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  • What Did Thomas Jefferson’s World Sound Like?

    slate.com 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Thomas Jefferson wrote that “music is the favorite passion of my soul.” He was an avid collector of musical scores, and believed that the new republic needed to build a musical tradition. The blog “ Musicology for Everyone ” lists the third president as the second most musical, after Warren Harding, who played the sousaphone well enough to join the band celebrating his election.

  • Thomas Jefferson's Vegetable Garden: A Thing Of Beauty And Science

    npr.org 3 weeks ago

    Thomas Jefferson's garden was a vast, beautiful science experiment involving over 300 varieties of 90 different plants. And no gardening detail was too small for Jefferson to note in the gardening journal he kept for nearly 60 years.

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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States. At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jefferson served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia. He then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia. Just after the war ended, from mid-1784 Jefferson served as a diplomat, stationed in Paris, initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France. He was the first United States Secretary of State during the administration of President George Washington. Upon resigning his office, with his close friend James Madison he organized the Democratic-Republican Party. Elected Vice-President in 1796, under his opponent John Adams, Jefferson with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts and formed the basis of states' rights.

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