Thomas Jefferson
April Thirtieth
To Jefferson’s initiative and farsightedness we owe it that we secured without bloodshed, for a trifling sum of money, a territory which doubled our republic, assured its expansion to the Gulf of Mexico and to the Pacific, and thus lifted us, by a stroke of genius, into a world power of the first class.
Thomas E. Watson
Jefferson acquires the Louisiana territory from France, 1803
Washington inaugurated first President of the United States, 1789