His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

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

The poems achieved international success ( Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson were great fans ) and were proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical writers such as Homer.

Jefferson Starship continued in one form or the other into the 80s, but never achieved the critical acclaim of its predecessor band.

Based on per capita income, Port Ludlow ranks 16th of 522 ranked areas in the state of Washington, and the highest rank achieved in Jefferson County.

Although they were one of the earliest and most important San Francisco bands to emerge from 1967's social phenomenon Summer of Love, the band never quite achieved the success of contemporaries such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Santana, with whom they had connections.

Jefferson later achieved the rank of lance-corporal.

Croly ’ s largest contribution to American political thought was to synthesize the two thinkers into one theory on government: Jefferson ’ s strong democracy achieved through Hamilton ’ s strong national government.

King Pleasure first achieved popularity by singing the Eddie Jefferson vocalese classic " Moody's Mood for Love ," based on a James Moody saxophone solo to " I'm in the Mood for Love " in 1949.

While remaining " neutral ," from early 1802 Jefferson allowed contraband goods and arms to reach Saint-Domingue during its slave rebellion and refused financial credit to France, aiding the slave and mulatto resistance that achieved independence in 1804.

Their sons both served in the Union Army, and the older one, John Wayles Jefferson, achieved the rank of colonel.

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights also filed suit asking that desegregation be achieved through merger of the Louisville, Jefferson County and Anchorage school systems, to overcome residential segregation and the inability of the city to expand by annexation and take in a more diverse area.

* 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.

As the Democratic-Republican ( then called Republican ) presidential candidate in 1796, Jefferson lost to John Adams, but had enough electoral votes to become Vice President ( 1797 – 1801 ).

Jefferson and Burr received the most electoral votes, but since neither had a majority, the election was decided in the Federalist-dominated House of Representatives.

Though the Federalists wanted neither Jefferson nor Burr to be president, Hamilton convinced his party that Jefferson would be a lesser political evil than Burr and that such scandal within the electoral process would undermine the new constitution.

However, the Federalist electors scattered their second votes, resulting in the Democratic-Republican Party presidential candidate, Thomas Jefferson, receiving the second highest number of electoral votes and thus being elected Vice President.

Jefferson came in second in the electoral college and became vice president.

* February 17 – 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.

Although Adams won the presidency, Thomas Jefferson received more electoral votes than Pinckney and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral balloting.

The Republicans had planned for one of the electors to abstain from casting his second vote for Aaron Burr, which would have led to Jefferson receiving one electoral vote more than Burr.

The plan, however, was bungled, resulting in a tied electoral vote between Jefferson and Burr.

When the electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective ; while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally-mandated form of a " List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each ".

< sup >( d )</ sup > A faithless elector in New York voted twice for Aaron Burr, but this violated electoral college rules and so the second vote was re-assigned to Thomas Jefferson.

Sitting Vice President George Clinton, who had served under Thomas Jefferson, was also a candidate for President, garnering six electoral votes from a wing of the Democratic-Republican Party that disapproved of James Madison.

" Clark was an Australian Jefferson, who, like the great American Republican, fought for Australian independence ; an autonomous judiciary ; a wider franchise and lower property qualifications ; fairer electoral boundaries ; checks and balances between the judicature, legislature and executive ; modern, liberal universities ; and a Commonwealth that was federal, independent and based on natural rights.

After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a majority of electoral votes, but tied one another with 73 votes each.

It is claimed sympathy at the sight of him convinced the weight of the New York electoral votes to be cast in favor of Thomas Jefferson.

* February 19, 1801 — United States presidential election, 1800: An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved when Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the House of Representatives

Despite Crawford's improved health ( and the support of former presidents Madison and Thomas Jefferson ), he finished third in the electoral vote, behind John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

Coached by Don Coryell ( with an offense nicknamed " Air Coryell "), featuring Fouts throwing to tight end Kellen Winslow and wide receivers John Jefferson and Charlie Joiner, they clinched their first playoff berth in 14 years with a 35 – 0 victory against the New Orleans Saints.

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 owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves under the three-fifths compromise.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

While there, on the recommendation of Congress, Sterett was presented by President Thomas Jefferson with a sword in gratitude of the victory over the Tripoli.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis credited Greenhow's information with securing victory at Manassas for the Confederate Army over the Union Army.

Ironically, Duke won his single victory for public office, a seat in the state House of Representatives, by narrowly defeating Treen's brother, John S. Treen, a home builder in Jefferson Parish.

The Confederate victory at Glasgow and the captured supplies proved a boost to the Confederates ' morale, especially after their failures to take St. Louis or Jefferson City.

Some Confederate politicians, including Jefferson Davis, believed the prospect of foreign recognition for the Confederacy would be made stronger by a military victory on Northern soil, but there is no evidence that Lee thought the South should base its military plans on this possibility.

The key to Bush's victory in the state was winning the largely populated counties such as Jefferson County, El Paso County, and Arapahoe County.

With Cartman's victory at hand, Stan and Kyle decided to give up and accept being Cartman's slaves, but Grandpa suddenly realizes that the drunken men still think that the entire campaign is a reenactment, so he gets Stan and Kyle dressed up as Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, just in time to prevent President Clinton from signing the surrender.

Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves as part of the population for representation under the three-fifths compromise.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics such as the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

The victory of Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans can be partially attributed to unpopular Adams administration policies, including the Alien and Sedition Acts, which curtailed the Bill of Rights guarantees of freedom of speech and the press.