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OCR Page 1 of 13SPEECH DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
AT MARYVILLE, MISSOURI,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1938
To be released on delivery.
to ARCHIVES "MATIONAL REQORDS AND for
SERVICE"
There les of
MR. CHAIRMAN, YOUNG DEMOCRATS, ALL DEMOCRATS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Rickinlle
It is a pleasure to be in Maryville today, in this great farming section
east
of
Northwest Missouri. I have a great many friends in this part of the State
and it is always a pleasure to come
here. andy Romjue
Your Congressman, the Honorable Richard M. Duncan, who ably represents
this District
in Congress, is my personal and political friend. He is Changuan a
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member, and an influontie] one, of the powerful Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Representatives, and you ought to keep him in that great
legislative body as long as he is willing to go to Washington to represent
you. He is a friend of President Roosevelt and a Democrat after my own heart.
We are here tonight to do honorto one of the world's great men to
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, advocate of the
Bill of Rights to the Constitution, member of the Virginia Legislature and the
Continental Congress, Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, Secretary of
State in Washington's Cabinet, founder of the University of Virginia, the
second Vice President and the third President of the United States.
Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743, Old Style, April Thirteenth by our
present reckoning, at Shadwell, Virginia. His father was a large land-owner
and slaveholder. He was the eldest of eight children, started to school at
five, went to Latin school at nine, entered William and Mary College at
seventeen. He stayed at that school two years and then started the study of
law in the office of George Wythe - considered the greatest lawyer of his time,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence and law preceptor of Henry Clay.
Jefferson was admitted to practice in Virginia in 1767. He was a success-
ful lawyer for a short time, and then in 1769 he was elected to the provincial
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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