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Elected as an independent Thomas P. Ochiltree: Texas 7th: 1883–1885 Elected as an independent Charles N. Brumm: Pennsylvania 13th: 1881–1909 Elected as a member of the United States Greenback Party in 1880 Joseph Henry Burrows: Missouri 10th: 1881–1883 Elected as a member of the United States Greenback Party in 1880 Ira S. Haseltine ...
The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the ...
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 .
1999 – Donald Trump, businessman and real-estate developer, later 45th (2017–2021) and 47th (2025–) president of the United States, has been at various times a Republican, Democratic, Independent, and Reform Party member. 2000 – Virgil Goode, former U.S. representative from Virginia (1997–2009). Initially a Democrat, he sat as an ...
James Madison, shown in an 1804 portrait by Gilbert Stuart, served as Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson from 1801-1809, after which he succeeded Jefferson as the country's fourth ...
In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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. [130]
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.
Independence Hall Assembly Room where Thomas Jefferson served in Congress. Benjamin Franklin was in agreement with Thomas Jefferson in playing down the protection of "property" as a goal of government. It is noted that Franklin found the property to be a "creature of society" and thus, he believed that it should be taxed as a way to finance ...