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— Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States (4 July 1826), correctly remembering the national day of his country "Thomas Jefferson survives." [9]: 54 [45] [46] [47] [note 31] — John Adams, president of the United States (4 July 1826), unaware that Jefferson had died earlier that same day The hanging of Jereboam O. Beauchamp.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) ... his last words were an acknowledgment of his longtime friend and rival. "Thomas Jefferson ...
This was Jefferson's final address to the Tenth United States Congress. In the speech, Jefferson focused heavily on the Embargo Act of 1807, which had been enacted in response to British and French aggressions toward U.S. neutral trading rights during the Napoleonic Wars. Jefferson expressed disappointment that neither Britain nor France had ...
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Among the delegates to the convention were future United States presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Over forty years after Patrick Henry delivered his speech and eighteen years after his death, biographer William Wirt published a posthumous reconstruction of the speech in his 1817 work Sketches of the Life and Character of ...
The 1801 State of the Union Address was written by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, on December 8, 1801. It was his first annual address and presented in Washington, D.C. It was his first annual address and presented in Washington, D.C.
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809: ... at the last minute appointed many federal ... and the audience could barely catch his words, which ...
"My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [3] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan "Come right out this way." [7] [8] — William Thomas Maxwell, American tracker and deputized sheriff (8 October 1901), telling the Smith Gang to surrender prior to the Battleground ...