When President Jefferson wrote his famous letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Conn.
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But the chairwoman of the memorial foundation's research committee, Dianne Swann-Wright, noted that President Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings' children when they were adults - a highly unusual move for the time.
President Thomas Jefferson waged our first foreign war to fight Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean.
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His misdeeds largely consisted of being a staunch Federalist and crossing President Thomas Jefferson, a Republican.
Another case was against Hardy Rodenstock, a German wine connoisseur who claimed to have discovered a cache of wine in Paris that once belonged to President Thomas Jefferson.
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As president, Jefferson was voicing an idea that was fundamental to his view of religion and government, expressed most significantly in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which he drafted in 1777.
He may not have been elected president, but there is absolutely no question that the man who did win very well might have gone down to defeat but for the efforts of President William Jefferson Clinton.
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His favourite president was Thomas Jefferson, with his passion to make all things new.
It turns out that gamers will be getting a brand new Avengers game from Disney, according to TQ Jefferson, vice president of games production for Marvel.
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).
Hence the suspicion that, as Jefferson feared, the president must be protected from some sorts of legal attack if he is to perform his duties properly.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president, discontinued this practice in 1801, saying the elaborate, formal ceremony (which included a "president's throne") too closely resembled a king addressing his subjects.
Thomas Jefferson, upon becoming president, pardoned them all.
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From Jefferson Keel, the current President of the National Congress of American Indians and the Lt.
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In 1797 when Thomas Jefferson was preparing to become president of the Senate, the first rules he wrote were rules of comity -- how the Senate could work together effectively.
He never asked for advice about the name changes, although he mentioned that he admired William Jefferson Clinton because the American president, like Willy, had come from a poor part of a big country.
The same could be said of another president who remains in office, one William Jefferson Clinton.
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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.
"Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and served two terms as president, " he said.
Thomas Jefferson called off all prosecutions under the Sedition Act when he became president, and pardoned those already convicted.
In this regard, he might well listen to another American president whose name he hasn't invoked: Great social innovation, Thomas Jefferson wrote, shouldn't rest on slender majorities.
People like Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, had to rely on Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a reference for the life and leadership of the Persian king.
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William Jefferson Clinton was elected freely, fairly and openly by the American people to be 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.
It's replacing a bridge built when Franklin Roosevelt was president on what the Missouri Department of Transportation says is the most direct link between Missouri's capitol, Jefferson City, and a large U.S. Army installation, Fort Leonard Wood.
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