Author:Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

See biography, media, quotes. Third President of the United States (1801 – 1809), succeeding John Adams; succeeded by James Madison. Second Vice President (1797 - 1801), under Adams, succeeded Adams; succeeded by Burr. First Secretary of State (1789 - 1793), Ambassador to France (1785 - 1789).

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Inaugural Addresses 1.2 State of the Union Addresses 1.3 Messages to Congress 1.4 Addresses to the Indians 1.5 Other Works 2 Works about Jefferson 3 Transcription projects

[edit] Works

[edit] Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address - (4 March 1801)
• Second Inaugural Address - (4 March 1805)

[edit] State of the Union Addresses

• First State of the Union Address - (8 December 1801)
• Second State of the Union Address - (15 December 1802)
• Third State of the Union Address - (17 October 1803)
• Fourth State of the Union Address - (8 November 1804)
• Fifth State of the Union Address - (3 December 1805)
• Sixth State of the Union Address - (2 December 1806)
• Seventh State of the Union Address - (27 October 1807)
• Eighth State of the Union Address - (8 November 1808)

[edit] Messages to Congress

• Message to the Senate of April 8, 1802 - Regarding Article 6 of the Jay Treaty
• Message to the House of December 30, 1802 - Transmitting a letter from Manuel de Salcedo, Governor of Louisiana to William Claiborne Regarding the Treaty with Spain of 1795
• Message to the Senate of January 11, 1803 - Regarding Louisiana
• Message to Congress of January 18, 1803 - Secret message regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition to explore the West all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
• Message to the Senate of October 17, 1803 - Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of October 21, 1803 - Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of January 16, 1804 - Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• The Burr Conspiracy - Regarding the conspiracy led by the former Vice President Aaron Burr

[edit] Addresses to the Indians

• To Brother John Baptist de Coigne - (June 1781)
• To Brother Handsome Lake - (3 November 1802)
• To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation - (17 December 1803)
• To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation - (10 January 1806)
• To the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation - (30 December 1806)

[edit] Other Works

• Letters of Thomas Jefferson
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence - (28 June 1776)
• The Declaration of Independence of the United States - (July 1776)
• Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible (1820)

[edit] Works about Jefferson

• Henry Adams, "History of the United States 1801-09" (1889-90)
• James Parton, "Thomas Jefferson" (1914)

[edit] Transcription projects

• Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
  • Vol. 1 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 2 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 3 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 4 - Project Gutenberg

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