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.

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.

Blount County is bordered by Cullman, Marshall, Etowah, Jefferson, Walker, and St. Clair Counties.

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.

It is bordered by Jackson County on the north, Jefferson County on the north and east, Douglas County on the east, Osage County on the south, Wabaunsee County on the west, and Pottawatomie County on the west.

Blount County is bordered by Cullman, Marshall, Etowah, Jefferson, and Walker Counties.

Port Jefferson UFSD is bordered on the west by Three Village CSD, on the south by Comsewogue UFSD, and on the east by Mount Sinai UFSD.

The city is bordered by the boroughs of Elizabeth ( via Malady Bridge ), Glassport ( via the Clairton-Glassport Bridge ), Jefferson Hills, West Elizabeth, and West Mifflin.

The borough is bordered by the City of Pittsburgh neighborhoods Lincoln Place and Hays, and the boroughs of Munhall and Whitaker to the north, the city of Duquesne to the east, the borough of Dravosburg to the southeast, the boroughs of Jefferson Hills and Pleasant Hills to the south, and the borough of Baldwin to the west.

In 1981, the NPS defined the official boundaries of the National Mall ( National Mall proper ) as Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues on the north, 1st Street NW on the east, Independence and Maryland Avenues on the south, and 14th Street NW on the west, with the exception of the section of land bordered by Jefferson Drive on the north, Independence Avenue on the south, and by 12th and 14th Streets respectively on the east and west, which the U. S. Department of Agriculture administers and which contains the Jamie L. Whitten Building ( U. S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building ).

South Park Township is bordered by Baldwin to the north, Pleasant Hills and Jefferson Hills to the east, Union Township ( in Washington County ) to the south, and Bethel Park to the west.

According to her daughter and to eyewitness accounts ( the French delegation ), Martha Jefferson was musical and highly educated, a constant reader, with a good nature, and a vivacious temper that sometimes bordered on tartness.

Portage Park is bordered by the community areas of Jefferson Park and Forest Glen to the north, Dunning and the suburb of Harwood Heights to the west, Irving Park to the east and Belmont-Cragin to the south.

Union Hill is bordered on the south by Jefferson Avenue, on the north by Venable Street, on the east by 25th Street, and by Mosby on the west.

It is bordered by Country Club Park on the north, Harvard Heights on the east, Jefferson Park on the south, and Victoria Park on the west.