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

" 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.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.

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.

The three boys all learned to play the fiddle ( Jefferson played the violin ).

* Jefferson in Paris, a 1995 film, portrayed the early relationship between Sally Hemings ( played by Thandie Newton ) and Jefferson ( Nick Nolte ).

* Papa John Creach, Musician, violinist who played with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna

Joseph Jefferson Jackson ( July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951 ), nicknamed " Shoeless Joe ", was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century.

Freiberg had known and played with Kantner on the folk circuit in the early 1960s and also appeared on Blows Against the Empire, and he had joined Jefferson Airplane in time to appear on their live LP Thirty Seconds over Winterland.

Sears had worked on three of Rod Stewart's early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on Smiler, Stewart's last album made in London, so Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter Kaukonen first played with the band early in 1974 before Sears returned to the States and replaced him in Jefferson Starship in June 1974.

( Schuster, along with horn player David Farey, had played on Jefferson Starship's 1978 tour, and he had also appeared on Freedom At Point Zero.

Van Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Howlin ' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, the Youngbloods, John Hammond, Jr., The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Michael Bloomfield, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, The Chambers Brothers, Canned Heat, The Fugs, Odetta, Country Joe and the Fish, all played there.

* March 2 – On an All in the Family episode, Archie and Edith get brand new next-door neighbors — Michael and Gloria's best friend, Lionel Jefferson ( played by Mike Evans ) and his parents.

Jefferson may have heard the term from Huddie " Lead Belly " Ledbetter, who played frequently with Jefferson.

It premiered at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City on October 15, 1858, and the title character was first played by Joseph Jefferson.

The Association's football team, played several games in 1899, including victorious contests against the Pioneer Athletic Association, Jefferson Medical College, the Philadelphia Athletic Club and a team from Atlantic City.

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.

Haight-Ashbury became a countercultural capital, and bands like Jefferson Airplane, Loading Zone, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, The Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead helped to launch the blues-and folk-rock scene ; other bands, like Moby Grape and The Flamin ' Groovies used a more country-influenced sound, while Cold Blood incorporated R & B and Orkustra played a sort of freeform psychedelia.

" Adams, who had played a major role in getting the Continental Congress to declare independence in 1776, had become somewhat resentful that Jefferson now received most of the praise for independence just because he had written the now-revered document announcing it.

Sam Waterston, who voiced Abraham Lincoln here, later played Thomas Jefferson in Burns ' films about Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Papa John Creach was a blues violinist who played for Jefferson Airplane ( 1970 – 1975 ), Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship-The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars ( 1979 – 1984 ), The Dinosaurs ( 1982 – 1989 ), and Steve Taylor.

All three brothers learned to play the violin ( Jefferson also is known to have regularly played.

The younger Randolph was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson, his cousin, with whom he often played violin.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

* 1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, American daughter of Thomas Jefferson ( d. 1836 )

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.

After practicing as a circuit lawyer for several years, Jefferson married the 23-year-old widow Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772.

Martha Jefferson was attractive, gracious and popular with her friends ; she was a frequent hostess for Jefferson and managed the large household.

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

Later in life, Martha Jefferson suffered from diabetes and ill health, and frequent childbirth further weakened her.

Jefferson moved into the South Pavilion ( an outbuilding ) in 1770, where his new wife, Martha, joined him in 1772.

In 1831 Monticello was sold by Martha Jefferson and the surviving Jefferson heirs to James Turner Barclay, and in 1834 Barclay in turn sold the house and remaining land to Uriah P. Levy.

* October 19 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson ( d. 1782 )

At Jefferson's direction, he was buried on the grounds, an area now designated as the Monticello Cemetery, which is owned by the Monticello Association, a lineage society of his descendants through Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.

After Jefferson's death, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph sold the property.

Jefferson moved into the South Pavilion ( an outbuilding ) in 1770, where his new wife Martha Wayles Skelton joined him in 1772.

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

As the historian Edmund S. Morgan has noted, " Hemings herself was withheld from auction and freed at last by Jefferson ’ s daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, who was, of course, her niece.

They were half-siblings to his daughters ; the first, Martha Wayles ( named after her mother, John Wayles ' first wife ), married the young planter Thomas Jefferson.

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.

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.

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

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

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

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.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Jefferson Davis considered him the best general in the country ; this was two months before the emergence of Robert E. Lee as the pre-eminent general of the Confederacy.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

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

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

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind near Coutchman, Texas in Freestone County, near present-day Wortham, Texas.

Jefferson was one of eight children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson.

In Dallas, Jefferson was one of the earliest and most prominent figures in the blues movement developing in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas.

Also, by the early 1920s, Jefferson was earning enough money for his musical performances to support a wife, and possibly a child.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

Jefferson was reputedly unhappy with his royalties ( although Williams said that Jefferson had a bank account containing as much as $ 1500 ).