Hopkins County Veterans Affairs Officer is Captain Joe Reid Scott, USN ( retired ) His office is in the Courthouse Annex, 128-A Jefferson St., Sulphur Springs, TX 75482.

The flag was based on a concept by retired Army Special Forces First Sergeant Bill Kendall of Jefferson, Iowa, who designed a flag to honor Medal of Honor recipient Captain Darrell Lindsey, a B-26 pilot from Jefferson who was killed in World War II.

After one term, and despite President Houston's pleas, Anderson retired in 1842 to practice law in San Augustine with Royal T. Wheeler ; he eventually formed a partnership with J. Pinckney Henderson and Thomas Jefferson Rusk.

After his retirement from baseball, the Jefferson County, Wisconsin native retired in Newberg, Oregon where he farmed twenty acres of land and became the president of a local fruit growers ' association.

Gelston was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson Collector of the Port of New York in 1801, and held that post until 1821 when he retired.

In 1875 he retired to his estate in Jefferson, Wisconsin and devoted himself to farming and horticulture.

In addition, a second " amateur detective ", the retired head of Scotland Yard, Sir Henry Clithering, gets involved at the request of Conway Jefferson.

On September 20, 2004, Perry appointed Jefferson the successor to Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips, who had retired from the Court a few weeks earlier after nearly seventeen years as chief.

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

In early June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them.

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.

* Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson wrote favorably in response to Jackson in December 1823 and extended a preemptive welcome to Monticello: " I recall with pleasure the remembrance of our joint labors while in the Senate together in times of great trial and of hard battling, battles indeed of words, not of blood, as those you have since fought so much for your own glory & that of your country ; with the assurance that my attamts continue undiminished, accept that of my great respect & consideration.

" Coles used the opinion of Thomas Gilmer to back himself up ; Gilmer said Jefferson told him at Monticello before the election of Adams in 1825: " One might as well make a sailor of a cock, or a soldier of a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson.

Although Thomas Jefferson had peach trees at Monticello, United States farmers did not begin commercial production until the 19th century in Maryland, Delaware, Georgia and finally Virginia.

Monticello is the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, who inherited it.

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.

In 1987 Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia, also designed by Jefferson, were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

After his wife's death in 1782, Jefferson left Monticello in 1784 to serve as Minister of the United States to France.

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

Like his uncle, Jefferson Levy commissioned repairs, restoration and preservation at Monticello, which had been deteriorating seriously while the lawsuits wound their way through the courts in New York and Virginia.

Mulberry Row was situated three-hundred feet ( 100 m ) south of Monticello, with the slave quarters facing the Jefferson mansion.

Six families and their descendants are featured in the exhibit, Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty ( January to October 2012 ) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, which also examines Jefferson as slaveholder.

Jefferson grave at Monticello

In addition to growing flowers for display and producing crops for eating, Jefferson used the gardens of Monticello for experimenting with different species.

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.

In 2003 Monticello welcomed a reunion of descendants of Jefferson from both the Wayles ' and Hemings ' sides of the family.

* Monticello Association, private lineage society of Jefferson descendants

*" Life Portrait of Thomas Jefferson ", broadcast from Monticello from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits

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.

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

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.

This delay allowed Jefferson Davis finally to send reinforcements from the garrisons of coastal cities and another highly rated but prickly general, Braxton Bragg, to help organize the western forces.

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.

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.

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

In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

Label of a Blind Lemon Jefferson Paramount record from 1926

In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

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

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.

He supported Alexander Hamilton's programs to pay off all state and national debt, to implement an effective tax system and to create a national bank ( despite opposition from Thomas Jefferson ).

Jefferson's political actions, his support of Philip Freneau's National Gazette, and his attempt to undermine Hamilton, nearly led George Washington to dismiss Jefferson from his cabinet.

One of three members of the committee, Thomas Jefferson proposed that one side of the seal feature Hengist and Horsa, " the Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we assumed.

Working closely with Madison and Jefferson, Bishop Madison helped lead the College through the changes involving separation from both Great Britain and the Church of England.

" Years earlier he had pored over crates of books that Jefferson sent him from France on various forms of government.

Jefferson went further, urging states to secede if necessary, though Madison convinced Jefferson to back down from this extreme view.

Gallatin, a carry over from the Jefferson Administration, in the Treasury.

After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress.

Jefferson did not attempt to obtain another treaty, and as a result, the two nations moved from peace toward the War of 1812.

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