SuperEpicFailpedia Wiki
Advertisement
Overview
Popular Culture
Quotes

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 - 4 July 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He previously served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level.

Popular Culture[]

Appearances[]

Variants[]

Year Name Appearance Notes
1942 Thomas Jefferson
1995 Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson in Paris
  • Jefferson was portrayed by Nick Nolte,[7][8] while Sally Hemings was portrayed by Thandie Newton.[9]

Parodies[]

Year Name Appearance Notes
1816 Thomas the Magician
  • A political satire. While John Adams and George Washington have straight appearances, Thomas Jefferson is depicted as Thomas the Magician, a malevolent necromancer who stole the presidency.

Mentions[]

Year Name Appearance Notes
1972 Thomas Jefferson
  • Evil Roy Slade
  • A portrait of Jefferson hangs on a wall of the Boston Bank.
  • A portrait of James Monroe hands on the other end of the room.
1973 Thomas Jefferson
  • For Want of a Nail, author Robert Sobel
  • After the failure of the American Revolution, Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers are executed, save for George Washington, who is sentenced to life in prison. Andrew Jackson and the other surviving Patriots relocate to what becomes the State of Jefferson. Jackson eventually becomes President of the United States of Mexico.
  • Abraham Lincoln is also mentioned.
1988 Thomas Jefferson
  • The Presidio
  • Lieutenant Colonel Alan Caldwell (Sean Connery) recalls in a drunken speech that when his family moved to America, his father had given him a book about Jefferson.
1989 "A president"
  • Roadkill
  • Buddy, a taxi driver and former roadie, speaks to a plush rabbit about a band named after a president and a plane, claiming to have told them to release the song "White Rabbit.
  • Brian Mulroney is also mentioned.
1998 Thomas Jefferson
  • The Patriot
  • A painting of Washington appears above a fireplace. George Washington, James Madison, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were also mentioned.
2014 Thomas Jefferson
  • How to Fight Presidents, author Daniel O'Brien
  • One of 39 Presidents against whom combat strategies are proposed to the reader.
2015 Tom Jefferson
  • Captain Pete Mitchell (Paul Gross) of the Intelligence Branch of the Canadian Armed Forces states that the Afghani people do not want Jefferson or Justin Bieber, i.e., democracy.

Links[]

References[]

  1. The Remarkable Andrew - IMDB
  2. Gilbert Emery - IMDB
  3. Brian Donlevy - IMDB
  4. Montagu Love - IMDB
  5. George Watts - IMDB
  6. Rod Cameron - IMDB
  7. Jefferson in Paris - IMDB - Retrieved 3 April 2021
  8. Nick Nolte - IMDB - Retrieved 3 April 2021
  9. Thandie Newton - IMDB - Retrieved 3 April 2021

Navigation[]

           Seal of the President of the United States Presidents of the United States

18th century
George Washington | John Adams

19th century
John Adams | Thomas Jefferson | James Madison | James Monroe | John Quincy Adams | Andrew Jackson | Martin van Buren | William Henry Harrison | John Tyler | James K. Polk | Zachary Taylor | Millard Fillmore | Franklin Pierce | James Buchanan | Abraham Lincoln | Andrew Johnson | Ulysses S. Grant | Rutherford B. Hayes | James Garfield | Chester A. Arthur | Grover Cleveland | Benjamin Harrison | Grover Cleveland | William McKinley

20th century
William McKinley | Theodore Roosevelt | William Howard Taft | Woodrow Wilson | Warren G. Harding | Calvin Coolidge | Herbert Hoover | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Harry Truman | Dwight D. Eisenhower | John F. Kennedy | Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard Nixon | Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | Ronald Reagan | George H. W. Bush | Bill Clinton

21st century
Bill Clinton | George W. Bush | Barack Obama | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | Donald Trump

Advertisement