Thomas Claxton
Thomas Claxton was a purchasing agent for furniture for Thomas Jefferson, and specifically, as Marie Kimball called him, "Jefferson's man-Friday in [the] task of furnishing" the President's House.[1] Claxton worked with powerful Republicans in Congress to increase the initial appropriations for the house by $14,000.
Footnotes
- ↑ Marie Kimball, "The Original Furnishings of the White House," Magazine Antiques 16, no. 1 (1929): 36.
Further Sources
- Claxton-Jefferson Correspondence. Massachusetts Historical Society.
- Stein, Worlds, 57-60.</ref>
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