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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
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The Riverside Biographical Series
NUMBER 5
THOMAS JEFFERSON
BY
HENRY CHILDS MERWIN
THOMAS JEFFERSON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue
The
BY
HENRY CHILDS MERWIN
HENRY CHILDS MERWIN
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue
The
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Riverside Press, Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HENRY C. MERWIN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE I. Youth and Training 1 II. Virginia in Jefferson’s Day 16 III. Monticello and its Household 28 IV. Jefferson in the Revolution 36 V. Reform Work in Virginia 45 VI. Governor of Virginia 59
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style="text-align: right">VII. Envoy at Paris 71 VIII. Secretary of State 82 IX. The Two Parties 98 X. President Jefferson 114 XI. Second Presidential Term 130 XII. A Public Man in Private Life 149