In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

The purchase of the territory of Louisiana took place during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

Undercutting them, Jefferson took up the banner and threatened an alliance with Britain, although relations were uneasy in that direction.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

These took Jefferson and other co-executors of the estate years to pay off, which contributed to his financial problems.

The Judiciary Act of 1801 increased the number of courts to permit the Federalist President John Adams to appoint a number of Federalist judges before Thomas Jefferson took office.

The followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the name " Republicans "; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.

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

His nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy took over the property in 1879 ; he also invested considerable money to restore and preserve it.

Levy's heirs argued over his estate, but their lawsuits were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator and member of Congress, bought out the other heirs for $ 10, 050, and took control of the property.

Further attention came also while Saarinen was still working for his father, when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, not completed until the 1960s.

Some blacks in the U. S. took on the surname Freeman, while others adopted the names of popular historical or contemporary figures of social importance, such as former presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson.

While attending Thomas Jefferson High School, he took little interest in academics, spending most of his time focusing on " broads, mouthing off, and doodling ".

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.

In the mid-1960s, a softball game between Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead took place at Central Field, a public downtown baseball field.

The 1999 film Stir of Echoes starring Kevin James had scenes shot on location in Joliet at the Rialto Square Theatre ( the hypnotism scenes in which James saw the word " Dig " on the movie screen ), at the corner of Scott Street and Washington, and at the old Menards that took over the Wieboltd's building at Jefferson Square Mall.

Precisely when the settlement became known as Jeffersonville is unclear, but it was probably around 1801, the year in which President Thomas Jefferson took office.

Eventually Lincoln University, a then all-Negro college in Jefferson City, took control of the school.

) He is of no known relation to the 42nd President, Bill Clinton, who was born William Jefferson Blythe III but took the surname of his stepfather.

Indeed, the election of 1800 did result in a tie between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, and it took more than 30 ballots in the House of Representatives before Jefferson became president and Burr his vice president ( as mandated by the election rules at the time ).

Indeed, while other thinkers, from Thomas Jefferson to Federalist John Adams, agonized over the need for a virtuous citizenry, Taylor took the view that ' the principles of a society may be virtuous, though the individuals composing it are vicious.

Taylor agreed with Jefferson that the institution was an evil, but took issue with Jefferson's repeated references to the specific cruelties of slavery, arguing that " slaves are docile, useful and happy, if they are well managed ," and that " the individual is restrained by his property in the slave, and susceptible of humanity.

When Jefferson took office, he gained renewal of the commercial articles that had greatly benefited American shipping.

He took the oath of office on January 14, 1963, standing on the gold star marking the spot where, nearly 102 years earlier, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America.

Stephens officially served in office eight days longer than President Jefferson Davis ; he took his oath seven days before Davis ' inauguration and was captured the day after Davis.

As with almost every President of the United States, upon taking the oath on February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis added the words " So help me God " to the end of the oath.

Knott, the elected Attorney General, was still in Jefferson City but soon found himself under arrest and then deposed for refusing to take an oath to the second state government.

The Federalists made a comeback in the Northeast by attacking the embargo, which was allowed to expire just as Jefferson was leaving office.

Although the election was decided on February 17, 1801, Jefferson did not take office until March 4, 1801.

Years before holding his first office, Jefferson had spent much time researching procedures and rules for governing bodies.

Shortly before leaving office, in March 1809, Jefferson signed the repeal of the disastrous Embargo.

The presidential authority to commission officers would have a large impact on the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, where outgoing Federalist President John Adams feverishly signed many commissions to the judiciary on his final day in office, hoping to, as incoming Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson put it, " into the judiciary as a stronghold.

John Jay had been serving in as Secretary of Foreign Affairs as a holdover from the Confederation since before Washington had taken office and would continue in that capacity until Jefferson returned from Europe many months later.

Shortly before leaving office, in March 1809, Jefferson signed the repeal of the failed Embargo.

Brown's mother had filed numerous complaints with the Jefferson County Sheriff's office concerning Harris, thinking of him as being dangerous.

Thomas Jefferson also contributed to the convention of a two-term limit when he wrote in 1807, " if some termination to the services of the chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally four years, will in fact become for life.

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.

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

The Jefferson Territory never received federal sanction, but during his last week in office, President James Buchanan signed an act which organized the Territory of Colorado on February 28, 1861.

In East Jefferson, the Causeway Boulevard corridor grew into a commercial office node, while the Elmwood neighborhood developed as a center for light manufacturing and distribution.

Although it is unknown when the settlement became known as Jeffersonville, the post office was established with this name on March 9, 1866 and was named for Thomas Jefferson.

The office was named for the first postmaster, Jefferson Jaqruth.

George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 ( and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office ).

The Sterne Fountain was given to the city in 1913 to honor the contribution of Jacob and Ernestine Sterne, a Jewish couple who settled in Jefferson before the Civil War and became prominent citizens who managed the post office and were involved in numerous civic and cultural projects.

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.

Wythe later had numerous students assist in his law office as legal apprentices, including Jefferson, his law clerk for five years ; Henry Clay, and John Breckinridge.

Although he was a leading Federalist, Thomas Jefferson kept him in office until King asked to be relieved.