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.

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* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

Multiple anagramming is a technique used to solve some kinds of cryptograms, such as a permutation cipher, a transposition cipher, and the Jefferson disk.

* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

* Blind Lemon Jefferson is the featured musician on a State of Texas license plate.

Thomas Jefferson called these inalienable rights: "... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

The English word catenary is usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson,

* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Particularly heated is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.

For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.

* 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U. S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

* 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

* 1852 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

* 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.

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

Jefferson likely moved to Deep Ellum in a more permanent fashion by 1917, where he met Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as T-Bone Walker.

In particular, his treatment of the Biblical gospels which he titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, but which subsequently became more commonly known as the Jefferson Bible, exhibits a strong deist tendency of stripping away all supernatural and dogmatic references from the Christ story.

As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, Madison served in the Virginia state legislature ( 1776 – 79 ), where he became known as a protégé of the delegate Thomas Jefferson.

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

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

In keeping with his trade and acculturation policy, Jefferson kept Benjamin Hawkins as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southeastern peoples, who became known as the Five Civilized Tribes for their adoption of European-American ways.

The services that run along this line are named after the branches they use ; trains beyond Hicksville ( where the Port Jefferson Branch splits ), are known as Ronkonkoma Branch and the Greenport Branch trains.

Criminals often took on ( or were given ) pseudonyms, such as famed con man Jefferson R. Smith, who was known as Soapy Smith.

He and his cohorts created what became known as " The Red Dog Experience ", featuring previously unknown musical acts — Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans, and others — who played in the completely refurbished, intimate setting of Virginia City's Red Dog Saloon.

Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream.

In the fall of 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a commemoration of the burial ground, in which the names of known slaves of Monticello were read aloud.

* Joey Covington ( born 1945 ), American drummer, best known for his involvements with Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson City is on the northern edge of the Ozark Plateau on the southern side of the Missouri River near the geographic center of the state, in a region known as Mid-Missouri.

The Columbine High School massacre ( often known simply as Columbine ) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.

Johnson's story is the basis of the play and subsequent 1970 movie The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones as Johnson ( known as Jack Jefferson in the movie ), and Jane Alexander as his love interest.

The few disease-resistant selections made available to the public as yet include ' Valley Forge ', ' New Harmony ', ' Princeton ', ' Jefferson ', and a set of six different clones collectively known as ' American Liberty '.

Within Virginia, U. S. 1 is called Jefferson Davis Highway by state law, although most of the Fairfax County portion, except Lorton, is better known as Richmond Highway.

In turn, the success of the Lincoln Highway and the resulting economic boost to the governments, businesses and citizens along its route inspired the creation of many other named long-distance roads ( known as National Auto Trails ), such as the Yellowstone Trail, National Old Trails Road, Dixie Highway, Jefferson Highway, Bankhead Highway, Jackson Highway, Meridian Highway and Victory Highway.

The Fantasy Faire & Magic Festival was held at Devonshire Downs ( sometimes known as Devonshire Meadows ) in 1967, featuring music acts such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, The Grassroots, Canned Heat, and Iron Butterfly.

Jefferson Health System was founded in 1995 when Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Main Line Health System signed an agreement establishing a new, nonprofit, corporate entity known as the Jefferson Health System.

Historians have traditionally regarded the great debates of the Seventeen Nineties as polarizing the issues of centralized vs. limited government, with Hamilton and the nationalists supporting the former and Jefferson and Madison upholding the latter position.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jefferson would have preferred to have a constitutional amendment authorizing the purchase, but did not have time nor was he required to do so.

Although the new treaty called for ten more years of trade between the U. S. and the British Empire, and gave American merchants certain guarantees that would have been good for business, Jefferson refused to give up the potential weapon of commercial warfare against Britain and was unhappy that it did not end the hated British practice of impressment of American sailors.

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 ' ...

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

Jefferson believed that a U. S. President did not have the authority to make such a deal: it was not specified in the Constitution.

In the case of certain key figures ( particularly Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln ), they have devoted considerable attention to the subject.

Jefferson ( 1, 340 ), Winslow ( 1, 290 ), and Joiner ( 1, 132 ) became the first trio on the same team to have 1, 000 yards receiving in a season.

Although some historians have noted that the evidence can also support other possible fathers, most have concluded that Jefferson had a long relationship with Hemings and fathered one or more of her children.

Jefferson increasingly believed the problem was the traders and merchants who showed their lack of " republican virtue " by not complying and maintained until his death that had the embargo been lawfully observed by all US citizens it would have avoided war which after its repeal, three days before his term ended, soon followed in 1812.

Historians have generally criticized Jefferson for his embargo policy.

Reed set out to put into practical effect his dictum that " The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch "; this was accomplished by carefully studying the existing procedures of the U. S. House, most dating to the original designs written by Thomas Jefferson.