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

Some have said that Jefferson died from a heart attack after being attacked by a dog in the middle of the night.

Samuel died on July 4, 1824, when Jefferson was 16 years old.

Jefferson and Varina Howell Davis had six children ; three died before reaching adulthood.

#*:" Like many others of his time ( he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America ), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership.

After Martha Jefferson, his wife of eleven years, died in 1782, Jefferson remained a widower for the rest of his life ; his marriage produced six children, with only two surviving to adulthood.

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

Peter Jefferson died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter's two sons ; Thomas and Randolph.

After her father John Wayles died in 1773, Martha and her husband Jefferson inherited his 135 slaves, and the debts of his estate.

After Thomas Ludwell Lee died in 1778 Jefferson was given the task of studying and revising the state's laws.

When his wife died, friends such as John Adams noted that Jefferson seemed so depressed that he might be suicidal.

On July 4 at ten minutes before one o ' clock Jefferson died at the age of 83, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and a few hours before John Adams whose last words were, " Independence forever " and " Thomas Jefferson survives.

Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family, Jefferson had many financial problems, and died deeply in debt.

Jefferson died on July 4, 1826.

After Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, his only surviving daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph inherited Monticello.

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.

After Wayles died in 1773, his daughter Martha and Jefferson inherited the Hemings family as among 135 slaves from his estate, as well as 11, 000 acres of land.

After Lucy died of whooping cough, in 1787 Jefferson sent for his surviving daughter, nine-year-old Maria ( Polly ) Jefferson, to live with him.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

As a Polonia center, due to the city's having a very large Polish population, Chicago celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in the Jefferson Park area.

Since 1968, the Joseph Jefferson Awards are given annually to acknowledge excellence in theater in the Chicago area.

* Kennedy Rapid Transit Stations ( Jefferson Park to Logan Square ), Myron Goldsmith, Chicago, Illinois, 1970

The Gateway Theatre ( Chicago, Illinois ) | Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park, Chicago was a Movie palace for the Balaban and Katz theater chain.

After first touring a small underdeveloped town called Chicago in northern Illinois, he traveled here, evaluated the prospects of Port Jefferson, and chose to invest here.

However, local residents did refer to Port Jefferson as ' Little Chicago ' for a number of years.

These included the sheep-breeding Moncreiffe brothers ( from Clan Moncreiffe of the Scottish Highlands ), Oliver Wallop ( a member of the English Nobility ), Goelet Gallatin ( a descendant of Albert Gallatin US Treasury Secretary under Thomas Jefferson ), and Bradford Brinton ( a businessman from Chicago ).

Musicians who exemplified this era include The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, and, in their early years, Chicago.

Works are in many major collections, including the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; Bank of Ireland ; Allied Irish Banks ; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin ; Ulster Museum, Belfast ; Waterford Museum ; Office of Public Works, Dublin ; First National Bank of Chicago ; First National City Bank of New York ; An Chomhairle Ealaíon / The Irish Arts Council ; KLM Airlines Headquarters, New York ; Irish Management Institute, Dublin ; Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd .; Norman B. Arnoff, New York ; University College, Dublin, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

She was in Misalliance in Chicago with Irene Worth, ( earning the Sarah Siddons and Joseph Jefferson awards ), Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Festival, California Suite, The King and I, Hellzapoppin, Les Dames du Jeudi, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Cherry Orchard.

In this era, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5 and club DJs like Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, and Marshall Jefferson played various styles of dance music, including older disco records, newer Italo Disco, hip hop and electro funk tracks, as well as electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and recent danceable R & B productions in the genre now known as boogie.

During the first two decades of the 20th century, the Chicago neighborhood of Jefferson Park, Chicago | Jefferson Park was the point of initial settlement for many Volga German immigrants

* The Frightful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes ( March 24, 1905, Joseph Jefferson Holland Benefit, Metropolitan Opera House ; later retitled The Harrowing Predicament of Sherlock Holmes and finally The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, published by Ben Abramson of The Argus Book Shop in Chicago in 1955 )

Podesta spent most of his early years in Chicago, where he was born, growing up in the neighborhood of Jefferson Park on the city's Northwest Side.

A roll-call of major Chicago producers including Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard, Adonis, Phuture's DJ Pierre and Chip E. all debuted their compositions at The Music Box.

* " The Joseph Jefferson Award " Best Chicago Theatre Actress ( 1968 )

He began his sentence as prisoner number 40892-424 at the minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood ( located near the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado in unincorporated Jefferson County ) on Thursday, March 15, 2012, after saying a final goodbye to his supporters at his Chicago residence the day before.

He also received honorary doctorate degrees from Florida A & M University, Texas Southern University, Virginia State University, Morgan State University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Tuskegee Institute, Bowie State College, Thomas Jefferson University, Chicago State University, Georgian Court University, Drexel University, Kent State University, Central State University and the University of the Sciences.

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.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

In purchasing Louisiana, Jefferson had to adopt Hamilton's broad construction of the Constitution, and so did Madison in advocating the rechartering of Hamilton's bank, which he had so strenuously opposed at its inception, and in adopting a Hamiltonian protective tariff.

New Englanders were a bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '': ``

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.

Also, as in the previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis complaining about his direct superior.

Though the resolutions followed the " interposition " approach of James Madison, Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for Kentucky to secede.

Jefferson's biographer Dumas Malone argued that this might have gotten Jefferson impeached for treason, had his actions become known at the time.

In writing the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson warned that, " unless arrested at the threshold ," the Alien and Sedition Acts would " necessarily drive these states into revolution and blood.

William Jefferson Blythe III, in 1950 at age four

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

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.

Jefferson began playing the guitar in his early teens, and soon after he began performing at picnics and parties.

In fact, in May 1926, Paramount had Jefferson re-record his hits " Got the Blues " and " Long Lonesome Blues " in the superior facilities at Marsh Laboratories, and subsequent releases used that version.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

T-Bone Walker states that as a boy, he was employed by Jefferson to lead him around the streets of Dallas ; he would have been of the appropriate age at the time.

Jefferson was buried at Wortham Negro Cemetery ( later Wortham Black Cemetery ).

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.

Polish language productions for Chicago's large Polish speaking population can be seen at the historic Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.