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 ).

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.

* Blind Lemon Jefferson, an influential blues musician, was born and is buried in Wortham.

Both are buried in New Orleans, Joe Jr. at St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery No. 2 and Joe E. at Jefferson Memorial Gardens.

It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest and motivations — noble or selfish — to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson.

Addie has made Anse promise that she will be buried in the town of Jefferson, and though this request is a far more complicated proposition than burying her at home, Anse ’ s sense of obligation, combined with his desire to buy a set of false teeth, compels him to fulfill Addie ’ s dying wish.

Therefore Addie's requests as she dies including her desire to be buried in Jefferson ( which was quite far away ) represents her deceit and her ability to control her family on her death bed and in death.

He is buried at Monticello in the Jefferson family graveyard.

The story of the three ciphertexts originates from an 1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1820.

The couple had one child, Lewis B. Armistead, who died on December 6, 1854, and was also buried at Jefferson Barracks next to Flora Lee Armistead.

* Jefferson Davis was buried at Metairie Cemetery but was since moved to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia

Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting and buried in any one of four places: a rented boat shed ; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula ; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn ( where his family owned a lakeside log cabin ); and a beach in Jefferson County.

He was seen by Brooks to be " grabbed " by Corll at his Wirt Road address and was subsequently buried at Jefferson County Beach.

Taylor is buried along with other member's of Jefferson Davis ' family in the cemetery located on the former site of the Locust Grove Plantation.

She died in 1970 and was buried with her husband at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri.

John Jefferson are also buried here.

" Woodfill was buried in the Jefferson County Cemetery near Madison, Indiana.

He died on March 2, 1796 and was buried at Old Graveyard in the city of Washington, Pennsylvania on Walnut Street which is now considered to be the present site of Washington & Jefferson College.

The inscription, as he stipulated, reads Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

He died in 1894 in Denver, Colorado following being run over by a horse and buggy and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Jefferson County, Colorado.

The Eston Hemings Jefferson family is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison.

He is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri.

He died in 1927 of heart disease in St Louis, Missouri, and is buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri.

His last words were ″ I feel that my work on earth is done, and there is not a cloud be ­ tween me and God .″ William and Eliza Hauser are buried on their plantation, Hesperia, near Wadley in Jefferson County, Georgia.