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OCR Page 1 of 13EPRECH DELIVERID BY SENATOR BARRY e
AT SATORDAY MANYVILLE, IVENING, MISSOURI, APRIL 14/1098 COP
To be rolecaed on delivery.
un. CHATHIUN, TOUNG DEZOCRATS, ALL DEMOCRATS, LADIES AND CENTLINDE
It is a pleaveuro to be in Maryville today, in this grest farming section
of Torthwest Missouri. I have E grest any frienda in this part of the State
and it is always e pleasuro to caas here.
Your Congreasmes, the Honorable Richerd M. Duncen, vho ably represents
this District in Congress, le ay personal and political friend. lle la a
member, and an influential one, of the poverful Weys and Committee of
the House of Representatives, and you ought so keep him in that great
legialative body as long be 1a willing to go to Washington to represent
you. ne 1e e friend of President Roosevelt end e Decocret efter ay om hosrt.
Te are hera tonight to do honorto one of the world's grent net -- to
Thousa Jefferson, outhor of the Declaration of Independence, edvosate of the
Bill of Righte to the Constitution, nember of the Virginie Legislature and the
Continentel Congress, Govornor of Virginia, Minister to France, Secretery of
State in Weshington's Cabinet, founder of the Univereity of Virginie, the
ascond Vice Preaident and the third President of the United States.
Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743, 014 Style, April Thirteonth by our
present reckoning, et Shadwell, Virginia. His fother was a large land-owner
and aleveholder. He was the eldest of eight childron, started to school at
five, wont so Latin achool et nine, entered William and Mary College at
seventeen. He staged at that sehool two yeara end then sterted the etudy of
law in the office of George Wythe -- considered the grostest lawyer of his tims,
e signer of the Declaration of Independence and lew preceptor of Henry Clay.
Jefferson was adaitted to practice in Virginia in 1767. He was e succesa-
ful lewyer for e short time, and then in 1769 be was elected to the provincial CS
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