His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

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.

There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

Thomas ' father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as " son of the sea ", after Dylan ail Don, a character in The Mabinogion.

In October 1925, Thomas enrolled at Swansea Grammar School for boys, in Mount Pleasant, where his father taught English.

One of Thomas ' last poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas 1952.

Apologetically, in a letter to Keidrych Rhys, editor of literary magazine Wales, Thomas ' father wrote that he was " afraid Dylan isn't much of a Welshman ".

The heroine's father, Maurice Malherb, is based on Thomas Windeatt.

The period between Henry's accession and the birth of Eleanor's youngest son was turbulent: Aquitaine, as was the norm, defied the authority of Henry as Eleanor's husband ; attempts to claim Toulouse, the rightful inheritance of Eleanor's grandmother and father, were made, ending in failure ; the news of Louis of France's widowhood and remarriage was followed by the marriage of Henry's son ( young Henry ) to Louis ' daughter Marguerite ; and, most climactically, the feud between the King and Thomas Becket, his Chancellor, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

This triad, as well as the egalitarianism of Epicurus, was carried forward into the American freedom movement and Declaration of Independence, by the American founding father, Thomas Jefferson, as " all men are created equal " and endowed with certain " inalienable rights ," such as " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

His father, Thomas Gerry, was a merchant operating ships out of Marblehead, and his mother, Elizabeth ( Greenleaf ) Gerry, was the daughter of a successful Boston merchant.

Her father Thomas refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.

Jardines is controlled by the Keswick family, who are direct descendants of William Jardine's sister Jean through the marriage of her daughter to Thomas Keswick, father of William Keswick, an early Tai-pan of the firm.

He obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election.

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London-originally a dependency of Barking Abbey in Barking, Essex, of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth ; his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House.

Thomas Wyatt the younger led a force from Kent to depose Mary in favour of Elizabeth, as part of a wider conspiracy now known as Wyatt's rebellion, which also involved the Duke of Suffolk, the father of Lady Jane.

In the seventeenth century laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned " father of English medicine " or " English Hippocrates ," to whom is attributed the quote, " Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

William found a stable parsonage at the St. Thomas A. M. E. Zion in 1910, where Robeson would fill in for his father during sermons when he was called away.

His father went on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Becket to pray for Philip's recovery, and was told that his son had indeed recovered.

In 1826 the family moved to Abington, County Limerick, where Le Fanu's father Thomas took up his second rectorship in southern Ireland.

When Jefferson's father Peter died Thomas inherited, among other things, his large library.

On 1 July 1535, More was tried before a panel of judges that included the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Audley, as well as Anne Boleyn's father, brother, and uncle.

After the death of her father, she was raised by his widow, Catherine Parr and her husband Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.

# Thomas Watson, Jr. succeeded his father as IBM chairman and later served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Jimmy Carter.

Recent visiting artists have included Richard Tuttle, Andrea Fraser, Omer Fast, Rirkrit Tiravanija, DJ Spooky, Kalup Linzy, Elizabeth Peyton, Mel Chin, Thomas Hirschhorn, Raymond Pettibon, Rodney Graham, Isaac Julien, Dave Hickey, Vito Acconci, and many others.

Edge provided " 22, 000 Days " ( featuring Thomas as lead voice with Hayward & Lodge ) while Thomas ' own contributions were the final portion of the set with his singing on the final two songs ; " Painted Smile ", " Reflective Smile " ( a poem narrated by a DJ friend of the band ) and " Veteran Cosmic Rocker ".

Southern worked on a variety of screenplays after Easy Rider, including God Is Love, DJ ( based on a book by Norman Mailer ), Hand-Painted Hearts ( based on a story by Thomas Baum ), and Drift with Tony Goodstone.

At 7 p. m. on August 29, 1991, WFNX DJ Kurt St. Thomas gave Nirvana's album Nevermind its world premiere by playing the album from start to finish.

Ernest Thomas is also one of the stars of rocker / horror movie director Rob Zombie's upcoming 2012 film " The Lords of Salem " in which he plays a local town's radio DJ.

DJ BoBo released his first ballad " Love Is the Price " in January, 1996, which was introduced in Thomas Gottschalk's TV show Wetten, dass ..?.

The individual members of the group, rappers Phonte ( Phonte Coleman ), and Rapper Big Pooh ( Thomas Jones ), and DJ / producer 9th Wonder ( Pat Douthit ), met in 1998 while enrolled as college students at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

The venue held Jacobson's booking to him and after two weeks of panic and a sloppy debut performance, a backing band was assembled featuring DJ / percussionist Olly Thomas, bassist Dave Crane, and drummer Damien Green.

Pioneers of southern soul include: Georgia natives Ray Charles and James Brown ; Little Willie John, Bobby " Blue " Bland, New Orleans R & B artist Allen Toussaint ; and Memphis DJ Rufus Thomas.

The many famous names from Anstruther include religious thinker and leader Dr Thomas Chalmers, co-founder of the Free Church of Scotland ( whose house is preserved ), sports writer Graham Speirs, and was the childhood home of BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman.

is a German DJ / producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen ( born 10 June 1970, Nettetal, Germany ), who works in the recording studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas " Alisson " Lüdke.

It was created by DJ / producer Angel Moraes, who also designed and built its famous Sound System and later co-owned by Thomas Piscardeli and Michael Rein On July 3, 2008, the afterhours section of the club was closed for over a year due to a fire.

* Thomas Porter, DJ based in the north of Scotland

Thomas Wesley Pentz ( born November 10, 1978 ), better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Philadelphia-based American DJ, producer, rapper, and songwriter.

Headline artists at WEMF 2012 included Wolfgang Gartner, Zeds Dead, Moby, Chase & Status, Pendulum, Andy C, Infected Mushroom ( live ), DJ Hype, Thomas Gold, Datsik, The Crystal Method, Krafty Kuts, Dub FX, Felix Cartel, 12th Planet, Christopher Lawrence, John 00 Fleming, Trolley Snatcha, Harvard Bass, Adventure CLub, Ed Rush & Optical, MC GQ, Figure, The Killabits, Torro Torro, Adam K, Jelo Bad Company Keys & Krates Mimosa, Two Fresh, Jeft Tale and many, many more over 3 stages.

Musicians on the Roulé label included Romanthony, Stardust, Roy Davis, Jr., DJ Falcon, Alan Braxe, Together, and Thomas Bangalter's own material.

This period was marked by such legendary talent as Josh Wink, Robbie Tronco, King Britt, Dj Dozia, Jeff Gross ( DJ Rush ), Richie Rosati, Willyum, Stango, Suzi Miller and her Bananettes along with local legends like performers: Natasha and Coco, video artist: Nick London, Nick and Gigi Meoli, Toni Thomas, and uber Philly It-Girl, Kim Kelly.

Calder got one of his songwriters Thomas Dolby to create a catchy hook for a local DJ Mr. Magic to rap over.

Tom Novy ( born Thomas Reichold ) is a DJ and producer from Munich, Germany.

* Jason Thomas ( DJ )

Other notable weekday programming includes mid-days with Shelby Rushin & DJ Griot, afternoons with Lorenzo " Ice Tea " Thomas & DJ Entice, " The Takeover " with Felisha Monet and DJ Nasty on nights, "" Night JAMZ " with Prince Markie Dee on late nights, and an early-morning " Gospel JAMZ " hour.