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Jefferson was raised in the Church of England at a time when it was the established church in Virginia and the only denomination funded by Virginia tax money. Before the Revolution, parishes were units of local government, and Jefferson served as a vestryman, a lay administrative position in his local parish.
While no president has ever openly identified as an atheist, Thomas Jefferson, [2] Abraham Lincoln, [3] [4] and William Howard Taft [5] were speculated to be atheists by their opponents during political campaigns; in addition, a survey during the presidency of Donald Trump showed that 63% of Americans did not believe he was religious, despite ...
Thomas Jefferson: 1797–1801: Christian Deist/Deist. Although raised as an Anglican, Jefferson later in life rejected the idea of the divinity of Jesus and became a deist. [1] 3: Aaron Burr: 1801–1805 Presbyterian, later rejected the Resurrection of Jesus 4: George Clinton: 1805–1812: Dutch Reformed: 5: Elbridge Gerry: 1813–1814 ...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and 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.
Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: The Philosophy of Jesus and The Life and Morals of Jesus. Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series. Vol. 3. pp. 3– 44. ISBN 0691046999. Zastoupil, Lynn (2009). "'Notorious and Convicted Mutilators': Rammohun Roy, Thomas Jefferson, and the Bible". Journal of World History. 20 (3): 399– 434.
Gallatin persuaded Jefferson to retain the First Bank of the United States, a major part of the Hamiltonian program, but other Federalist policies were scrapped. [48] Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican allies eliminated the whiskey excise and other taxes, [49] shrank the army and the navy, [50] repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and ...
Thomas and Alexander Campbell were the most prominent leaders of the Disciples of Christ movement of the early 19th century. The group was committed to restoring primitive Christianity . It merged with the Christians (Stone Movement) in 1832 to form what is now described as the American Restoration Movement (also known as the Stone-Campbell ...
In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) and New Deal Democrats celebrated his struggles for "the common man" and reclaimed him as their party's founder. Jefferson became a symbol of American democracy in the incipient Cold War, and the 1940s and 1950s saw the zenith of his popular reputation.