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Jefferson birth day proposal to become national holiday
A Jefferson centennial commission urged Congress to add April 13 as Jefferson’s birthday in national observance. They seek Monticello preservation and a Washington shrine for documents related to the Declaration of Independence, continuing nonpartisan patriotic education.
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Congress
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Jefferson
Monticello
Washington
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Lincoln
Mount Vernon
House
Springfield
Ill
Coolidge
Dawes
Nicholas Longworth
George P. McLean
Connecticut
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Royal 8. Copeland
New York
Finis J. Garrett
Tennessee
John Q. Tilgon
R. Walton Moore
Virginia
Robert L. Bacon
Edwin A. Aldema
Claude G. Bowers
Anthony Wayne Cook
Henry Ford
Stuart G. Gibbons
Thomas F. Ryan
Felix M. Warburg
Alexander B. Randall
Waterbury
Conn
Burton H. R. Randall
Chippendale
George Wythe
America
France
Jane Randolph Jefferson
Fanny M. Burke
Alexandria
Victor Kauffman
The
Washington Star
Rose Gouverneur Hoes
Jefferson Committee
James Monroe
Martin W. Littleton
New York City
Jefferson House
High Street
Philadelphia
Caroline Sinkler
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