Thomas Jefferson:3rd President of the United States, 1801-1809
During Jefferson's two terms as President, the United States doubled in area with the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory, America preserved its hard-won neutrality while Napoleon's armies battled most of Europe, and Congress passed a law banning the slave trade.
| Election of 1800 | Election of 1804 | |||
| Candidate Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr John Adams Charles C. Pinckney John Jay |
Electoral
Vote 73 73 65 64 1 |
Candidate Thomas Jefferson Charles C. Pinckney |
Electoral
Vote 162 14 |
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| Vice-Presidents and Cabinet | |
| Vice-President | Aaron Burr George Clinton (1805) |
| Secretary of State | James Madison |
| Secretary of the Treasury | Samuel Dexter Albert Gallatin (1801) |
| Secretary of War | Henry Dearborn |
| Attorney General | Levi Lincoln John Breckinridge (1805) Caesar A. Rodney (1807) |
| Secretary of the Navy | Robert Smith |
| United States Events During His Administration | |
| States Admitted Ohio (1803) | |
| Territories Organized Orleans (1804), Louisiana (1805), Michigan (1805), Illinois (1809) | |
| Population in 1809 7,040,000 | |
| 1801-1805 | The United States waged war against Tripoli to stop the Barbary pirates from molesting American ships in the Mediterranean. |
| 1802 | Congress established the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. |
| Apr 30, 1803 | The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for about $15,000,000. |
| 1803 | Chief Justice John Marshall established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review in the Marbury v Madison decision. |
| 1804 | The 12th Amendment, providing for the separate elections of President and Vice-President, was proclaimed. |
| Jul 11, 1804 | Vice-President Aaron Burr shot and killed former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. |
| 1805 | Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Coast. |
| 1806 | Zebulon M. Pike explored the Rocky Mountains and sighted the Colorado peak that bears his name. |
| Mar 2, 1807 | Congress prohibited the importation of African slaves into the United States. |
| Dec 12, 1807 | Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding U.S. ships to carry goods to other nations. |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton demonstrated the first commercially successful steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River. |
| 1807 | Aaron Burr was tried for treason and acquitted. |
| Mar 1, 1809 | The Non-Intercourse Act was passed, nullifying the Embargo Act. |
| World Events During His Administration | |
| 1803 | John Dalton proposed his atomic theory of matter. |
| 1804 | Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. |
| 1804 | Richard Trevithick of Great Britain invented the steam locomotive. |
| 1807 | Great Britain abolished the slave trade throughout its colonies. |
"Thomas Jefferson." The White House. www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
Summers, Robert S. Presidents of the United States. Internet Public Library, 2005. www.ipl.org/div/potus/tjefferson.html
Aaron Burr
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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