Ray Kroc

In 1977, he wrote his autobiography, "Grinding It Out". Jefferson's buildings helped initiate the ensuing American fashion for Federal style architecture. In the early 1970s, Kroc became owner of the San Diego Padres and one time got on the stadium public address system to crticize the team during a poor performance. His major works included Monticello (his home), the Virginia State Capitol and the University of Virginia. Kroc's first restaurant was inaccurately claimed to be "McDonald's #1" (it was actually the 9th McDonald's restaurant), and the company dated its founding to 1955, not 1940. He felt that it reflected the ideas of republic and democracy where the prevalent British styles represented the monarchy. Under Kroc, McDonald's promulgated a version of its history that emphasized Kroc as "McDonald's founder," barely mentioning the role the McDonald brothers played. Jefferson was an accomplished architect who was extremely influential in bringing the Neo-Classical style he encountered in France to the United States.

Their relationship was not harmonious, and Kroc denied them the rights to the McDonald's name for their first restaurant, opening a new McDonald's nearby to force them out of business. All the documentary evidence shows that Hemings' first child, Harriet, was born in 1795 -- years after the mythical child "Tom" that Callender alleged. In 1961, Kroc bought out the McDonald brothers for US $2.7 million. Significantly, everyone who has researched the issue -- regardless which side they take on the Jefferson-Hemings paternity question -- agree that there is no evidence supporting the original allegation, published by Thomas Callender in 1802, that Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings' first child in France prior to 1790. Kroc's enthusiasm for the company was strong, and in his first year with McDonald's he unsuccessfully attempted to convince Walt Disney, a fellow WWI ambulance driver with whom he had been acquainted, to let him open a restaurant in the forthcoming Disneyland. Professor Mayer's independent report also suggests that the Foundation report is flawed by biases and faulty assumptions (including the assumption that only one man fathered all of Sally Hemings' children). He encouraged the brothers to put him in charge of franchising, and founded McDonald's Corporation (originally "McDonald's Systems, Inc.") with the opening of his first franchise. Mayer, a member of the Scholars Commission, says in his own writings that there is "the possibility that Jefferson's brother Randolph or one of Randolph Jefferson's five sons could have fathered one or more of Sally Hemings' children." He also states that, "Indeed, eight of these 25 Jefferson males lived within 20 miles (a half-day's ride) of Monticello—including Thomas Jefferson's younger brother, Randolph Jefferson, and Randolph's five sons, who ranged in age from about 17 to 26 at the time of Eston's birth." All of these men could have passed down the Y chromosome used as "proof".

Although the McDonald brothers had themselves invented the "Speedee Service System" in 1948, establishing the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant, and had begun franchising their restaurants before they met Kroc, it was he who recognized the enormous potential their restaurant had. David N. Immediately realizing the potential of the brothers' business, which they had already begun to franchise, Kroc went into business with them and acquired franchising rights to open a McDonald's restaurant of his own, in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955. A study by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation states that "it is very unlikely that Randolph Jefferson or any Jefferson other than Thomas Jefferson was the father of her children," while a study by an independent Scholars Commmission concludes that the Jefferson paternity thesis is not persuasive. He found out two brothers, Dick and Maurice "Mac" McDonald, were using eight of his machines at their innovative San Bernardino, California hamburger restaurant. Two major, mutually contradictory studies were released in the early 2000s. An ambulance driver in the First World War, Kroc had tried his hand at a number of trades by the early 1950s, when he was a Multimixer milkshake machine salesman traveling across the country peddling his wares. A full account of the controversy can be found in the Sally Hemings article.

Kroc. A subject of considerable controversy since Jefferson's own time was whether Jefferson was the father of any of the children of his slave Sally Hemings. Kroc was of Czech ancestry and was survived by his third wife, Joan B. In 1778, the legislature passed a bill he proposed to ban further importation of slaves into Virginia; although this did not bring complete emancipation, in his words, it "stopped the increase of the evil by importation, leaving to future efforts its final eradication". Dubbed the Hamburger King, Kroc was included in the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential builders and titans of industry and amassed a $500 million fortune during his lifetime. In 1769, as a member of the state legislature, Jefferson proposed for that body to emancipate slaves in Virginia, but he was unsuccessful. Ray Arthur Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was founder of the McDonald's Corporation in 1955, although not of the restaurant chain itself, which was started by Dick and Mac McDonald in 1940. His ambivalence can be seen for example, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson wrote, in which he condemned the British crown for sponsoring the importation of slavery to the colonies, charging that the crown "has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere..." This language was dropped from the Declaration at the request of delegates from South Carolina and Georgia.

