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As Jefferson s Secretary of State ( 1801 – 1809 ), Madison supervised the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation s size.
Three of Jefferson s older brothers served during the War of 1812.
In Texas, " Confederate Heroes Day " is celebrated on January 19, the birthday of Robert E. Lee ; Jefferson Davis birthday had been officially celebrated on June 3 but was combined with Lee's birthday in 1973.
In hindsight, the Louisiana Purchase could be considered one of Thomas Jefferson s greatest contributions to the United States.
For instance, in Thomas Jefferson s " Commonplace Book ," a quote from Cesare Beccaria reads, " laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ...
" And just about everyone did: Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Jefferson, Betty Carter, Anita O Day, Joe Carroll, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Jon Hendricks, Babs Gonzales, and Dizzy Gillespie all were important singers in the idiom.
DPZ s projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize and two Governor s Urban Design Awards for Excellence.
Seagal stated that " I ve decided to work with A & E on this series now because I believe it s important to show the nation all the positive work being accomplished here in Louisiana — to see the passion and commitment that comes from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff s Office in this post-Katrina environment.
" Jefferson s immediate successors, James Madison and James Monroe, adhered to the two-term principle as well.
After the acrimonious events that resulted in Jefferson Starship s 1984 breakup, Paul Kantner reunited with Balin and Jack Casady in 1985 to form the KBC Band.
It is believed that many stayed the night at the Teas tavern, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Chastellux.
North Carolinian James Jefferson Lafayott Glass came to the county in 1883 and signed on with the Sterling Brothers Half Circle S spread.
Maj. Jefferson Van Horne s battalion, was sent for additional surveying.
As the historian Edmund S. Morgan has noted, " Hemings herself was withheld from auction and freed at last by Jefferson s daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, who was, of course, her niece.
While the Assembly s reasoning is superficially logical, its rejection of the name Jefferson ” almost certainly was motivated by the considerable antagonism held by dominant Federalist politicians in Hartford, who led New England in their opposition to President Jefferson and his policies.
We do not know the reason why the country ‘ s third president — then midway through his second term — was so popular among North Stonington residents, although perhaps Jeffersons public criticism of the Congregational Church s domination of politics and religion in Connecticut earned him the loyalty of the local Baptist community, which perhaps regarded him as a champion of their rights in a state that still enshrined preferential rights to the Congregational Church.

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The wound was immediately inspected by Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s surgeon Michael Jefferson, who informed the admiral that it was a simple flesh wound and stitched the skin together.
The Assembly, which met the following month, approved the new town ‘ s independence, but did not endorse the town ‘ s proposed new name of Jefferson, and instead directed that the town would be named North Stonington ,” citing as justification that for almost a century the northern part of Stonington had been known by that name.

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Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that
* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).
Also, as in the previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis complaining about his direct superior.
With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.
Thomas Jefferson writes in a 1814 letter to Thomas Law:
Generally, each NOAA hull number is written with a space between the letter and the three-digit number, as in, for example, NOAAS Nancy Foster ( R 352 ) or NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ).
Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813:
In an 1803 letter to William Henry Harrison, Jefferson wrote:
On April 18, 1802, Jefferson penned a letter to Robert Livingston.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.
#* In a letter to Benjamin Rush prefacing his " Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus ", Jefferson wrote:
While not a notable orator, Jefferson was an indefatigable letter writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe.
On June 24 Jefferson wrote his last letter, to a Washington newspaper, the National Intelligencer, where he once more reaffirmed his faith in the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).
Years later, in 1802 Thomas Jefferson, writing of the " wall of separation " echoed Roger Williams in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.
In 1827, Virginia Governor William B. Giles released a letter from Jefferson meant to be kept private to Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer.
The first reference to the street as Pennsylvania Avenue comes in a 1791 letter from Thomas Jefferson.
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.
By March, an increasingly frustrated Jefferson was resolved to enforce the embargo to the letter.
Jefferson, also from Virginia, agreed that Hamilton's proposal was against both the spirit and letter of the Constitution.
The Christian right points out that the term " separation of church and state " is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, not from the Constitution itself.
Banneker expressed his views on slavery and racial equality in a letter to Thomas Jefferson and in other documents that he placed within his 1793 almanac.
On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.

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