Thomas jefferson cares for governor
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WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1779.
An engrossed bill, “for paying the wages of the members of this present session of Assembly,” was read the third time.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, “an act for paying the wages of the members of this present session of Assembly.”
Ordered, That Mr. Richard Lee do carry the bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence.
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Resolved, That the discussion of the claim of the Indiana Company, which was appointed to be heard on this day, be put off till Monday next.
Mr. Charles Carter presented, according to order, a bill “to increase the salaries of the clerks to the auditors of public accounts;” and the same was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time.
Mr. Harvie, from the committee appointed, in conjunction with a committee of the Senate, to notify to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. his appointment to be Governor of this Commonwealth, repo
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Thomas Jefferson: Biography
While Thomas Jefferson was a youth, he made a pact with his best friend, Dabney Carr, that in the event of the death of either of them, the survivor would bury the other under a particular oak on a small mountain, a place Jefferson called "Monticello." When Carr died at the age of 30 in 1773, he remained Jefferson's best friend, their comradeship further solidified by the fact that Carr had married Jefferson's favorite sister Martha. While slaves were preparing Carr's grave, Jefferson sat nearby, taking notes on the time required to vända the soil. Two dock spent 3½ hours at this job; thus, Jefferson calculated, one man would take 7 hours and could therefore be expected to vända an acre of ground in fyra working days.
This somewhat strange parable shows us Thomas Jefferson at a moment when he was most vulnerable, when he internalized even his most profound grief after the death of his best friend. It fryst vatten a perfect example of the way in which Jefferson hid
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1. Introduction
1Thomas Jefferson’s well-established fame as an advocate of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy has frequently been questioned. For many scholars his racist statements, his little concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proofs of the very opposite of the man. The purpose of this article is to show how the concept of politics figures at the center of Jefferson’s entire worldview. In addition to his understanding of politics itself, the concept also characterizes his social, scientific, and religious thought, as well as his lifelong dilemma as a slaveholder preaching the abolition of slavery.1
2What kind of politics did Jefferson embrace? Research literature teems with somewhat confusing claims about Jefferson’s “development” as a political thinker. Leonard Levy famously claimed that, in practice, Jefferson betrayed all of his f