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.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

Opposition to them resulted in the highly controversial Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, authored by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

The second, began in western Pennsylvania and Virginia ( now West Virginia ), led by Thomas Campbell and his son, Alexander Campbell.

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.

* Thomas M. Davis, former U. S. Congressman from Virginia

* 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler ( b. 1718 )

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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.

* 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, now commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson at Harper's Ferry.

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 were written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively.

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

She is also mentioned in the poem Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

The tall white columns glimpsed through the dark green of cedar foliage, the wide veranda encircling the house, the stately silence endangered by the century-old oaks evoke memories of Thomas Nelson Page's On Virginia.

In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781 – 82, Thomas Jefferson stated: " The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth.

McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis (" Thus always to tyrants ", which was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ) and " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants " ( from Thomas Jefferson ).

Seven states formally responded to Kentucky and Virginia by rejecting the Resolutions and three other states passed resolutions expressing disapproval, with the other four states taking no action.

This responded to a civil investigative demand being served on the University of Virginia by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, seeking a broad range of documents from Michael E. Mann, who was formerly an assistant professor there from 1999-2005.

" A spokesperson for the Virginia Department of Agriculture responded that " PETA will basically take anything that comes through the door, and other shelters won't do that ," and that it had considered changing PETA's status from " shelter " to " euthanasia clinic.

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 ".

The Royal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, responded by launching an expedition against the Mingos and Shawnees, in the conflict known as Dunmore ’ s War.

Although fire engines from nearby cities ( such as Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. as well as units from New York City, Virginia, Wilmington, and Atlantic City ) responded, many could not help because their hose couplings could not fit Baltimore's hydrants.

She did not directly answer as she had no clue what she was even talking about, so instead she responded that what was more important was that the legislation would ban large capacity " clips " ( sic ) of the type used in the Virginia Tech massacre and that the class of guns chosen prohibited by the law were those used by gangs and killers of police officers.

Moran responded by portraying McSlarrow as a drug abuser, referring to the candidate's admitted use of cocaine and marijuana while at the University of Virginia.

Sailer responded that his accusers admitted a correlation between low IQ and poor judgment by supporting the Supreme Court's 2002 Atkins v. Virginia decision " that, in effect, banned the death penalty for killers with IQs under 70.

Robert Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia as well as a shareholder of the Ohio Company, responded by sending a military unit under the command of George Washington to the region, which led to the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

Ellet responded in a letter, retracted her statements, and put the blame on Poe and his wife Virginia.

However, on October 14, 1967, while performing with Gaye at Hampden-Sydney College, outside of the college of Farmville, Virginia, Terrell fell and buckled onstage ; Gaye quickly responded by grabbing her by the arms and helping her offstage.

Seven states formally responded to Kentucky and Virginia by rejecting the resolutions and three other states passed resolutions expressing disapproval.

On May 21, 1861, Virginia's chief military officer, Major General Robert E. Lee responded to the growing threat from Fort Monroe by putting Colonel ( later Major General ) John B. Magruder in charge of the Virginia ( Confederate ) forces in the southern Virginia Peninsula area.

Major General Robert E. Lee in charge of Virginia ( soon to be Confederate ) forces, which already were in league with the Confederacy, responded to the growing Union threat from Fort Monroe by sending Colonel John Bankhead Magruder for the purposes of defending the southeastern area of the Peninsula and pushing Union forces back to the fort.

Representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the United States Coast Guard, and Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr .' s Office of Emergency Services responded to the scene.

The colonial governments of both Pennsylvania and Virginia responded by offering rewards to anyone who would kill him.

Representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), the United States Coast Guard, and Virginia Governor's Office of Emergency Services responded to the scene.

Waitman T. Willey responded to Carlile's plan by saying that it was " triple treason " — treason against the state of Virginia, the United States, and the Confederacy.

By 1676, the Virginia Militia had responded to numerous Indian raids and had served in Bacon ’ s Rebellion.