([1]). Many of his slaves were considered property that was held as a lien for his many accumulated debts. First Sentence of his book "Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's": I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems. Some find it hypocritical that he both owned slaves and yet was publicly outspoken in his belief that slavery was immoral. Jefferson's personal records show he owned 187 slaves, some of which were inherited at the death of his wife. Jefferson's political principles were also heavily influenced by John Locke (particularly relating to the principles of inalienable rights and popular sovereignty) and Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

Jefferson had and read Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki's book De optimo senatore, and in his works paraphrased some of Goslicki's phrases from the book. and was a friend of both James Madison and Jefferson. Subsequently, many of the ideas of the Polish Brethren were continued in English-speaking countries by Unitarian congregations -- most notably, by Joseph Priestley, who had emigrated to the U.S. Biddle was a pioneer of Unitarianism in England.

Biddle's followers had very close relations with the Polish Socinian family of Crellius (aka Spinowski). Stegmann, a Polish Brother from Germany. Englishman John Biddle had translated two works by one of the Polish Brethren, Samuel Przypkowski; he also translated the Racovian Catechism and a work by J. Jefferson was influenced heavily by the ideas of the Polish Brethren.

For the full text of this letter and that to which Jefferson was replying see Wikisource. Though not religious himself, he viewed religious opinions in others, including public officials, as a purely personal matter with which the state should not interfere:. Moreover, he personally believed, as did Deist and humanist John Locke, that human rights were endowed by a God: "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever" (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-1785 Query 18). He also had friends who were clergy, and he supported some churches financially.

Jefferson himself attended certain public Christian services during his presidency. Clearly, however, Jefferson's desire to erect a "wall of separation" did not include a desire to inhibit the personal religious lives of public officials. Allen was only 12 when Jefferson retired the presidency, there is large doubt as to the accuracy of Allen's diary entry. As Rev.

This anecdote seems to contradict statements in Jefferson's personal letters. Ethan Allen at the Library of Congress). Good morning sir." (quoted from the handwritten history of Rev. The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man and I as chief Magistrate of this nation am bound to give it the sanction of my example.

Nor can be. Allen claimed he overheard Jefferson say to a friend who had challenged him for going to church when he did not believe: "[N]o nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Ethan Allen (1797-1879) in which Allen claimed to have seen Jefferson walking to church one Sunday with a large red prayer book under his arm. On the other hand, there is one anecdote by the Rev.

Weightman June 24, 1826). "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government" (Letter to Roger C. Spafford, March 17, 1814). He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own" (Letter to Horatio G.

His letters contain the following observations: "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government" (Letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813), and, "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. Moreover, his private letters indicate he was skeptical of too much interference by clergy in matters of civil government. During his presidency, Jefferson refused to issue proclamations calling for days of prayer and thanksgiving. 347:.

Peterson, ed., Thomas Jefferson: Writings (1984), p. He further developed his thoughts in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779), quoted from Merrill D. Jefferson also supported what he called a "wall of separation between Church and State", which he believed was a principle expressed within the First Amendment (see Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, 1802, and Letter to Virginia Baptists, 1808). Virginia thereby became the first state to disestablish religion — Rhode Island, Delaware, and Pennsylvania never having had established religion.

Instead, in 1786 the Virginia General Assembly passed Jefferson's Bill for Religious Freedom, which he had first submitted in 1779, and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph. From 1784 to 1786 Jefferson and James Madison worked together to oppose Patrick Henry's attempts to again assess taxes in Virginia to support churches. Congress in 1903. This compilation was published after his death and became known as the Jefferson Bible, later printed in some 2,500 copies for the U.S.

He labored on an edited version of the Gospels, removing references to the miracles of Jesus and material he considered preternatural, leaving only Jesus' moral philosophy, of which he approved. Like most deists, Jefferson did not believe in miracles. He had high esteem for Jesus' moral teachings, which he viewed as the "principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform [prior Jewish] moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state." (Letter to Joseph Priestley, April 9, 1803.). Though Jefferson did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, he several times referred to himself as a Christian.

Jefferson later expressed general agreement with his friend Joseph Priestley's Unitarianism and wrote that he would have liked to have been a member of a Unitarian church, but there were no Unitarian churches in Virginia. He later removed his name from those available to become godparents, because his beliefs opposed Trinitarian theology. Before the American Revolution, when the Episcopal Church was the American branch of the Anglican Church of England, Jefferson was a vestryman in his local church, a lay position that was part of political office at the time. Jefferson was raised Episcopalian at a time when the Episcopal Church was the state religion in Virginia.

Jefferson believed, furthermore, it was this Creator that endowed humanity with a number of inalienable rights, such as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Jefferson repeatedly stated his belief in a creator, and in the United States Declaration of Independence uses the terms "Creator", "Nature's God", and "Divine Providence". On matters of religion, Jefferson was sometimes accused by his political opponents of being an atheist; however, he is generally regarded as a believer in Deism, a philosophy shared by many other notable intellectuals of his time. Contemporary scholars debate over whether Jefferson suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.

