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Randolph family of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, Robert E.Lee, Peyton Randolph, Carter Harrison, Jr., Carter Harrison, Sr., John Marshall, William Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Richard Bland, William Overton Callis, Henry Lee III, Jennings Randolph
ISBN/EAN: 9781156139820
Umbreit-Nr.: 4541448
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 72 S.
Format in cm: 0.5 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 06.03.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Peyton Randolph, Carter Harrison, Jr., Carter Harrison, Sr., John Marshall, William Randolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Richard Bland, William Overton Callis, Henry Lee III, Jennings Randolph, Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe, Edward Randolph, Edmund Randolph, William Randolph II, Charles Lilburn Lewis, Isham Randolph of Dungeness, Mary Anna Custis Lee, Randolph Jefferson, Sir John Randolph, Richard Randolph, Junius Daniel, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Lucy Jefferson Lewis, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Peter Jefferson, Beverley Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Jay Randolph, William Fitzhugh, William Stith, George W. Randolph, Jane Randolph Jefferson, Virginia Randolph Cary, Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh, Mary Randolph, Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson. Excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Many people were not pleased with his tenure and in the next election he did not win office again in Virginia. From mid-1784 through late 1789 Jefferson lived outside the United States. He served in Paris initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785 he succeeded Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. Minister to France. He was the first United States Secretary of State (1789-1793) under George Washington and advised him against a national bank and the Jay Treaty. He was the second Vice President (1797-1801) under John Adams. Winning on an anti-federalist platform, Jefferson took the oath of office and became President of the United States in 1801. As president he negotiated the Louisiana Purchase (1803), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) to explore the vast new territory and lands further west. Jefferson always distrusted Britain as a threat to American security; he rejected a renewal of the Jay Treaty that his ambassadors had negotiated in 1806 with Britain and promoted aggressive action, such as the embargo laws, that contributed to the already escalating tensions with Britain and France leading to war with Britain in 1812 after he left office. Jefferson idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a limited federal government. Jefferson supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). Jefferson's revolutionary view on individual religious freedom a