(1) Il est marié avec MARTHA WAYLES Skelton.
Ils se sont mariés environ 1767 à Albemarle, Virginia, United States.
Enfant(s):
(2) Il est marié avec Sally [illegitimate] Hemings.
Ils se sont mariés à Not Married.
Enfant(s):
American statesman, 3rd President of the United States; born in Shadwell, VA,
he was graduated from William and Mary College in 1764, and in 1769 was sent to
the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he gained local fame by a speech
supporting the emanciation of slaves. Elected in 1774 as a delegate to the
Colonial Congress but unable to go, Jefferson sent a "Summary View of the
Rights of British North America." Jefferson was a member of the Second
Continental Congress in 1775, and the third in 1776, and wrote most of the
"Declaration of Independence." In 1779 he was elected Governor of Virginia. In
1783 he returned to Congress, where he secured the adoption of the Decimal
System of coinage. In 1784, with Franklin and Adams, hewas instrumental in
making important treaties with Prussia and Morocco, and in 1785 he was made
minister to France where he served during the stormiest period of the French
Revolution. In 1789 he was made Secretary of State by Washington. Jefferson
came to be recognized as the leader of the Republican Party, the other
members of the Cabinet and Washington himself being Federalists. In 1797 he was
chosen Vice President with Adams, and in 1801 was elected President and was
re-elected in 1805. His administrations were marked by war with Tripoli, the
admission of Ohio to the Union, the purchase of the Louisuana Territory, the
Embargo Act, and the trial of Aaron Burr for treason. In 1809 he retired to his
home on Monticello, VA, wgere he died July 4, 1826, on the day of John Adams'
death and the 50th anniversary of the famous Declaration.
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Sally [illegitimate] Hemings |
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