Many dignitaries have visited the President's House through the centuries. Four of our country's early presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Tyler—were welcomed there, ...

U.S. presidents have used autopens since Thomas Jefferson; the first to use an autopen to sign a law was Barack Obama.

The first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and ... of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

When the election of 1800 produced no clear winner, the House of Representatives decided the outcome. It voted for Thomas Jefferson as president and Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson called his ...

In the Virginia House of Delegates (1776-1779 ... bonding deeply with both John and Abigail. In 1789, President George Washington asked Jefferson to be his Secretary of State.