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Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman,diplomat,lawyer,architect,philosopher,and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801,Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams.
Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson,a Founding Father and the third president of the United States,who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 14. Located just outside Charlottesville,Virginia,in the Piedmont region,the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2),with Jefferson using the labor of African slaves for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops,later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to changing markets. Due to its architectural and historic significance,the property has been designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1987,Monticello and the nearby University of Virginia,also designed by Jefferson,were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The current nickel,a United States coin,features a depiction of Monticello on its reverse side.
Jefferson County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. It is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census,the population was 57,701. Its county seat is Charles Town. The county was founded in 1801,and today is part of the Washington metropolitan area.
Sarah "Sally" Hemings was an enslaved woman with one-quarter African ancestry owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson,one of many he inherited from his father-in-law,John Wayles.
Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest,Virginia,United States,that belonged to Thomas Jefferson,Founding Father and third U.S. president. Jefferson inherited the property in 1773 and began designing and working on his retreat home in 1806. While Jefferson is the most famous individual associated with the property,it had several owners before being purchased for restoration,preservation,and exhibition in 1984.
Shadwell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County,Virginia. It is located by the Rivanna River near Charlottesville. The site today is marked by a Virginia Historical Marker to mark the birthplace of President Thomas Jefferson. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Clifton.
Eston Hemings Jefferson was born into slavery at Monticello,the youngest son of Sally Hemings,a mixed-race enslaved woman. Most historians who have considered the question believe that his father was Thomas Jefferson,the third President of the United States. Evidence from a 1998 DNA test showed that a descendant of Eston matched the Jefferson male line,and historical evidence also supports the conclusion that Thomas Jefferson was probably Eston's father. Many historians believe that Jefferson and Sally Hemings had six children together,four of whom survived to adulthood. Other historians disagree.
Jane Randolph Jefferson was the wife of Peter Jefferson and the mother of US president Thomas Jefferson. Born in the parish of Shadwell,near London,she was the daughter of Isham Randolph,a ship's captain and a planter. Jefferson was proud of her heritage and brought customs of aristocracy to her family. Jefferson was revered within her family's household and positively influenced her son,Thomas Jefferson.
Madison Hemings was the son of the mixed-race enslaved woman Sally Hemings and,according to most Jefferson scholars,her enslaver,President Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of her four children to survive to adulthood. Born into slavery,according to partus sequitur ventrem,Hemings grew up on Jefferson's Monticello plantation,where his mother was also enslaved. After some light duties as a young boy,Hemings became a carpenter and fine woodwork apprentice at around age 14 and worked in the joiner's shop until he was about 21. He learned to play the violin and was able to earn money by growing cabbages. Jefferson died in 1826,after which Sally Hemings was "given her time" by Jefferson's surviving daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph.
Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth was an American politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia,who served in the West Virginia Senate and briefly as the second Governor of West Virginia.
Jesse Wakefield Beams was an American physicist at the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Albemarle County was a Virginia planter,soldier and politician who served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates,as rector of the University of Virginia,and as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The favorite grandson of President Thomas Jefferson,he helped manage Monticello near the end of his grandfather's life and was executor of his estate,and later also served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861.
David R. Francis Quadrangle is the historical center of the University of Missouri in Columbia,Missouri. Known as The Quad,it is the oldest part of Red Campus and adjacent to Downtown Columbia at the south end of the Avenue of the Columns. At its center are six Ionic columns,all that remains of the original university building Academic Hall. Twelve buildings front the modern quadrangle including the domed main administration building Jesse Hall,the tallest building in Columbia. The Quad was designed and constructed by architect Morris Frederick Bell and his assistant William Lincoln Garver. It is named after Missouri governor David R. Francis. Eighteen structures,including the entire quad and most of Red Campus are listed as the Francis Quadrangle National Historic District. An obelisk,the original tombstone of Thomas Jefferson,stands in front of the Chancellor's Residence. It was gifted to the University by Jefferson's descendants in recognition of Missouri's ties to Virginia. In front of Jesse Hall stand markers honoring university president Richard Henry Jesse and Missouri governor David R. Francis. Nearby is another obelisk in memory of Missouri's first U.S. senator David Barton,The Missouri School of Journalism is located at the northeast corner of The Quad,comprising Walter Williams Hall,Neff Hall,Gannet Hall,along with the Reynolds Journalism Institute. To the west,Switzler Hall is the oldest academic building on campus,though the Residence on the Quad,home of the chancellor,is the oldest building overall. The University of Missouri College of Engineering completes the west side. Pickard Hall is currently closed due to radiation contamination from turn of the century experiments. Swallow Hall was recently renovated and houses the Departments of Anthropology,Visual Studies and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Thomas Jefferson's involvement with and support of education is best known through his founding of the University of Virginia,which he established in 1819 as a secular institution after he left the presidency of the United States. Jefferson believed that libraries and books were so integral to individual and institutional education that he designed the university around its library.
Thomas Jefferson,the third president of the United States,owned more than 600 slaves during his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived,and five others were freed after his death,including two of his children from his relationship with his slave Sally Hemings. His other two children with Hemings were allowed to escape without pursuit. After his death,the rest of the slaves were sold to pay off his estate's debts.
Thomas Jefferson,the third president of the United States,was involved in politics from his early adult years. This article covers his early life and career,through his writing the Declaration of Independence,participation in the American Revolutionary War,serving as governor of Virginia,and election and service as Vice-President to President John Adams.
The 1891 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1891 college football season. Led by Frederick Lincoln Emory in his first and only year as the Mountaineers' head coach,this was the first West Virginia Mountaineers football team. They lost the only game they played Washington &Jefferson,72–0,at the Show Lot in Morgantown,West Virginia.
Paleontology in West Virginia refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of West Virginia. West Virginia's fossil record begins in the Cambrian. From that time through the rest of the early Paleozoic,the state was at least partially submerged under a shallow sea. The Paleozoic seas of West Virginia were home to creatures like corals,eurypterids,graptolites,nautiloids,and trilobites at varying times. During the Carboniferous period,the sea was replaced by lushly vegetated coastal swamps. West Virginia is an excellent source of fossil plants due to these deposits. These swamps were home to amphibians. A gap in the local rock record spans from the Permian to the end of the Cenozoic. West Virginia was never the site of glacial activity during the Ice Age,but the state was home to creatures like mammoths,mastodons,and giant ground sloths. One local ground sloth,Megalonyx jeffersonii,was subject to the scholarly investigations of Thomas Jefferson,who misinterpreted the large-clawed remains as belonging to a lion-like predator. In 2008,this species was designated the West Virginia state fossil.
The Jefferson-Eppes Trophy is an American college football trophy given to the winner of irregularly played games between the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University and the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia. The trophy was created on the suggestion of former FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte,after Virginia became the first ACC program to defeat Florida State on November 2,1995. To that point,the Seminoles had run up a perfect 29–0 record through their first 3½years of Atlantic Coast Conference play.
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