Jefferson County (24 Counties With 3 More Indirectly Named For Jefferson)
This is a list of all of the Counties in the United States named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
- Jefferson County, Alabama:
- Jefferson County, Arkansas:
- Jefferson County, Florida
- Jefferson County, Georgia
- Jefferson County, Idaho
- Jefferson County, Illinois
- Jefferson County, Indiana
- Jefferson County, Iowa
- Jefferson County, Kansas
- Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Jefferson County, Mississippi
- Jefferson County, Missouri
- Jefferson County, Nebraska
- Jefferson County, New York
- Jefferson County, Oregon
- Jefferson County, Ohio
- Jefferson County, Oklahoma
- Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson County, Tennessee
- Jefferson County, Texas
- Jefferson County, Washington
- Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Jefferson County, Wisconsin
- Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
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- Jefferson County, Colorado: Jefferson is named for the Territory of Jefferson, which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson. The Territory of Jefferson extralegally governed the area before the United States Congress established the Colorado Territory which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson..
- Jefferson County, Montana: Jefferson is named for the Jefferson River, which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson.
- Jefferson County, Oregon: Jefferson is named for Mount Jefferson on the county's western boundary which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson.
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Famous quotes containing the words jefferson, county, indirectly and/or named:
“The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There was a young lady named Bright,
Who traveled much faster than light.”
—Arthur Buller (1874–1944)