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Jefferson County is the only part of modern-day West Virginia not exempted from the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation ( as Berkeley County and the 48 counties designated as West Virginia had been ).
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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
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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.
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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.
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" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.
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.
Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.
Margaret was the only child of Jefferson and Varina to marry and raise a family.
Knowing she was severely ill, in 1878 Dorsey made over her will, leaving Beauvoir and her financial assets to Jefferson Davis and, in the case of his death, to his only surviving child, Winnie Davis.
On Saturday, January 22, the full cabinet met and only Secretary of War Jefferson Davis and Secretary of Navy James C. Dobbin supported repeal.
Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.
Jefferson had authorized Livingston only to purchase New Orleans.
After Martha Jefferson, his wife of eleven years, died in 1782, Jefferson remained a widower for the rest of his life ; his marriage produced six children, with only two surviving to adulthood.
Thomas Jefferson was little interested and indifferent to his ancestry and he only knew of the existence of his paternal grandfather.
A diligent student, Jefferson displayed an avid curiosity in all fields and graduated in 1762, completing his studies in only two years.
In these private meetings, Jefferson attacked Adams, predicted that he would only serve one term, and encouraged France to invade England.
He defines the right of " liberty " by saying, " Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others ..." A proper government, for Jefferson, is one that not only prohibits individuals in society from infringing on the liberty of other individuals, but also restrains itself from diminishing individual liberty.
Hailed only a few years earlier as a hero of the American Revolution, Paine was now lambasted in the press and called " the scavenger of faction ", a " lilly-livered sinical rogue ", a " loathsome reptile ", a " demi-human archbeast ", " an object of disgust, of abhorrence, of absolute loathing to every decent man except the President of the United States Jefferson ".
Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.
In this capacity, only four Vice Presidents have been able to announce their own election to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush.
Adams lived in the house only briefly before Thomas Jefferson moved into the " pleasant country residence " in 1801.
Randolph publicly stated that Jefferson became friendly to Jackson's candidacy as early as the summer of 1825, perhaps because of the " corrupt bargain " charge, and thought of Jackson as " an honest, sincere, clear-headed and strong-minded man ; of the soundest political principles " and " the only hope left " to reverse the increasing powers assumed by the federal government.
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 ...
Even though Lewis and Clark had only traveled a narrow portion of the upper Missouri River drainage and part of the Columbia River drainage, these were considered the two major rivers draining most of the Rocky Mountains, and the expedition confirmed that there was no " easy " route through the northern Rocky Mountains as Jefferson had hoped.
After Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, his only surviving daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph inherited Monticello.
A large clock face on the external east-facing wall has only an hour hand since Jefferson thought this was accurate enough for outdoor laborers.
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