President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963; see entry in volume 5) once hosted a White House dinner attended by many Nobel Prize winners. Looking out on the gathering of famous scientists, physicians, and writers, he remarked that it was "the most...

Jefferson, Thomas Excerpt from "Jefferson's First Inaugural Address" Delivered on March 4, 1801 Published in Documents of American History, edited by Henry S. Commager, 1943 America experienced a series of revolutions in the late...

Jefferson, Thomas Excerpt from "To the U.S. Minister to France" Written on April 18, 1802 Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1905 When Spain ceded Louisiana to France in October 1800, the deal...

Jefferson, Thomas Excerpt from "Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis" Delivered April 1803; published in The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Bernard DeVoto, 1953 The Louisiana Purchase, the vast expanse of land acquired by the...

Thomas Jefferson Born April 13, 1743 (Shadwell, Virginia) Died July 4, 1826 (Monticello, Virginia) U.S. president, vice president, secretary of state, scientist, inventor, philosopher, foreign diplomat, architect Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owning...

Born April 13, 1743Shadwell, VirginiaDied July 4, 1826Charlottesville, Virginia President and vice president of the United States, lawyer, philosopher,...

A Summary View of the Rights of British America First published in 1774; excerpted from The Portable Thomas Jefferson, 1975 "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions begun at a...

Absalom Jones Born November 6, 1746 (Sussex County, Delaware) Died February 13, 1818 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Episcopal priest Absalom Jones was the first black Protestant Episcopal priest in the United States. He was principal founder of St....

(born April 2 [April 13, New Style], 1743, Shadwell, Virginia [U.S.]—died July 4, 1826, Monticello, Virginia, U.S.) draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation's first secretary of state (1789–94),...

Jefferson, Thomas(1743 437. Sheldon, Garrett Ward. The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,...

Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826. The American...

(b. April 13, 1743; d. July 4, 1826) Third president of the United States (1801–1809). Thomas Jefferson was among the preeminent founders of the United States, advocating strong states' rights and separation of church and state. He...

(born April 13, 1743, Shadwell, Va.—died July 4, 1826, Monticello, Va., U.S.) Third president of the U.S. (1801–09). He was a planter and became a lawyer in 1767. While a member of the House of Burgesses (1769–75), he initiated the...

1743-1826 American president, statesman and inventor who, among other things, is credited with helping to define the duties and regulations of the U.S. Patent Office. From 1790-93, Thomas Jefferson served as examiner of patents. Although he initially...

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 – 4 July 1826)[1] was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the...