Thomas Todd
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Thomas Todd was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he briefly served in the American Revolutionary War before completin
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Thomas Todd House Frankfort, Kentucky
Thomas Todd gravesite, Frankfort Cemetery Frankfort, Kentucky
John Marshall by Henry Inman, 1832
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. He was also the second vice president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A prolific wri
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…in 1806 elected him as the chief judge). Todd also owned slaves, twenty-six slaves at the time of the 1820 census. On February 28, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson nominated Todd as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, after the number of seats on the Court was expanded from six to seven by Congress. The…
Portrait, c. 1800
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, where Jefferson studied in 1761 and 1762
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
The Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson largely wrote in isolation between June 11 and 28, 1776, from a floor he was renting in a home at 700 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia, contain "the most potent and consequential words in American history," historian Joseph Ellis later wrote.