Jefferson's son-in-law, former Virginia Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., said in 1826 that Jefferson had a " strong repugnance " to Henry Clay.

These women whose organization grew out of the old suffrage movement are dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's dictum that one must cherish the people's spirit but `` Keep alive their attention ''.

* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

* 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

See also Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Cooper.

Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).

In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Probably the two most famous declarations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are John Locke's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government and Thomas Jefferson's formulation in the United States Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal ".

Smallpox Zero includes President Thomas Jefferson's letter of congratulations to Edward Jenner.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

During Thomas Jefferson's embargo of 1807-1809, these same places became the primary places where goods were smuggled out of the nation in defiance of the law.

When Jefferson's father Peter died Thomas inherited, among other things, his large library.

alt = Obelisk at Thomas Jefferson's gravesite

During the last hours of Jefferson's life he was accompanied by his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and his doctor, Robley Dunglison and other family members and friends.

** Thomas Jefferson's Plan for the University of Virginia: Lessons from the Lawn, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

** The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

** President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.

Thomas Jefferson won the votes of Kentucky, newly separated from Jefferson's home state of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson Randolph soon collected and published Jefferson's correspondence.

While some historians credit Thomas Jefferson's influence, it is Madison who often now receives greater foundational credit as the father of the Constitution despite his repeated rejection of the honor during his lifetime.

* Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, official site

* A photographic collection of Thomas Jefferson's architecture

At the age of 57, he married Anne Cary (" Nancy ") Randolph, who was the sister of Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., husband of Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

Randolph had been President Jefferson's political opponent in the House.

Randolph attempted to block Madison's nomination by running James Monroe ; thus gaining the support of Federalists, since Madison was considered Jefferson's staunch political ally.

John Randolph of Roanoke led the Quid effort to stop Jefferson's choice of James Madison.

After Jefferson's death, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph sold the property.

In 1824, a ketchup recipe using tomatoes appeared in The Virginia Housewife ( an influential 19th-century cookbook written by Mary Randolph, Thomas Jefferson's cousin ).

" Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, described her as " light colored and decidedly good looking.

Jefferson's married daughter Martha Randolph, who was Hemings ' niece, withheld her from the auction and freed her by giving her " time " after Jefferson's death.

The TJHS report suggested that Jefferson's younger brother Randolph Jefferson could have been the father, and that Hemings may have had multiple partners.

Juliette was educated in several prominent boarding schools, including the Virginia Female Institute ( now Stuart Hall School ); Edgehill School run by Thomas Jefferson's granddaughters, the Misses Randolph ; Miss Emmett's School in Morristown, New Jersey ; and Mesdemoiselles Charbonniers, a French finishing school in New York City.

Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, is acknowledged by Randolph Hall.

He was the grand nephew of both Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph, the two pillars of the First Continental Congress, the nephew of Congressman Theodorick Bland and step-nephew of Thomas Tudor Tucker, a half brother of Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and a cousin of Thomas Jefferson as Jefferson's mother was the daughter of Isham Randolph.

Isham Randolph of Dungeness, one of Thomas Jefferson's grandfathers and son of William Randolph, was married in St. Paul's church.

He was President Thomas Jefferson's youngest grandson by his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph.

Judges of the Superior Court were John Bartow Prevost ( 1804 – 1808 ), Ephraim Kirby ( 1804 ) ( died en route to New Orleans ), Peter Stephen Duponceau ( 1804 ) ( declined President Thomas Jefferson's appointment ), William Sprigg ( 1805 – 1807 ), George Mathews, Jr. ( 1805 – 1813 ), Joshua Lewis ( 1807 – 1813 ) and Francois Xavier Martin ( 1810 – 1813 ).

They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Jefferson's biographer Dumas Malone argued that this might have gotten Jefferson impeached for treason, had his actions become known at the time.

The influence of Jefferson's doctrine of states ' rights reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond.

Jefferson's singing and self-accompaniment were distinctive as a result of his high-pitched voice and originality on the guitar.

By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and Lemon Jefferson's birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census.

The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.

Jefferson's music is uninhibited and represented the classic sounds of everyday life from a honky-tonk to a country picnic to street corner blues to work in the burgeoning oil fields, a reflection too of his interest in mechanical things.

Uncharacteristically, Jefferson's first two recordings from this session were gospel songs (" I Want to be like Jesus in my Heart " and " All I Want is that Pure Religion "), released under the name Deacon L. J. Bates.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

It was Jefferson's “ old-fashioned sound and confident musicianship that made him easy to market.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

Jefferson's two songs released on Okeh have considerably better sound quality than on his Paramount records at the time.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

The white North Carolina performer Arthel " Doc " Watson credited listening to Jefferson's recordings as his first exposure to the blues, which would powerfully influence his own style.

Nelson subsequently ignored Jefferson's instructions to remain inactive, returning to the quarterdeck shortly before the explosion on Orient to oversee the closing stages of the battle.