Author:Thomas Jefferson

←Author Index: Je

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

related portals: Presidents of the United States. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, 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).

Thomas Jefferson

Works

Inaugural Addresses

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

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)

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 January 22, 1807 - Regarding the conspiracy led by the former Vice President Aaron Burr

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)

Other Works

• Letters of Thomas Jefferson
• A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (6 January 1821)
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence (28 June 1776)
• The Declaration of Independence of the United States (July 1776)
• Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 February 1791)
• Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible (1820)
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)

Works about Jefferson

• “Jefferson, Thomas” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Jefferson, Thomas” by John Bigelow  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1881.
• History of the United States 1801-09 (1889-90) by Henry Adams
  • The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson
  • The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson
• William Peterfield Trent, “Jefferson, Thomas,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Jefferson, Thomas” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Jefferson, Thomas” by Francis Samuel Philbrick in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "Thomas Jefferson" by James Parton in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• “Jefferson, Thomas,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Jefferson, Thomas” by J. A. C. Chandler  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Jefferson, Thomas,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Proclamations

• Proclamation 4430 - Gerald Ford, Thomas Jefferson Day, 1976
• Proclamation 6669 - Bill Clinton, April 13, 1994
• Proclamation 7426 - George W. Bush, April 12, 2001
• Proclamation 8001 - George W. Bush, April 13, 2006
• Proclamation 8125 - George W. Bush, April 11, 2007

On his works

• “Declaration of Independence, American,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Declaration of Independence,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Declaration of Independence” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Declaration of Independence,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

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

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.