Thomas Jefferson

[vrasnick]

What was the difference in Jefferson as a politician and Jefferson as the president?

[jake-the-peg]

When he was elected he shaved his legs put on a dress and asked everybody to call him Mary thus becoming the first lady.

I thought everybody knew that

[voltr4m4x]

I have just returned to the UK having spent the last two months following the progress of the current state of affairs in American politics. Thomas Jefferson was, as we know, the 3rd President opf the United States of America, between 1801-09, and he was the founder of the American Democratic Republican Party. He was born in Virgininia into a very wealthy family, and his personal interests included music, painting and architecture as well as the natural sciences, and as such he was very much a product of the 18th Century Enlightenment.

His political philosophy of 'agrarian democracy' placed total responsibility for upholding a virtuous American republic mainly upon a citizenry of independent yeoman farmers. Yet, ironically, his two terms as President saw the adoption of some of the ideas of his political opponents, who were the Federalists.

He was strongly supportive of the French Revolution and he spent four years in France while despatching advice through his ally, James Madison, on the proposal for a Constitutional Convention. Upon his return to the political scene he carried on his battle with Alexander Hamilton, who held views of America which were directly opposed to his own agrarian, democratic inclinations.

Jefferson was the first President to be inaugurated in Washington - a city which he helped to plan - and among the several important events of his presidency were the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 of the French territories in the Mississippi Basin, and the abolition of the slave trade in 1808.

I would conclude that he is neither a Barrack Obama nor a John McCain of today's political standing, but neither was he, so far as I can tell, a man who would wear women's clothing. So you may safely dismiss the previous answer as pure speculation.

[jake-the-peg]

It's true - I have proof

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q= %22mary+jefferson%22&start=20&sa=N&ndsp=20

Top left hand corner

A founder member of the Enlightenment Transgender movement.

Washington could never quite feel comfortable with it all though

[King Normie]

Tommy were a Good Man, the True Genius behind the American Constitution!

He Seldom shaved his Legs . . .

He DID Own 'Slaves' but was, to One, at least, Generous to a Fault! Her, he gave a Child . . .

But, as much as Tom's perception of Morality disagrees with Modern Thinking, he was In-Step with what was considered Moral Thought for the 18th Century . . .

and his Coin, the Nickel, is worth Five Times that of Mr. Lincoln!