Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... as Adams was a Federalist and Jefferson a Republican. The election of 1800 was even more sordid. The partisan press of both parties was venomous ...

1800, after ten of the rebels convicted of taking part in Gabriel's Conspiracy had been executed, Governor James Monroe wrote a letter to Vice President and fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson.

The first federal official of any kind to be impeached and removed from office was a federal judge from New Hampshire named ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... had to be the years immediately following the nasty election of 1800. Abigail's famous exchange of letters with Jefferson in 1804 ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

I n March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in the U.S. Capitol to take the oath of office. He had participated vigorously in the partisan ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

A man of many talents, Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the U.S. He was the author of the Declaration of American Independence and a founding father of the country. He was the nation ...

In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...

Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond Examiner to print anti-Federalist articles ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the ... Jr. issued a stipple engraving in January, 1800. E.F. Faber issued the portrait as an etching ...