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1797–1801 3 3 Thomas Jefferson's Liberty: Jefferson's grave at Monticello: August 30, 2007 [58] $429.95 19,815 1801–1809 4 4 Dolley Madison: Mrs. Madison posing before the Lansdowne portrait of Washington, which she saved during the Burning of Washington: November 19, 2007 [59] $529.95 17,943 1809–1817 5 5 Elizabeth Monroe
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence .
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello Edition, Washington, D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904, Vol. 3 pp. 26–59. Thomas Jefferson to House of Representatives, July 4, 1790, Report on Plan for Establishing a Uniform Currency, with Draft Copy archived at Library of Congress
[13] The new US silver dollar of 371.25 grains (24.057 g) therefore compared favorably and was received at par with the Spanish dollar for foreign payments, and in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson halted new silver dollars made out of the US Mint's limited resources since it failed to stay in domestic circulation.
The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third president of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1801. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Thomas Jefferson as president and the only four-year term of Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John ...
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. Jefferson assumed the office after defeating incumbent president John Adams in the 1800 presidential election .
This was Jefferson's final address to the Tenth United States Congress. In the speech, Jefferson focused heavily on the Embargo Act of 1807, which had been enacted in response to British and French aggressions toward U.S. neutral trading rights during the Napoleonic Wars. Jefferson expressed disappointment that neither Britain nor France had ...
The Jefferson nickel has been the five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint since 1938, when it replaced the Buffalo nickel.From 1938 until 2004, the copper-nickel coin's obverse featured a profile depiction of Founding Father and third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by artist Felix Schlag; the obverse design used in 2005 was also in profile, though by Joe Fitzgerald.