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Jefferson has been memorialized with buildings, sculptures, postage, and currency. In the 1920s, Jefferson, together with George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, was chosen by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and approved by President Calvin Coolidge to be depicted in a stone national memorial at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in South Dakota.
The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., in 1943, on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. The interior of the memorial includes a 19-foot (6 m) statue of Jefferson by Rudulph Evans and engravings of passages from Jefferson's writings. Most prominent among these passages are the words inscribed around the Jefferson Memorial: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", a quote from Jefferson's September 23, 1800, letter to Benjamin Rush.
Several species have been named after Jefferson, both during and after his life. Most notable is from a fossil taxon of ground sloths, †Megalonyx. Jefferson himself had defined the genus in 1799 without naming a species. The species of the type fossil would be classified †M. jeffersonii (Jefferson's ground sloth) in honor of Jefferson by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1822. The flower genus Jeffersonia (Barton, 1793) and Virginia's state fossil †Chesapecten jeffersonius (Say, 1824) were also named after Jefferson during his lifetime. After his death, †Carabus jeffersoni (Scudder, 1900); †Mammuthus jeffersonii (Osborn, 1922); Brachypanorpa jeffersoni (Byers, 1976); †Boreogomphodon jeffersoni (Sues & Olsen, 1990); and Coiba jeffersoni (Kula, 2009) would be named in his honor.
In October 2021, in response to lobbying, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to remove the plaster model of the statue of Jefferson that currently stands in the United States Capitol rotunda from the chamber of the New York City Council, where it had been for more than a century, due to him fathering children with people he enslaved. The statue was taken down the next month.

== Writings ==

A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787
Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States A report submitted to Congress (1790)
"An Essay Towards Facilitating Instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern Dialects of the English Language" (1796)
Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (1801)
Autobiography (1821)
Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

== See also ==

== Notes ==

== References ==

== Works cited ==

=== Scholarly studies ===

=== Thomas Jefferson Foundation sources ===

=== Primary sources ===

=== Web site sources ===

== External links ==

Scholarly coverage of Jefferson at Miller Center, U of Virginia

United States Congress. "Thomas Jefferson (id: J000069)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Thomas Jefferson collection at the University of Virginia Library
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, subset of Founders Online from the National Archives
Jefferson, Thomas (1774). Summary View of the Rights of British America. Printed by Clementina Rind – via World Digital Library.
The Thomas Jefferson Hour, a radio show about all things Thomas Jefferson The Thomas Jefferson Hour
"The Papers of Thomas Jefferson". Avalon Project.
Works by Thomas Jefferson at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Thomas Jefferson at the Internet Archive
Works by Thomas Jefferson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 
"Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts and Letters".
"Thomas Jefferson's Family: A Genealogical Chart". Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters.