" 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 2009, the North Carolina Department of Transportation began widening 1. 1 miles of U. S. 421 ( King Street ) to a four to six-lane divided highway with a raised concrete median from U. S. 321 ( Hardin Street ) to east of N. C. 194 ( Jefferson Road ), including a new entrance and exit to the new Watauga High School, at a cost of $ 16. 2 million.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.

In 1803, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French nobleman, began to help negotiate with France at the request of Jefferson.

Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.

Jefferson began his childhood education under the direction of tutors at Tuckahoe along with the Randolph children.

In 1752, Jefferson began attending a local school run by a Scottish Presbyterian minister.

At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying Latin, Greek, and French ; he learned to ride horses, and began to appreciate the study of nature.

Always eager for more knowledge, Jefferson immediately began buying more books and continued learning throughout most of his life.

West lawn in October 2010 In 1768, Jefferson began construction of his primary residence, Monticello, on a hilltop overlooking a 5, 000 acre plantation.

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.

According to her son Madison Hemings, Sally and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris and she became pregnant.

Within a year of his inauguration, Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives.

Jefferson also permitted public tours of his house, which have continued ever since, except during wartime, and began the tradition of annual receptions on New Year's Day and on the Fourth of July.

In 1794, following his service as the first U. S. Secretary of State ( 1790 – 93 ), Jefferson began rebuilding his house based on the ideas he had acquired in Europe.

Over the next two years, Hot Tuna began to occupy more and more of Casady's and Kaukonen's time, contributing to the growing divisions within Jefferson Airplane that came to a head in 1972.

With the formal departure of Covington and addition of Kantner's old friend David Freiberg on vocals, Jefferson Airplane began a tour to promote the Long John Silver LP in the summer of 1972, their first concerts in over a year.

The arrival of I-10 in the early 1960s resulted in the demolition of some homes in the Old Metairie neighborhood, where development began in the 1920s, but resulted in even easier access to suburban East Jefferson.

Similar to the development trajectory observed by other U. S. suburban areas, Jefferson began to enjoy a significant employment base by the 1970s and 1980s, shedding its earlier role as a simple bedroom community.

St. Tammany Parish and, to a lesser extent, St. Charles Parish began to attract migrants from the inner city, and increasingly even from Jefferson Parish itself.

As Building began the School was originally going to be named Highview High School it was quickly changed and renamed Marion C. Moore High School after Marion C. Moore, one of the four original counselors in the Jefferson County schools and also a former teacher and principal.

Jefferson had an intricate and fast style of guitar playing and a particularly high-pitched voice.

King has always maintained that Jefferson was a huge influence on his singing and guitar playing.

* Thomas Jefferson Scribner was a familiar figure on the streets of Santa Cruz, California during the 1970s playing the musical saw.

From a remote set-up in the lobby of the Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont, Richardson performed for a total of five days, two hours and eight minutes, playing 1, 821 records and taking showers during five-minute newscasts.

* Dean Jefferson Brown-A basketball playing medical student from Los Angeles.

Hopkins continued his career as a studio musician, including playing with Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock.

In the closing credits of " The First and Last Supper " episode, Mel Stewart is incorrectly credited as playing George Jefferson.

Stewart was actually playing George's brother, Henry Jefferson, who was pretending to be George for most of the episode.

Both had been previously associated with Jefferson Airplane, Spence as the band's first drummer, playing on their first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, and Katz as the band's manager, but both had been dismissed by the group.

Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the twentieth century ( a 1925 report has the team being founded in 1898 ), the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing field on Jefferson Avenue.

This had been preceded by Stamps. com having various pictures on its E-stamps, including U. S. presidents Jefferson, Kennedy, Lincoln, TR and Washington, people playing various sports, and world landmarks.

Michael Sage Danton ( born as Michael Stephen Jefferson on October 21, 1980 ) is a Canadian ice hockey player currently playing for the Kramfors Alliance in the Swedish Division 1 league.

" Sonar " Lovacelli, compulsive gambler Seaman Stanley " Spots " Sylvesterson ( Jonathan Penner ), former U. S. Naval Academy basketball player Jefferson " R. J ." Jackson ( Duane Martin ), who has dreams of playing in the NBA, shock-prone ( and shock-addled ) electrician Seaman Nitro, and the not-so-culinary cook Seaman Buckman ( Ken Hudson Campbell ).

Jefferson Mays starred in the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, playing some forty roles.

He also recorded for several San Franciscan groups, playing on albums by Jefferson Airplane ( with whom he performed at the Woodstock Festival ), The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Steve Miller Band.

Jefferson Agustín Farfán Guadalupe ( born 26 October 1984 ) is a Peruvian football striker, playing for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga.

In 1996, Dryden was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the rest of Jefferson Airplane, playing with the band for the first time since 1970.

During this period, Leon joined the ensemble casts of two TV series, playing Jefferson Keane on HBO's Oz and Lawrence Hill on Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., in addition to briefly hosting his own late-night talk show, The L-Bow Room, on BET.

However, Kantner and Casady continued to perform onstage together during Hot Tuna concerts in late 1987 and early 1988, and the three did re-unite with Grace Slick and Jorma Kaukonen for a Jefferson Airplane reunion album and a reunion tour in 1989, along with Tim Gorman playing keyboards for the tour.

Martin is an alumnus of Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, where he led his school to two state basketball championships in 1942 and 1943 .< sup ></ sup > He is also a graduate of University of Texas at Austin, where he set a record in 1949 for putting up 49 points playing for the Texas Longhorns against the opposing Texas Christian University team.

As Jackson said in a 1990 interview in Bass Player magazine .“ Casady, whom I'd first heard on Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow album in late 1966, had a big, rich, metallic sound with a full bottom and a curious, guitaristic way of playing that I was immediately drawn to.