislature along with Jones Countians changed the county's name to Davis ( for Jefferson Davis ) and the name of its county seat to Leesburg ( for Robert E. Lee ).

Jefferson Davis County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

It is named in honor of Mississippi Senator and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

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