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Thomas and Eston
* Eston Hemings ( possibly named Thomas Eston Hemings ) ( May 21, 1808 – 1856 )
In an article that appeared in Science, eight weeks after the DNA study, Eugene Foster, the lead co-author of the DNA study, is reported to have " made it clear that the data establish only that Thomas Jefferson was one of several candidates for the paternity of Eston Hemings.
" Beverley and Anna's great-grandson John Weeks Jefferson was the Eston Hemings descendant whose DNA was tested in 1998 ; it matched the Y-chromosome of the Thomas Jefferson male line.
Evidence from a 1998 DNA test showed that a descendant of Eston matched the Jefferson male line, and historical evidence supports the team's conclusion that Thomas Jefferson was likely the father.

Thomas and Hemings
Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.
Sarah " Sally " Hemings ( Charles City County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835 ) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson through his wife's inheritance.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation ( TJF ), which runs Monticello, conducted an independent historic review in 2000, as did the National Genealogical Society in 2001 ; both reported scholars who concluded Jefferson was likely the father of all Hemings ' children.
In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a major exhibit at the National Museum of American History: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty ; it says that " evidence strongly support the conclusion that Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings ' children.
* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.
* Jan E. Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, editors, Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture ( University Press of Virginia, 1999 )
* Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, 2000, Monticello
* Byron W. Woodson, Sr., A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson ( Praeger, 2001 )
* Interview with Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Brian Lamb, Booknotes, 21 February 1999, video ( 59 minutes )
As an example of such changes, in 2007 the DAR posthumously honored Mary Hemings Bell, a former slave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, as a " Patriot of the Revolution.
After the war, Hemings gained informal freedom when her common-law husband, Thomas Bell, a white merchant of Charlottesville, purchased her and their two mixed-race children from Jefferson.
Her mother was born into slavery at Monticello, where she was a daughter of Joseph Fossett and granddaughter of Elizabeth Hemings ; all owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson is widely believed to have fathered four surviving mixed-race children with his slave Sally Hemings, who was three-quarters white by ancestry.
This is how Betty Hemings and her 10 children eventually were inherited by Martha's daughter, Martha Wayles, by then married to Thomas Jefferson.
* John Hemings, a slave of Thomas Jefferson
Composed by Glenn Paxton, Monticello portrays the love affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

Thomas and enlisted
Washington D. C July 4, 1910-In a race riot one white man Thomas Mundle, an enlisted man of the united states Marine corps had his throat cut by a negro and died.
He and his brother Thomas enlisted in the army during the Civil War.
Journey's manager, Herbie Herbert, enlisted producer Roy Thomas Baker to engineer " Infinity.
He also enlisted the services of a number of Continental soldiers of fortune, among whom were Lafayette, Baron Johann de Kalb, Thomas Conway, Casimir Pulaski, and Baron von Steuben.
On February 25, 1937, Tibbets enlisted as a flying cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
In order to do this she enlisted the help of Sir Thomas Lovell, who was both the Governor of Nottingham Castle and Secretary to the Treasury.
His work in animated cartoon shorts included The Brave Little Tailor, in which he animated scenes of Mickey Mouse and the king ; Mickey and the bear in The Pointer, and German dialogue scenes in the World War II propaganda short Education for Death ( shortly before Thomas enlisted in the Air Force ).
In April 1898, during the Spanish-American War, he enlisted in the Army under the name Thomas E. ( Edwin ) Mix.
Thomas H. B. Symons, " custodian " of the Bull Collection, was enlisted later on that year.
Designed by Thomas Hudson Jones and originally established on April 1, 1964 as the " Air Force Reserve Ribbon " by Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, the award became a full sized medal, under its current name, on November 2, 1971 under Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr. From 1965 to 1974, the award was presented for four years of honorable reserve enlisted service in the Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard, however the time limit was lowered to three years of service beginning on July 1, 1975.
It was started by Ross H. Arnett, Jr. as an update of his classic The Beetles of the United States ; along with Michael C. Thomas, he enlisted more than 60 specialists to write treatments of each family.
To aid with performing on the album ( and more importantly, live ), Hans Lampe and brother Thomas Dinger were enlisted to help execute more music than was possible by two men.
Furber was interested in developing a projection system that could be used in a lighted room, and enlisted the aid of a friend, Arthur Payne, a former employee of Thomas Edison.
After Our Gang was discontinued, Thomas enlisted in the US Army in 1954, and was released from active military service in 1956 decorated with a National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal.
William Thomas Dartnell VC ( 6 April 1885 – 3 September 1915 ) ( enlisted as Wilbur Taylor Dartnell ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Next, she talked Thomas Massie into kidnapping Joseph Kahahawai, the darkest skinned of the five defendants, with the help of two Navy enlisted men-Albert O. Jones and Edward J. Lord.
Clark enlisted Utah's U. S. Senator and mining magnate Thomas Kearns to ensure the line's completion through Utah to Las Vegas.
On September 13, 1861, McNelly enlisted in the Confederate States Army, joining Company F of the Fifth Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers under General Thomas Green.

Thomas and United
* 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.
John Wesley consecrated Thomas Coke a " General Superintendent ," and directed that Francis Asbury also be consecrated for the United States of America in 1784, where the Methodist Episcopal Church first became a separate denomination apart from the Church of England.
Notable bishops in United Methodist history include Coke, Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Philip William Otterbein, Martin Boehm, Jacob Albright, John Seybert, Matthew Simpson, John S. Stamm, William Ragsdale Cannon, Marjorie Matthews, Leontine T. Kelly, William B. Oden, Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Joseph Sprague, William Henry Willimon, and Thomas Bickerton.
* Paterson, Thomas G. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
In 1928, a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the most distinguished biologist in the United States at the time, and discoverer of the role of genes and the chromosome in heredity.
Busbridge Church of Gothic Revival styling by Thomas Leverton Donaldson in Godalming, United Kingdom
When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.
* Otis, Alison T., William D. Honey, Thomas C. Hogg, and Kimberly K. Lakin The Forest Service and The Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42 ( United States Forest Service FS-395, August 1986 ) online
In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Thomas undertook a second tour of the United States in 1952, this time with Caitlin after she had discovered he had been unfaithful on his earlier trip.
Probably the two most famous declarations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are John Locke's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government and Thomas Jefferson's formulation in the United States Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal ".
In the United States of America, this lineage of democratic education reform was continued by Thomas Jefferson, who advocated ambitious reforms partly along Platonic lines for public schooling in Virginia.
" The nuclear Thomas – Fermi model ", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), United States Department of Energy, ( August 1, 1994 ).
The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.
* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.
The Federalist party of the United States were opposed by the Democratic-Republicans, including powerful figures such as Thomas Jefferson.
The revolutionaries, headed by former president Manuel Bonilla, and the government agreed to a cease-fire and the installation of a provisional president who would be selected by the United States mediator, Thomas Dawson.
" House representative Thomas Sisson stated, " The purpose of this bill -- and we are all in sympathy with it -- is to prevent the use of opium in the United States, destructive as it is to human happiness and human life.

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