Jefferson and His Colleagues; A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty
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By Allen Johnson (Chronicles of America #15) 27 Feb, 2019
Jefferson and his Colleagues, A Chronicle of the Virginia is a classic US president biography by Allen Johnson. Aside from salvos of artillery at the hour of twelve, the inauguration of Mr. Jefferson as President of the United States was marked by ex ... Read more
Jefferson and his Colleagues, A Chronicle of the Virginia is a classic US president biography by Allen Johnson. Aside from salvos of artillery at the hour of twelve, the inauguration of Mr. Jefferson as President of the United States was marked by extreme simplicity. In the Senate chamber of the unfinished Capitol, he was met by Aaron Burr, who had already been installed as presiding officer, and conducted to the Vice-President's chair, while that debonair man of the world took a seat on his right with easy grace. On Mr. Jefferson's left sat Chief Justice John Marshall, a "tall, lax, lounging Virginian," with black eyes peering out from his swarthy Less
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Allen Johnson (1870–1931) was an American historian, teacher, biographer, and editor, most notably of the Dictionary of American Biography. Johnson was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, where his fa...
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