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Jefferson Franklin Long (March 3, 1836 – February 4, 1901) was a U.S. congressman from Georgia.He was the second African American sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives and the first African-American congressman from Georgia.
Congress Voting Independence, by Robert Edge Pine (1784–1788), depicts the Committee of Five in the center Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' idealized 1900 depiction of (left to right) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson of the Committee of Five working on the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson is a 2025 American television documentary miniseries. The six-part miniseries chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson , a Founding Father and third President of the United States , and premiered on February 17, 2025, on History .
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
Obama's use of social media has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy's adoption of the radio and television, and, for that, Obama has been known as "the first social media ...
State of Franklin on U.S. map. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) [a] was an unrecognized proposed state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States.
In putting quill to parchment, these 56 statesmen, who included Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, renounced the British Empire and pronounced the North American colonies free states.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945.