Person
Thomas Jefferson
U.S. minister in Paris from 1785 to 1789, later Secretary of State and third President.
- Dates
- 1743–1826
- Wikidata
- Q11812
- Life 1743–1826
- worked at United States government (Minister to France) 1785–1789
Connections 7
worked at
- United States government 1785–1789 Minister to France Primary record 12
intervened in
- U.S. wars and massacres against Indian nations, 1776 to 1890 1807 Scholarship & press 3
involved in
- American debt to France agreed to refuse, urged giving reasons, and was for paying that year's instalments early if it was safe Primary record 4
- U.S. wars and massacres against Indian nations, 1776 to 1890 in 1807 told Indians near Detroit that a tribe he fought would be "exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi" Scholarship & press 3
appears in
- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson consulted on the draft Primary record 5
authored
- Jefferson's sketch of a charter of rights (1789) 3 Jun 1789 Primary record 6
influenced
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Lafayette's draft declaration of rights (1789)
According to The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
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The editors mean Lafayette's draft and the text he presented on 11 July 1789, not the Assembly's Declaration of 26 August.
Timeline 4 dates
- 1743–1826 Thomas Jefferson
- 1785–1789 Thomas Jefferson worked at United States government
- 3 Jun 1789 Thomas Jefferson authored Jefferson's sketch of a charter of rights (1789)
- 1807 Thomas Jefferson intervened in U.S. wars and massacres against Indian nations, 1776 to 1890
Proof 6 sources
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In their own words: Thomas Jefferson and the Storming of the Bastille (Prologue blog), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.
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In 1785, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Paris to replace Benjamin Franklin, who was retiring as ambassador to France.
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Thomas Jefferson on the French Revolution (letter to William Short, 3 January 1793), Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (CUNY), 3 Jan 1793.
Scholarship & press
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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Genocide and American Indian History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2 Mar 2015.
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Archived copy
adding that should Indians go to war, “they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them.”
President Jefferson sent word to Indians near Detroit that “if ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi,”
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Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 6 June 1793, National Archives, Founders Online, 6 Jun 1793.
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We are then to examine what are our good reasons for the refusal, which of them may be spoken out, and which may not. 1. want of confidence in the continuance of the present form of government, and consequently that advances to them might commit us with their successors. This cannot be spoken out.
If the instalments falling due in this year can be advanced, without incurring those dangers, I should be for doing it.
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Lafayette's Draft of a Declaration of Rights, June 1789 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, with editorial note), National Archives, Founders Online, 1789.
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TJ must have returned one copy of the text to Lafayette with his “Notes
It is certain that TJ’s influence, though its extent cannot be fixed, is present in this text and in that finally presented
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From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 3 June 1789, National Archives, Founders Online, 3 Jun 1789.
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I have ventured to sketch such a charter merely to convey my idea
my meddling in a business where I know so little
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