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SPEECH 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 Poat Office: + Post 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