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.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle

* 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 ).

Multiple anagramming is a technique used to solve some kinds of cryptograms, such as a permutation cipher, a transposition cipher, and the Jefferson disk.

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

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Jefferson is known to have done an unusual amount of traveling for the time in the American South, which is reflected in the difficulty of pigeonholing his music into one regional category.

* Blind Lemon Jefferson is the featured musician on a State of Texas license plate.

Thomas Jefferson called these inalienable rights: "... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

The English word catenary is usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson,

* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Particularly heated is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.

For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.

* 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U. S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

* 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

* 1852 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

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

* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

In the 21st century, it is the center of government in Jefferson County, and institutions based in the town offer services for disabled or troubled youths.

Corrupt county commissioner Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg, who either runs or has fingers in just about everything in Hazzard County ( and whose exact powers, much like the terms of the Duke boys ' probation, often vary between episodes ) is forever angry with the Dukes, in particular Bo and Luke, for eternally foiling his crooked scams and is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so that his plots have a chance of succeeding.

* Rosco Purvis Coltrane ( James Best ) is the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard County and right-hand man and brother-in-law of its corrupt county administrator, Jefferson Davis " J. D.

Orange County is the county in the very southeastern corner of Texas, with a boundary with Louisiana but does not have a seacoast on the Gulf of Mexico as Jefferson County and Sabine Lake border Orange County to the South.

Orange County is bordered on its east by the Sabine River-the border with Louisiana, on its southeast by Sabine Lake, on its west by Jefferson County-its parent county, and on its north by three different counties of Texas.

Jefferson County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York.

It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805.

Jefferson Community College in Watertown provides higher education within the county.

This county was larger than the current Oneida County, including the present Jefferson, Lewis, and part of Oswego Counties.

Jefferson City is the capital of the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County.

Louisville (, or ) is a major city and the largest city in the U. S. state of Kentucky and the county seat of Jefferson County.

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

Jefferson County is the only county in Florida which borders both the state of Georgia and the Gulf of Mexico

Jefferson County is the most populous county in the U. S. state of Alabama, with its county seat being located in Birmingham.

Jefferson County is the principal and most populous county in the Birmingham metropolitan area.

Well-before Birmingham was even founded ( in 1871 ), the county seat of Jefferson County was located at Carrollsville ( 1819 – 21 ) and Elyton ( 1821 – 73 ), and since 1873 it has been located in Birmingham, which was named for the English city of the same name in Warwickshire.

, Jefferson County has slashed expenses and reduced employment of county government workers by more than 700.

On March 16, 2011, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jefferson County's 2009 occupational tax law was passed unconstitutionally, in a decision that dealt a devastating financial blow to a county considering bankruptcy.

There are two judicial courthouses in Jefferson County, a situation dating back to when the state legislature was making preparations to split off a portion of Jefferson County to create a new county, centered around Bessemer.

Interstate 65 and U. S. Highway 31 have long provided stong connections between Shelby county and the more populous Jefferson County directly to its north.

* Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport-Commercial passenger and freight service in an adjacent county: Jefferson County, Alabama

The county is part of the Louisville / Jefferson County, KY – IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The county is the second-largest in the state in terms of area ( trailing only Baldwin County ) and sixth-largest in terms of population ( behind Jefferson, Mobile, Madison, Montgomery, and Shelby counties ).

The city is the county seat of Jefferson County.