In addition, he burned all of his letters between himself and his wife at her death, creating the portrait of a man who at times could be very private. His reluctance to speak in public is usually attributed to his taciturnity, though some historians believe it was due to a lisp. As president he discontinued the practice of delivering the State of the Union Address in person, instead sending the address to Congress in writing (the practice was eventually revived by Woodrow Wilson); he ended up giving only two public speeches during his presidency. Though it is a biographical tradition that he lacked wit, Molière and Don Quixote seem to have been his favorites; and though the utilitarian wholly crowds romanticism out of his writings, he had enough of that quality in youth to prepare to learn Gaelic in order to translate Ossian, and sent to James Macpherson for the originals.

For many years he was president of the American Philosophical Society. The range of his interests is remarkable. Yet he seems to have acted habitually, in great and little things, on system. Beneath a quiet surface he was fairly aglow with intense convictions and a very emotional temperament.

There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick sympathy (though he seemed cold to strangers), and his vivacious, desultory, informing talk gave him an engaging charm. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. He had angular features, very poor posture, a very ruddy complexion, strawberry blonde hair and hazel-flecked, grey eyes. Jefferson was six feet, two-and-one-half inches (189 cm) in height, large-boned, slender, erect and sinewy.

Jefferson appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:.
. He also said that Americans were united in a benign religion, by this he is most likely talking about the identical morals of equality and liberty.he was sex addict most mondren historians think becuse when he was in 20's as lawyer he was caaugth going out a window by woman husband in williamsburg. He said this would make America a great power.

The final point Jefferson brought up is that America’s citizens are not American from birth, but from sharing the same ideas. Not having good relations would limit much trade and stifle the economy’s growth, as well as make America a very weak political power. He realized the tremendous implications of being looked down upon by the mighty eyes of mother England, as well as other countries. Another one of his important points was that America needs to become strong in the eyes of foreign powers.

He explained how unity was necessary for the imminent expansion America would encounter. Jefferson largely restated these ideas in his inaugural address. In the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution the idea that the majority couldn’t have all the power, to protect the rights of the minority, was very prominent. At this point in time it became very important to unify the country under common goals and ideas.

Jefferson was the first Republican president. The second president, John Adams, was the only Federalist president that the USA saw. At the time of Jefferson’s inauguration, the country was very much divided, mainly politically among politicians, between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. The principles of this address can mainly be categorized as unity and expansion, but more importantly unity.

Thomas Jefferson, a powerful advocate of equality and liberty, gave his inaugural address on March 4, 1801. Jefferson's presidency from, 1801 to 1809, was the first to start and end in the White House; it was also the first Democratic-Republican presidency. His epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads:. He is buried on his Monticello estate.

Jefferson passed away on July 4, 1826, the same day as John Adams. Jefferson also appears on the $100 Series EE Savings Bond. five cent piece, or nickel. $2 bill and the U.S.

Jefferson's portrait appears on the U.S. Jefferson is so far the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serve two full terms. It was resolved on February 17, 1801 when Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives. presidential election, 1800.

An electoral tie resulted between Jefferson and his opponent Aaron Burr in the U.S. He was also the second Vice President of the United States, under John Adams from 1797 until 1801, achieving that position after getting second place in the presidential election of 1796. Jefferson was the first Secretary of State of the United States, serving from 1789 until 1795. Jefferson was a great believer in the uniqueness and the potential of the United States and is often classified as the forefather of American exceptionalism (see also exceptionalism).

He is noted for the bold pronouncement: "We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good." While there were extensive vineyards planted at Monticello, a significant portion were of the European wine grape Vitis vinifera and did not survive the many vine diseases native to the Americas.
Jefferson's idea for the United States was that of an agricultural nation of yeoman farmers, in contrast to the vision of Alexander Hamilton, who envisioned a nation of commerce and manufacturing. During his ambassadorship to France (1784-1789) he took extensive trips through French and other European wine regions and sent the best back to the White House. Jefferson was also an avid wine lover and noted gourmet. Instead, he cut a wedge out of the mound so that he could walk into it, look at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them.

When exploring an Indian burial mound on his Virginia estate in 1784, Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. He has sometimes been called the "father of archaeology" in recognition of his role in developing excavation techniques. Jefferson's interests included archaeology, a discipline then in its infancy. Nearby is the University of Virginia, the original architecture and curriculum of which Jefferson also designed.

Jefferson himself designed his famous home, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia; it included automatic doors, the first swivel chair, and other convenient devices invented by Jefferson. The Library of Congress was founded from the sale of his collection (the Library was founded in 1800; Jefferson sold his third library to Congress in 1815). The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare the draft of the Declaration alone. Livingston.

