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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: " The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and / or other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.
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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, and named U. S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis its leader, who selected William Clark as his partner.
The presidential authority to commission officers would have a large impact on the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, where outgoing Federalist President John Adams feverishly signed many commissions to the judiciary on his final day in office, hoping to, as incoming Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson put it, " into the judiciary as a stronghold.
* March 12 – Richard Roberts, ship's captain perished while in command of the SS President ( famous quote: I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub ) ( b. 1803 )
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars ( equivalent to about $ 230 million today ) which included all the land drained by the Missouri River and roughly doubled the size of U. S. territory.
He was elected for a Senate term of his own in 1797, which included the 5th Congress, the 6th Congress of 1799-1801 during which he was President pro tempore, and the 7th Congress, serving until March 3, 1803.
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.
Responding to the problems from those elections, the Congress proposed the Twelfth Amendment in 1803 — prescribing electors cast separate ballots for President and Vice President — to replace the system outlined in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3.
After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition to explore the western territories.
Maurice Witham received the patent for this land from President Thomas Jefferson on November 28, 1803.
In an 1803 letter to Vice President Aaron Burr, he characterized the plans and work done as " faulty construction ".
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805, during the last two years of the first administration of U. S. President Thomas Jefferson.
* President pro tempore: John Brown ( DR ), October 17, 1803 – February 26, 1804
Arthur St. Clair was the territory's governor until November 1802, when President Thomas Jefferson removed him from office and appointed Charles Willing Byrd, who served the position until Ohio became a state and elected its first governor, Edward Tiffin, on March 3, 1803.
Lafayette boasted in 1792 that he had become an American citizen before the French Revolution created the concept of French citizenship, and in 1803 and 1804, President Jefferson offered to make him Governor of Louisiana.
Even before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wanted to connect the distant Mississippi frontier to other settled areas of the United States.
After serving as President Thomas Jefferson's spokesman in the House, he broke with Jefferson in 1803 and became the leader of the " Old Republican " or " Quids ", an extreme states ' rights vanguard of the Democratic-Republican Party who wanted to restrict the role of the federal government.
A letter from Thomas Jefferson | President Thomas Jefferson to the United States Congress | U. S. Congress, dated January 18, 1803, asking for $ 2, 500 to equip an expedition that would explore the lands west to the Pacific.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, and named his personal secretary and U. S. Army Captain, Meriwether Lewis, its leader, who selected William Clark as his partner.
Sarah Childress Polk ( September 4, 1803 – August 14, 1891 ) was the wife of the 11th President of the United States, James Polk, and the 12th woman to serve as First Lady.
When the region was obtained by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Jefferson wrote of the " immense and trackless deserts " of the region.
In 1803, with the successful purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France, President Thomas Jefferson ordered an expedition to the west coast, which was led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
In 1803, President Jefferson appointed James to be United States Minister to Great Britain, and also the United States Minister to Spain.
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In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK.
Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction, which he presented to the Royal Society in 1803
Thomas Young performed a celebrated experiment in 1803 demonstrating interference from two closely spaced slits.
In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.
He was the eldest of four surviving children ; his younger siblings were George ( 1797 – 1841 ), Thomas ( 1799 – 1818 ), and Frances Mary " Fanny " ( 1803 – 1889 ).
In 1803 in the midst of the Napoleonic wars between France and Britain, Thomas Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, a major land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the United States.
Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction of waves, 1803
* Thomas Stock ( 1750 – 1803 ), English clergyman
Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).
Thomas Percival was a British physician who published a book called Medical Ethics in 1803.
In a famous letter to Meriwether Lewis in 1803, Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Clark expedition to " carry with you some matter of the kine-pox ; inform those of them with whom you may be, of its efficacy as a preservative from the smallpox ; & encourage them in the use of it ..." Jefferson had developed an interest in protecting Native Americans from smallpox having been aware of epidemics along the Missouri River during the previous century.
This is how Thomas Young speaking on November 24, 1803, to the Royal Society of London, began his description of the historic experiment.
* 1803 – Thomas Moore of Baltimore, Md.
* 1803 — Thomas Young develops the Double-slit experiment and demonstrates the effect of interference.
In 1803 as he was set to leave Rome, he received the commission to execute the Jason in marble from Thomas Hope, a wealthy English art-patron.
Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot ( 1771 ), Benjamin Franklin ( 1778-09 ), Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1778 ), Voltaire ( 1781 ), Molière ( 1781 ), George Washington ( 1785 – 88 ), Thomas Jefferson ( 1789 ), Louis XVI ( 1790 ), Robert Fulton, 1803 – 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1806 ).
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States, Thomas Jefferson set the stage for the continental expansion of the United States.
In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson brought the area under United States control.
In 1803, Thomas Hopper was the first to settle in this county near Hardinsburg.
On 21 October 1803, co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen, Thomas Russell, " the man from God knows where ", was hanged outside Downpatrick Gaol for his part in Robert Emmet's failed rebellion of the same year.
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