The position of secretary of state was the gateway to the White House for Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.
It was built for the Count of Aufflay, visited by Thomas Jefferson and considered for purchase by Michael Jackson.
Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.
Clinton's namesake, Thomas Jefferson, is famous for penning the Declaration of Independence at the age of 33 and, as president, orchestrating the Louisiana Purchase.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were rivals jockeying for support all through Washington's second term and Adams' single one (when Jefferson was his vice president).
America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
The State of the Union address, for more than a century -- from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson -- was not even delivered verbally to Congress.
After fighting the Spanish for control, cash-strapped Napoleon Bonaparte begrudgingly sold it to Thomas Jefferson in 1803.
Hamilton insisted that the federal government take over those debts and issue bonds for them, and he also insisted, in the face of considerable opposition, including that of Thomas Jefferson, on setting up a strong national bank.
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That's perhaps why Thomas Jefferson, who helped enshrine the founding principles of our nation, had such a passion for architecture and design.
More than 200 years after Thomas Jefferson exalted the yeoman farmer, barns remain symbols of hard work, community and reverence for the land.
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