The Continental Congress delegated the task of writing the Declaration to a committee which included Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and a source of many other contributions to American political and civil culture. It was not followed by the Virginia delegates, but it was published nationally and won Jefferson some national admirers who agreed with his ideas and who were impressed by his writing ability. The summary was considered to be towards the radical side at the time in terms of the view of the colonies towards the British government.

In 1774, he wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America which was intended as instructions for the Virginia delegates to a national congress. Jefferson served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He practiced law in Virginia and in 1772 Jefferson married a widow, Martha Wayles Skelton. Jefferson inherited about 5,000 acres of land and dozens of slaves from his father, out of which he created his home which would eventually be known as Monticello.

He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the College of William & Mary — where he was a member of the secret Flat Hat Club — before founding his own vision of higher education at the University of Virginia. Jefferson's parents were Peter Jefferson (March 29, 1708–August 17, 1757) and Jane Randolph (February 20, 1720–March 31, 1776), both from families who had been settled in Virginia for several generations. . Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Achievements of his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

President John F. Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brilliant men ever to occupy the Presidency. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second (1797)–1801) Vice President of the United States, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia. Press, 1989).

Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Wilson, Douglas L., ed. (New York: Norton, 1995). The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826, 3 vols.

Smith, James Morton, ed. Pathbreaking study of the central place of debt in Jefferson's life and thought. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; reprint ed., Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001). Sloan, Herbert J.

Places in the footnotes Jefferson's later revisions done in his personal copy. Edition of Jefferson's only published book, follows the 1787 Stockdale edition that was the basis for almost all nineteenth-century reprints. Notes on the State of Virginia (New York: Penguin, 1999). Shuffelton, Frank, ed.

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (Oxford University Press, 1992). Peterson, Merrill D. Important symposium volume, the product of a 250th birthday conference at the University of Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Jeffersonian Legacies. Onuf, Peter S., ed. Excellent, challenging re-exmaination of Jefferson's political thought and his vision of American national development. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

Jefferson's Empire: The Languages of American Nationhood. Onuf, Peter S. Notable monograph. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

Mayer, David N. The classic multi-volume biography of TJ by Dumas Malone. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, various dates). Jefferson and His Time, 6 vols.

Malone, Dumas. Important symposium volume prompted by the reversal of the conventional wisdom concerning Jefferson's liaison with Sally Hemings and its meaning in American history. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999). Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, Civic Culture.

Lewis, Jan Ellen, and Onuf, Peter S., eds. Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, written when he was vice-president, with other relevant papers. Press, 1988). Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings (Princeton: Princeton Univ.

Howell, Wilbur Samuel, ed. Challenging essay on Jefferson's life and its historical significance. Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). Hitchens, Christopher.

What Would Jefferson Do? (New York: Harmony Books, 2004). Hartmann, Thomas. The leading study of this subject. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlittesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997; paperback ed., with new introduction, 1999).

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Pathbreaking study of honor culture and its relationship to the politics of Jefferson and his time. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). Freeman, Joanne B.

Jefferson's legal commonplace book. Press, 1926). The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Chinard, Gilbert, ed.

All the correspondence between Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams. of North Carolina Press, 1959). The Adams-Jefferson Letters (Chapel Hill: Univ. Cappon, Lester J., ed.

Correspondence of Jefferson with his children and grandchildren. Press of Virginia, 1986). Bear, Jr., The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville: Univ. Betts, Edwin Morris and James A.

Young-adult version of Bernstein's compact life. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas [Oxford Portraits series]. B.

Bernstein, R. (Oxford University Press, 2003) Excellent compact biography. Thomas Jefferson. B.

Bernstein, R. Jefferson's account books with records of daily expenses. Press, 1997). (Princeton: Princeton Univ.

Jefferson's Memorandum Books, 2 vols. Bear, Jr., James A., ed. Valuable introduction by Eugene Sheridan. All three of Jefferson's versions of the Gospels, with relevant correspondence about his religious opinions.

Press, 1983). Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Adams, Dickinson W., ed. Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson (1984, ISBN 094045016X).

Online, Notes on the State of Virginia [1]. Ohio (1803). Thomas Todd - 1807. Henry Brockholst Livingston - 1807.

William Johnson - 1804. Abolition of the external slave trade in 1808. neutrality by ending trade with the belligerents in the Napoleonic War. Embargo Act of 1807, an attempt to force respect for U.S.

Tertium quids create a divide in the Republican Party (the Democratic-Republican Party_(United_States)). Creation of the Louisiana Territory (later renamed the Missouri Territory) in 1805. Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806). Twelfth Amendment is ratified (1804).

Land Act of 1804. Madison (1803). Marbury v. Creation of the Orleans Territory in 1804.

Admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803. Louisiana Purchase (1803).