More about Thomas Jefferson

• When he became president, he had been a widower for 19 years. His daughter Martha or "Patsy" assumed the role of First Lady.
• Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, died 19 years before Jefferson became president, making him the first widower in the White House.
• During his administration, the U.S. population was five and a half million.
• "Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. . .Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body."