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.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

Jefferson was one of eight children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson.

In Dallas, Jefferson was one of the earliest and most prominent figures in the blues movement developing in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas.

Also, by the early 1920s, Jefferson was earning enough money for his musical performances to support a wife, and possibly a child.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

Jefferson was reputedly unhappy with his royalties ( although Williams said that Jefferson had a bank account containing as much as $ 1500 ).

There he had taught and been a major influence over Thomas Jefferson, and had formed the focus of a local group of intellectuals.

Following its victory in the war and peace treaty with Great Britain, in 1783 the United States formed a Congress of the Confederation ( informally called the Continental Congress ), to which Jefferson was appointed as a Virginia delegate.

Jefferson and Madison rallied opposition support by anonymously writing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which formed the basis of State's rights, declaring that the federal government had no right to exercise powers not specifically delegated to it by the states.

He formed the Democratic-Republican Party along with Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson in 1792.

Orange County was formed in 1852 from portions of Jefferson County.

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965.

Jefferson Airplane was formed in San Francisco during the summer of 1965, emerging from the San Francisco Bay folk music boom ( see American folk music revival ).

Jefferson County was formed from Berkeley County in 1801 and named for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States.

On January 8, 1801, Jefferson County was formed out of the county's eastern section.

Kitsap County was formed out of King County, Washington, and Jefferson County, Washington on January 16, 1857.

The southern boundary with Jefferson County is formed by Pine Island Bayou.

Sevier County as it is known today was formed on September 18, 1794 from part of neighboring Jefferson County, and has retained its original boundaries ever since.

The following counties have been formed from land that was once part of Lycoming County: Armstrong, Bradford, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Indiana, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Sullivan, Tioga, Venango, Warren, Forest, Elk and Cameron.

Carroll County was formed on December 25, 1832 from portions of Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Stark, and Tuscarawas counties.

The fourth county created in what is now Kentucky, it was formed from Jefferson County, Virginia in 1784 shortly after the Revolutionary War.

Jefferson County was organized in 1780 and one of the first three counties formed out of the original Kentucky County, which was still part of Virginia at the time ( the other two being Fayette and Lincoln ).

Jefferson County was formed in 1811.

Counties later formed all or in part from Clark County were: Crawford ( 1818 ), Decatur ( 1822 ), Fayette ( 1819 ), Floyd ( 1819 ), Franklin ( 1811 ), Harrison ( 1808 ), Jackson ( 1816 ), Jefferson ( 1811 ), Jennings ( 1817 ), Randolph ( 1818 ), Ripley ( 1816 ), Rush ( 1822 ), Scott ( 1820 ), Switzerland ( 1814 ), Union ( 1821 ), Washington ( 1814 ), and Wayne ( 1811 ).

Jefferson County is Arkansas's 21st county, formed on November 2, 1829, from portions of Arkansas and Pulaski counties, and named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States.

In the late Cretaceous Period ( roughly 81 to 74 million years ago ), molten rock ( magma ) rose to the Earth's surface in and near what later became Jefferson County and eventually formed an intrusive body of granitic rock up to thick and in diameter.

The town was formed in 1802 from the Town of Aurelius as the " Town of Jefferson ," while still part of Onondaga County.

The town was formed in 1806 and included a large portion of northern Jefferson County.