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.

Thomas Jefferson had " potatoes served in the French manner " at a White House dinner in 1802.

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.

With the White House still under construction, she advised as to its furnishings and sometimes served as First Lady for ceremonial functions for President Thomas Jefferson, a widower and their friend.

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

He served on the college's Board of Visitors under Jefferson and under the second rector James Madison, also a former president, almost until his death.

Three of Jefferson ’ s older brothers served during the War of 1812.

#* Jefferson was raised Anglican and served as a vestryman prior to the American Revolution, but as an adult he did not hold to the tenets of this church.

During the Civil War, Lee originally served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis.

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

Jefferson served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress beginning in June 1775, soon after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Jefferson had also served on the committee appointed to draw up the rules of order for the Continental Congress in 1776.

Men such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson espoused its tenets, while at the same time arguing that religion served the useful purpose of " social control ".

Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804.

Sitting Vice President George Clinton, who had served under Thomas Jefferson, was also a candidate for President, garnering six electoral votes from a wing of the Democratic-Republican Party that disapproved of James Madison.

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

It was named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, who served from 1801 to 1809.

Jefferson County is served by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

Except for cities such as Birmingham that have established their own local school districts, all parts of Jefferson County are served by Jefferson County Board of Education.

The county was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature and named for Jefferson Parrish Kidder, who served as a delegate to the United States Congress from Dakota Territory between 1875 to 1879 and as an associate justice of the territorial supreme court between 1865-1875 and 1879-1883.

The county is named for Albert Gallatin, a Swiss native who served as Secretary of the Treasury for President Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson also permitted public tours of his house, which have continued ever since, except during wartime, and began the tradition of annual receptions on New Year's Day and on the Fourth of July.

Until 1980, coins minted at Philadelphia bore no mint mark, with the exceptions of the Susan B. Anthony dollar and the wartime Jefferson nickel.

In 1911, Freeman came into possession of a cache of long-lost wartime communications between Robert E. Lee and Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

The museum opened as the American Museum of Atomic Energy in 1949 in an old wartime cafeteria on Jefferson Circle.

As governor he considered using the Virginia militia to force the outcome in favor of Jefferson.

In 1780 Jefferson as governor received numerous questions about Virginia from French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois, who was gathering pertinent data on the United States.

As governor of Virginia ( 1780 – 1781 ) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

" In New York, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans.

* December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.

Political candidates frequently campaigned at Greensboro, including, in 1851 Jefferson Davis who was seeking the office of governor.

The county is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time.

Claude Kirkpatrick, a member of the Louisiana House of Repesentatives from Jefferson Davis Parish from 1952 – 1960, a candidate for governor in 1963, and the instigator of Toledo Bend Reservoir was born in Glenmora but moved to Lake Charles when he was six years of age.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

Thomas Jefferson, who had just finished his final term as Virginia's governor, responded to this query with a manuscript that later became his famous " Notes on the State of Virginia ".

" During the war, Hemings and other household slaves had been taken by Jefferson to Richmond to work for him after he was elected as governor of Virginia.

Five months after the killing of his brother Jesse in 1882, Frank James boarded a train to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he had an appointment with the governor in the state capitol.

In 1807, Jefferson appointed him governor of the Louisiana Territory ; he settled in St. Louis.

President Thomas Jefferson appointed him fourth governor of Mississippi Territory.

Arthur St. Clair was the territory's governor until November 1802, when President Thomas Jefferson removed him from office and appointed Charles Willing Byrd, who served the position until Ohio became a state and elected its first governor, Edward Tiffin, on March 3, 1803.

The secession movement came to an abrupt end, though not before John C. Childs of Yreka was inaugurated as the governor of the State of Jefferson.

Because most early Kentuckians were Virginians, they naturally allied with the Democratic-Republicans, the party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ; the latter was a cousin of George Madison, the state's sixth governor.

He was commanding General of the Lower Virginia Militia, and succeeded Thomas Jefferson as governor of Virginia.

The University of Kentucky boasts seven governors, including current Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear, former Governor of Ohio Ted Strickland, current Governor of North Carolina Beverly Perdue, and former governors Ernie Fletcher, Paul E. Patton and Tom Jefferson Terral, and former governor, U. S. Senator and Commissioner of Major League Baseball Albert " Happy " Chandler.

He was only the second governor in Arkansas history to have been denied a second term — the first was Tom Jefferson Terral, who was defeated in 1926.

Jefferson had already decided on the returning explorer and fellow Virginian Meriwether Lewis as governor of the huge new Louisiana Territory, which approximately equaled the size of the existing United States.

Foote served in the Senate from March 4, 1847, until January 8, 1852, when he resigned to become governor after defeating Jefferson Davis in the election of 1851.

Foster defeated black Democratic candidates in both of his campaigns for governor — Cleo Fields in 1995 and Congressman William Jefferson in 1999.