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Politics

Articles on Jefferson's political career and public life.

83 Entries

• A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge
• Aaron Burr
• Albert Gallatin
• Astoria
• Bill 64
• Caesar Rodney
• Chesapeake Affair
• David Stone
• De Witt Clinton
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of Independence by Trumbull (Engraving)
• Dining at the President's House
• Dining with Congress
• Dinner Etiquette
• Edmond Charles Edouard Genet
• Edward Coles
• Edward Preble (Medals & Medallions)
• Election of 1800
• Election of 1804
• Elementary School Act
• Embargo Act of 1807
• Execution on the White House Lawn
• Fall of the Bastille
• First Barbary War
• First Cabinet
• First Inauguration
• Fourth of July
• Francis Wayles Eppes
• French Revolution
• George Wythe
• George Wythe Randolph
• Gifts from Foreign Dignitaries
• Governor of Virginia
• Henry Dearborn
• I never considered a difference of opinion in politics...(Quotation)
• Isaac H. Tiffany
• Jack Jouett's Ride
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• James Thomson Callender
• Jefferson Nickel
• John Adams
• John Dickinson
• John Trumbull
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
• Loan Office (Virginia)
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manual of Parliamentary Practice
• Margaret Bayard Smith
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Meriwether Lewis
• Minister to France
• Native Americans
• No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it (Quotation)
• Notes on the State of Virginia
• Philip Mazzei
• Political Origins of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Postal Service
• Public Speaking
• Pursuit of Happiness
• Quotations on Liberty
• Russia
• Seal of the United States
• Senatorial Saucer
• Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, Tunisian Envoy
• Son of a half-breed Indian squaw (Quotation)
• St. Domingue (Haiti)
• Survey of the Coast
• Thaddeus Kosciuszko
• The Lewis & Clark Expedition
• The Practice of Slavery at Monticello
• The Unknown Patriot
• Thomas Claxton
• Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom
• Thomas Paine
• United States Military Academy at West Point
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Visiting Heads of State
• William Burwell
• William Short
• William Wirt
• Wilson Cary Nicholas
• XYZ Affair

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