Education- Was sent to Dover, Virginia, where he studied Latin with Reverend William Douglas until 1757. He was then sent to the school of the Reverend James Maury at Hanover, Virginia, and spent two years studying Greek and Latin classics, history, literature, geography, and natural science. In March 1760 Jefferson entered the College of William and Mary. ... Jefferson's cabinet included Aaron Burr (1801) and George Clinton (1805-1809) as Vice president, James Madison as Secretary of State (1801-1809), Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Dexter (1801) and Albert G...

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The year before Thurgood was born, the Saturday Evening Post had this quote from a Mississippi Governor, James K. ... He was the youngest with an older brother named William Aubrey. His parents, William C. and Norma Marshall were brought up in almost completely different worlds. ... William dropped out of school after elementary school, but could read and write very well. ... Though William was a man of great character and class, he did not let his resentment of his Pullman car porter or steward job destroy him or humiliate him. ...

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Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ... When it was over, two people were dead, twenty-eight marshals had been shot, one hundred sixty people were injured, and James Meredith became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi. ...

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On March 23, 1970, James Hubert Hallford, M.D., who had two state abortion prosecutions pending against him, intervened in this suit alleging the same constitutional and jurisdictional grounds as Jane Roe's complaint. ...

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