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Colonial Williamsburg's Bill Barker portrayed Thomas Jefferson at a program jointly hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University.

Bill Barker has brilliantly portrayed Jefferson for the past 20 years. Since 1993 he has been the star of Colonial Williamsburg.

Attracted to the stage at an early age, Barker became a professional actor, director, and producer. He was cast as Jefferson in the musical, "1776," and has performed at the White House, the Palace of Versailles, and numerous other venues throughout the United States, Great Britain, and France.

As Thomas Jefferson, he has appeared in programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, The History Channel, and C-SPAN, and has been featured in Time Magazine, People, Atlantic, and Reader's Digest.

The Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley illuminates the American presidency to raise civic literacy, learned discourse, and a new generation of leaders.

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[raigekimaru]

Andrew Jackson was our nation's first democrat. although by today's standards, most of our early presidents (certainly all the founding fathers) would be considered libertarian.

[SagaWrath]

I'm confused. Who exactly did Thomas Jefferson kill? ...and why do you have a random name?

[runelord37]

@MrWakethesheeple Any given man, and indeed any man of philosophical innovation is not born into a vacuum. Many of the situtations that they found themself in created an extremely precarious position. I do not condone the treatment of Native Americans, but i think you would indeed read much into the letters that were exchanged from the time of the pilgrims up until the time of Jefferson concerning their plight. Their were many many opposed and horrified at the mass murder visited upon them.

[bowtie3]

@marketanarchist2011 lol you're still idiot. 

[marketanarchist2011]

@bowtie3 how are you?

[bowtie3]

@marketanarchist2011 lol idiot.

[marketanarchist2011]

@bowtie3 they were libertarians

[bowtie3]

Thomas Jefferson the founding father of the Democratic Party.

Both Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine were really early forms of liberalism. Both great liberals.

[MrWakethesheeple]

Libertarians don't condone slavery, the displacement and murder of Native Americans or using women for breeding only.

[MrWakethesheeple]

But only white men could take part in Andrew Jackson's little libertarian utopia. But I admire him for closing the Rothschild-owned Second National Bank.

[MrWakethesheeple]

Sure ending the Second National Bank was libertarian, but his treatment of Native Americans, women and slaves taint Andrew Jackson's libertarian principles.