Such a man was Thomas Jefferson on his departure from France. He had his limits, of course; he had his foibles; he had his faults. But the sum of his worth as a human being was very great ...

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became Americaâs Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress ...

In foreign policy, Federalists generally favored England over France. Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central authority might lead to a loss of individual ...

Read more: Mistakes Everyone Makes With Oatmeal While Thomas Jefferson's breakfast habits ... the wealthy Parisians with whom he socialized in France. There, a small morning meal called le petit ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... in 1784 to join Benjamin Franklin and Adams as ministers to France, Adams much admired and liked Jefferson. Adams famously remarked ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain and the Jefferson Weather and Climate Records The Declaration of Independence was off to the press, so Thomas ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. Both men were ... of a three-man team of diplomats sent to France in 1798. On his return, Marshall showed ...