With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.

Jefferson sent back a number of books on the subject and in return asked for a gift of apples, pecans and cranberries.

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

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

Desperate to avoid possible war with France, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1802 to negotiate a settlement, with instructions to go to London to negotiate an alliance if the talks in Paris failed.

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

In 1787, Jefferson sent for his youngest surviving child, Polly, then age nine.

Jefferson advised Letombe to stall any American envoys sent to Paris by instructing them to " listen to them and then drag out the negotiations at length and mollify them by the urbanity of the proceedings.

Jefferson had sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris in 1802 to try to buy the city of New Orleans and adjacent coastal areas.

Instead of retreating, Jefferson sent federal agents to secretly track down smugglers and violators.

He enlisted Francis Preston Blair to carry a message to Jefferson Davis ; Davis appointed three Commissioners, who were sent to Grant to arrange a peace conference.

He admired Thomas Jefferson and sent his nephew to the University of Virginia, which was founded and designed by Jefferson.

It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804.

In his 1793 almanac, Banneker included letters sent between Thomas Jefferson and himself.

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, to whom Jefferson sent Banneker's almanac, was a noted French mathematician and abolitionist.

On the same day that he replied to Banneker ( August 30, 1791 ), Jefferson sent a letter to the Marquis de Condorcet that contained the following paragraph relating to Banneker's race, abilities, almanac and work with Andrew Ellicott:

Before the trade deadline, the Spurs decided to part ways with Richard Jefferson and sent him to the Golden State Warriors for Stephen Jackson, who had been a member of the 2003 championship team.

During the early 19th century, several attempts to create a second medical school in Philadelphia had been stymied, largely due to the efforts of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine alumni In an attempt to circumvent that opposition, a group of Philadelphia physicians led by Dr. George McClellan sent a letter to the trustees of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania ( now Washington & Jefferson College ) in 1824, asking the College to establish a medical department in Philadelphia.

Maj. Jefferson Van Horne ’ s battalion, was sent for additional surveying.

Maj. Jefferson Van Horne was sent out in 1849 to establish Marcy's goal.

Maj. Jefferson Van Horne was sent out in 1849 to establish Marcy's goal.

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

* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

On April 18, 1802, Jefferson penned a letter to Robert Livingston.

Jefferson had authorized Livingston only to purchase New Orleans.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

The five prominent figures depicted are, from left to right, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.

It has been alleged that Livingston ’ s case was damaged by then-President Thomas Jefferson, who believed that Livingston had favored Aaron Burr in the presidential election of 1800, and that he had afterwards been a party to Burr ’ s schemes.

Jefferson made it impossible for Livingston to secure his title since by asserting the claim that such battures were the property of the Federal government, Livingston's title obtained from the Territorial Court notwithstanding.

In response, Livingston filed a civil lawsuit against Jefferson in 1810.

After the case was dismissed on 5 December 1811 by Chief Justice John Marshall due to lack of jurisdiction, Jefferson nonetheless in 1812 completed and published a pamphlet originally intended “ for the use of counsel ” in the case against Livingston, to which Livingston published a reply.

In 1776 the Second Continental Congress asked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to write the Declaration of Independence.

The Louisiana Purchase, completed in 1803, was negotiated by Robert Livingston during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson ; the territory was acquired from France for $ 15, 000, 000 ( equivalent to $ in present day terms ).

Livingston testified in the 2009 trial of Mose Jefferson, who was convicted on four counts related to bribery.

On June 5, 1776, the Congress appointed John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Rutledge, James Wilson, and Robert Livingston " to consider what is proper to be done with persons giving intelligence to the enemy or supplying them with provisions.

While President Thomas Jefferson doubted the legality of the purchase, the chief negotiator, Robert R. Livingston inserted language in the treaty providing for the Louisiana Purchase that he thought would be acceptable to congress.

On June 11, Congress appointed the " Committee of Five ," consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft an official declaration of independence.

In August 2009, The Livingston Group was mentioned in the bribery trial of Mose Jefferson, as one of TLG's clients, JRL Enterprises, was the supplier of education software which Mose Jefferson sold on commission under a separate contract .</ ref >

Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris.

While Minister to France during 1784 – 1789, Jefferson had opportunity to see some of the classical buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to discover the " modern " trends in French architecture then fashionable in Paris.

alt = Memorial plaque on the Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, marking where Jefferson lived while U. S. Minister to France.

While in Paris, Jefferson corresponded with many people who had important roles in the imminent French Revolution.

By chance, Sally Hemings, a younger sister of James, was chosen ; she lived in the Jefferson household in Paris for about two years.

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

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, " It really is an assembly of demigods.

Thomas Jefferson ( then the Secretary of State ) instructed the U. S. chargé d ' affaires in Paris ( William Short ) to contract with a local engraver to make the medals, since the first was to go to the Marquis de la Luzerne, the former French minister.

In 1787 Sally Hemings at the age of 14 was chosen to accompany Mary ( Polly ), the youngest daughter of Jefferson, to Paris to rejoin her father ; the widower was serving as the US Minister to France.

In 1784, the widower Thomas Jefferson was appointed the American envoy to France ; he took his oldest daughter Martha ( Patsy ) with him to Paris, as well as some of his personal slaves.

Jefferson paid wages to her and James while they were in Paris.

According to her son's memoir, Hemings became pregnant by Jefferson in Paris and agreed to return with him to the United States after he promised to free her children when they came of age.

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

He based his design on plans of cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, and Milan brought from Europe by Thomas Jefferson in 1788.

Fox, who occasionally corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and had met Benjamin Franklin in Paris, predicted that Britain had little practical hope of subduing the colonies, and interpreted the American cause approvingly as a struggle for liberty against the oppressive policies of a despotic and unaccountable executive.

Thomas Jefferson, ambassador in Paris at the time was familiar enough with him to note ," Warville is returned charmed with our country.

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