Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

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

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

* Presidents Park – Freshmen – Completed in 1989, and housing approximately 1, 100 students in twelve halls ( Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Harrison, Lincoln, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Monroe, Washington ).

On his return to the United States Adams was appointed a Commissioner of Monetary Affairs in Boston by a Federal District Judge, however, Thomas Jefferson rescinded this appointment.

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.

* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

* 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.

The historian Clinton Rossiter regarded Madison's performance as " a combination of learning, experience, purpose, and imagination that not even Adams or Jefferson could have equaled.

Ex-Presidents Jefferson and Madison counseled Monroe to accept the offer, but Adams advised, " It would be more candid ... to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war.

His death came 55 years after the U. S. Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of two other Founding Fathers who became Presidents: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Noah protested and gained letters from Adams, Jefferson, and Madison supporting church-state separation and tolerance for Jews.

In the presidential election of 1800, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams, becoming the third President of the United States.

Secretary of State Madison was ordered by President Jefferson to withhold the commissions made at the last minute by outgoing President Adams.

The " Founding Fathers " were strong advocates of republican values, especially Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

Elected Vice President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists, Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.

When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, Adams ensured that Jefferson was appointed to the five-man committee to write a declaration in support of the resolution.

The committee in general, and Jefferson in particular, thought Adams should write the document.

Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson, who was reluctant to take the assignment, and promised to consult with the younger man.

The university, in its infancy, was established on the ideals of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.

Other philosophical foundations were established by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Jefferson.

With the permission of President Thomas Jefferson, Astor established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808.

The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.

The ranking of established professions in the United States based on the above milestones shows surveying first ( George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were all land surveyors before entering politics ), followed by medicine, actuarial science, law, dentistry, civil engineering, logistics, architecture and accounting.

On March 16, 1802, Jefferson signed the Military Peace Establishment Act, directing that a corps of engineers be established and " constitute a Military Academy.

Jefferson disliked the European system of established churches and called for a wall of separation between church and state at the federal level.

( But this was hardly a new idea ; Roger Williams ( 1603 – 1683 ), the Puritan-turned-Baptist founder of Rhode Island, had established such a wall at the state level about a century before Jefferson was born, and extended freedom of religion to Quakers and Jews.

When counties were established in the Province of New York in 1683, the present Jefferson County was part of Albany County.

Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819, by the Alabama Legislature.

Except for cities such as Birmingham that have established their own local school districts, all parts of Jefferson County are served by Jefferson County Board of Education.

Since then, other established networks have joined Jefferson Health System as founding members, which at one point included the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Frankford Health Care System ( now Aria Health ), and still retains Magee Rehabilitation Hospital as a member.

He also studied creative writing at Thomas Jefferson High School in a special program established by poet Elias Lieberman.

Jefferson County was established as a Tennessee county on June 11, 1792.

The county was established by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 9, 1797, from a part of Jefferson County, Tennessee.

Shortly thereafter, on July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county established in Tennessee, when the Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and Jefferson counties.

It was established on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and named for then-President Thomas Jefferson.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Jefferson County is represented by the prefix 33 ( it had the thirty-third-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

Oldham County was established on December 15, 1823 from parts of Henry, Jefferson, and Shelby Counties.

The county was established in 1913, and was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third U. S. President.

Jefferson Parish was named in honor of U. S. President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia when the parish was established by the Louisiana Legislature on February 11, 1825, a year before Jefferson died.