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    Thomas Jefferson Event Timeline

    Thomas Jefferson (3) Event Timeline
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    12/03/

    Presidential electors cast their ballots.  Jefferson-Burr Ticket has majority, defeating Federalists John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

    01/03/Pays condolence visit to Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. This was later reported by Martha Washington to be, next to the loss of her husband, "the most painful occurrence of her life."

    01/20/

    President Adams nominates Federalist John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (Link to pdf of Senate Journal including this date on pp. )

    01/27/

    Senate Confirms John Marshall.

    02/11/

    Electoral votes counted in Congress; Jefferson and Burr tie. In this situation, the election is determined in the House of Representatives, one vote per state.

    02/13/

    Outgoing Federalist Congress passes (and President Adams signs) a Judiciary Act (2 Stat 89) which creates 16 new Circuit Court judgeships.

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    Thomas Jefferson

    Founding Father, U.S. president ( to )

    This article is about the third president of the United States. For other uses, see Thomas Jefferson (disambiguation).

    Thomas Jefferson

    Official portrait,

    In office
    March 4, &#;– March 4,
    Vice President
    Preceded byJohn Adams
    Succeeded byJames Madison
    In office
    March 4, &#;– March 4,
    PresidentJohn Adams
    Preceded byJohn Adams
    Succeeded byAaron Burr
    In office
    March 22, &#;– December 31,
    PresidentGeorge Washington
    Preceded byJohn Jay (acting)
    Succeeded byEdmund Randolph
    In office
    May 17, &#;– September 26,
    Appointed byConfederation Congress
    Preceded byBenjamin Franklin
    Succeeded byWilliam Short
    In office
    May 7, &#;– May 11,
    Appointed byConfederation Congress
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byOffice abolished
    In office
    June 6, &#;– May 7,
    Preceded byJames Madison
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    Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, in Albemarle County, Virginia to Jane and Peter Jefferson. His father was a Virginia planter, surveyor, and slave owner. At age fourteen, Jefferson’s father died, and Thomas inherited some thirty enslaved individuals. Jefferson fully embraced the lifestyle of an affluent member of the planter class, and over the course of his lifetime he owned over enslaved people—the most of any American president.

    In addition to building and managing his Monticello plantation, Jefferson pursued careers in law and public service. After receiving an education at the College of William & Mary, Jefferson studied law in Williamsburg. By , he was serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses and three years later married Martha Wayles Skelton. They would have six children together, though only two survived to adulthood.

    As tensions grew between the American colonies and Great Britain, Jefferson was elected to the Continental Congress. In , he completed one of

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