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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 ).
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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.
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 ).
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Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.
" Due to their opposition to Hamilton, Jefferson and James Madison organized and led the anti-administration party ( called Republican, and known later as Democratic-Republican ).
Jefferson believed educating people was a good way to establish an organized society.
The Democratic-Republican Party, is the name used by political scientists to describe the political Party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791.
Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalists, a nationwide party organized by Hamilton.
United Confederate Veterans organized a chapter known as the " William P. Rogers Camp " in San Saba County after the death in 1889 of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
When first settled, the area that presently constitutes Portage County was part of the original Jefferson County, which had been organized in 1797.
The county was organized in 1818 and named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson.
The following month, the Jefferson Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties for the new territory, including St. Vrain County.
The following month, the Jefferson Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties for the new territory, including Jefferson County.
The Jefferson Territory never received federal sanction, but during his last week in office, President James Buchanan signed an act which organized the Territory of Colorado on February 28, 1861.
That November 1, the new Colorado General Assembly organized the 17 original counties of Colorado, including a new Jefferson County.
The following month, the Jefferson Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties for the new territory including El Paso County.
The following month, the Jefferson Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties for the new territory, including a new Arrappahoe County.
The outcome was that as the miners in the council moved north one by one the control of the town reverted to the more unscrupulous among the newcomers and locals organized by Jefferson Randolph " Soapy " Smith.
The town was organized in 1803 from the town of Mexico ( now in Oswego County ) before the creation of Jefferson County.
Hermon was originally organized under the name of Depeau, after Francis Depeau, once proprietor of a large tract of land in Jefferson county.
Headlined and organized by The Rolling Stones, it also featured, in order of appearance: Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act.
The Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson was organized on October 24, 1859, but the new territory failed to secure federal sanction.
One of the most infamous confidence men of the nineteenth century, Jefferson Randolph Smith, known as Soapy Smith, led organized gangs of shell men throughout the mid-western United States, and later in Alaska.
Originally organized in 1872 from adjacent townships ( Jefferson, Leyden and Niles ) as a village, and named after Henry Ward Beecher's novel Norwood, or Village Life in New England ( 1868 ), Norwood Park was annexed to the City of Chicago in 1893.
A rival group of land speculators from Virginia, the Loyal Company of Virginia, was organized about the same time, and included influential Virginians such as Thomas Walker and Peter Jefferson ( father of Thomas Jefferson ).
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