There is currently a movement afoot for part of northern California and southern Oregon to secede from their states and form the state of Jefferson.
When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
The English swept through in the early 18th century, but the Spanish held on long enough to be euchred out of the state by a succession of American presidents, starting with the wily Thomas Jefferson, who were determined to have the Floridas, as they were called, which had fallen outside the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1800, Aaron Burr assembled an all-star, pro-Jefferson slate in the key state of New York and worked tirelessly to get the vote out.
Vice President Joe Biden was recently dispatched to Democratic stronghold Jefferson County in the important swing state of Ohio, in part because Obama barely eked out a win over John McCain in the predominately white, working-class community.
The position of secretary of state was the gateway to the White House for Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.
But Jefferson says that, in terms of online issues, the state is far from the worst.
He is currently a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.
The State of the Union address, for more than a century -- from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson -- was not even delivered verbally to Congress.
The limited government of Jefferson became the runaway military government of Lincoln, and later the all-powerful social welfare state of Franklin D.
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At Martha Jefferson, we worked with a mid-range budget and met the rigorous review process of the State of Virginia Certificate of Public Need.
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