Thomas Jefferson Portrait is on the Two $2.00 Dollar Bill...HISTORY...

Thomas
Jefferson

 

His Portrait is on the Two $2.00
Dollar Bill.

 

This is amazing.
There are two parts.

Be sure to read
the 2nd part (in RED).

 

Thomas Jefferson
was a very remarkable man who started 

learning very
early in life and never stopped.

 

At 5, began
studying under his cousin's tutor.

 

At 9, studied
Latin, Greek and French.

 

At 14, studied
classical literature and additional languages.

 

At 16, entered
the College of William and Mary.
Also could write in Greek with one hand
while writing the same in Latin with the other.

 

At 19, studied
Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

 

At 23, started
his own law practice.

 

At 25, was
elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

 

At 31, wrote the
widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" And
retired from his law practice.
 

At 32, was a
delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

 

At 33, wrote the
Declaration of Independence.

 

At 33, took
three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education
bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

 

At 36, was
elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick
Henry.

 

At 40, served in
Congress for two years.

 

At 41, was the
American minister to France and
negotiated commercial treaties with
European nations

along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams..

 

At 46, served as
the first Secretary of State
under George Washington.

 

At 53, served as
Vice President and was elected
president of the American Philosophical
Society.

 

At 55, drafted
the Kentucky Resolutions and
became the active head of Republican Party.

 

At 57, was
elected the third president of the
United States.

 

At 60, obtained
the Louisiana Purchase doubling
the nation's size.

 

At 61, was
elected to a second term as President.

 

At 65, retired
to Monticello ..

 

At 80, helped
President Monroe shape the
Monroe Doctrine.

 

At 81, almost
single-handedly created the University of Virginia

and served as its first president.

 

At 83, died on
the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the

Declaration of Independence along
with John Adams.

 

Thomas Jefferson
knew because he himself studied the previous

failed attempts at government, he understood
actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature
of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand
today.

 

Jefferson really
knew his stuff.

 

A voice from the
past to lead us in the future:

 

John F. Kennedy
held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds
in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps
the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in
the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone."

 

 

"When we
get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ."--

Thomas
Jefferson

 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those 

who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
--
Thomas
Jefferson

 

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. 

A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the
world."
--
Thomas
Jefferson

 

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them."

--
Thomas
Jefferson

 

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government 

results from too much government."

--

Thomas
Jefferson

 

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

--

Thomas
Jefferson

 

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--
Thomas
Jefferson

 

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

--

Thomas
Jefferson

 

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
--

Thomas
Jefferson

 

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

 

"I
believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies.

 

If the
American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency,

first by
inflation, then by deflation, 

the
banks and corporations that will grow up around
the banks

will
deprive the people of all property -

until
their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered."

Thomas Jefferson was pictured on all two dollar bills.  The earliest two dollar legal tender notes are from 1862, as shown above.

All legal tender notes from 1869 are called rainbow notes because of the multi-colored paper these were printed on.

1874, 1875, and 1878 two dollar bills have a distinctive red overprint.  Notes from these years can be very difficult to locate.


Series of 1880 and 1917 legal tender notes look very similar.  However, the 1917 $2 bills are extremely common.  Nice looking examples can be bought for about $50.  1880 notes can have red or blue serial numbers.

The UNITED STATES NOTE  first small size two dollar notes were issued in 1928.  These are really only collectible in perfect condition or as star notes.  Regular circulation notes from 1928 are only worth about $5.  Some star notes are very rare though.

1953 and 1963 $2 UNITED STATES NOTE are extremely common. 

1976, 1995, 2003 & 2009 (Private) Federal Reserve Note

I wish we could
get this out to every American!

 

I'm doing my
part. 

 

So Please do
yours.