Author:Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
(1743–1826)

Thomas Jefferson

Works

Revolutionary Addresses

• A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence (28 June 1776)
• The Declaration of Independence of the United States (4 July 1776)

Works as Secretary of State

1789–1790 in the administration of George Washington

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Works as Ambassador to France

1785–1789 in the administration of George Washington

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Addresses to the Indians

• To Brother John Baptist de Coigne (June 1781)
• To Brother Handsome Lake (3 November 1802)
• To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation (17 December 1803)
• To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (10 January 1806)
• To the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation (30 December 1806)

Religious Scholarship and Political Theology

• The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth (1804) no extant copies known.
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible (1820)
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
• Letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802), expressing his demurral on a national day of Thanksgiving

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address (4 March 1801)
• Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1805)

State of the Union Addresses

• First State of the Union Address (8 December 1801)
• Second State of the Union Address (15 December 1802)
• Third State of the Union Address (17 October 1803)
• Fourth State of the Union Address (8 November 1804)
• Fifth State of the Union Address (3 December 1805)
• Sixth State of the Union Address (2 December 1806)
• Seventh State of the Union Address (27 October 1807)
• Eighth State of the Union Address (8 November 1808)

Messages to Congress

• Message to the Senate of April 8, 1802 – Regarding Article 6 of the Jay Treaty
• Message to the House of December 30, 1802 – Transmitting a letter from Manuel de Salcedo, Governor of Louisiana to William Claiborne Regarding the Treaty with Spain of 1795
• Message to the Senate of January 11, 1803 – Regarding Louisiana
• Message to Congress of January 18, 1803 – Secret message regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition to explore the West all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
• Message to the Senate of October 17, 1803 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of October 21, 1803 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• Message to the Senate and House of January 16, 1804 – Regarding the Louisiana Purchase
• The Burr Conspiracy January 22, 1807 – Regarding the conspiracy led by the former Vice President Aaron Burr

Other Works

• Letters of Thomas Jefferson
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (6 January 1821)
• Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 February 1791)
• Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
• Notes on the State of Virginia (1802)
• Manual of Parliamentary Practice, composed originally for the Senate of the United States (1849) (transcription project)
• Notes on the State of Virginia (1853)

Compilations

• The Works of Thomas Jefferson (12 volumes, 1904) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Works about Jefferson

• General References
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by John Bigelow in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 13) (1881)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by Francis Samuel Philbrick in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," by J. A. C. Chandler in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
  • "Jefferson, Thomas," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

• History of the United States 1801-09 (1889-90) by Henry Adams
  • The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson
  • The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson
• "Thomas Jefferson" by James Parton in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• "Thomas Jefferson" in the The Atlantic Monthly
  • "Thomas Jefferson" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (6), pp. 706–717
  • "Thomas Jefferson" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (7), pp. 789–803
• Other
  • The Bloom of Monticello (1926) by Elizabeth Hatcher Sadler

Proclamations

• Proclamation 4430 – Gerald Ford, Thomas Jefferson Day, 1976
• Proclamation 6669 – Bill Clinton, April 13, 1994
• Proclamation 7426 – George W. Bush, April 12, 2001
• Proclamation 8001 – George W. Bush, April 13, 2006
• Proclamation 8125 – George W. Bush, April 11, 2007

On his works

• "Declaration of Independence, American," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Declaration of Independence," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Declaration of Independence," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Declaration of Independence," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Transcription projects

• Jefferson's Germantown letters
  • Transcription project
• Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
  • Vol. 1 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 2 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 3 - Project Gutenberg
  • Vol. 4 - Project Gutenberg