NOUN
- 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)
How To Use President Jefferson In A Sentence
- When President Jefferson did not give Callender a postmastership after the election of 1800, he switched sides and became a Federalist, with consequences that still resonate—for it was Callender who first published the story of Sally Hemings. Alexander Hamilton, American
- The young man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and who later became President Jefferson was a Deist, as were several of the other founding fathers of that abidingly important institution, the United States. The insincerity of Richard Dawkins « Anglican Samizdat
- President Jackson , no, oh, it's on the tip of my tongue - president Jefferson, that's it.
- At the time President Jefferson himself entertained notions that fabled creatures like woolly mammoths might still live in the huge wilderness he had recently claimed with a stroke of his pen.
- For example, the authors incorrectly state that John Brown was incarcerated in Richmond, misdate Confederate President Jefferson Davis's inauguration, and even get President George Washington's birthday wrong.
