PRINTER'S NO. 1211
No. 67 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY SAURMAN, CAPPABIANCA, HERSHEY, SAYLOR,
M. N. WRIGHT, HUTCHINSON, FAIRCHILD, MILLER, REBER,
E. Z. TAYLOR, NICKOL, PESCI, WOZNIAK, KING, PITTS, GERLACH,
ROONEY, TRUE, ALLEN, LESCOVITZ, SATHER, FAJT, RUBLEY, CIVERA,
MIHALICH, FICHTER, ROBERTS, NYCE, STABACK, STERN, GEIST, ZUG,
STETLER, ITKIN, FARGO, GODSHALL, ARGALL, L. I. COHEN, PLATTS,
LEDERER, DeLUCA, CLYMER, ARMSTRONG, SEMMEL, HESS, COWELL,
DENT, PETTIT, JOSEPHS, EGOLF, KENNEY, S. H. SMITH, TOMLINSON,
CURRY, FARMER AND WAUGH, APRIL 19, 1993
ADOPTED, APRIL 19, 1993
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Honoring Thomas Jefferson on the 250th anniversary of his birth,
2 April 13, 1993.
3 WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President of the United
4 States, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, on April 13,
5 1743; and
6 WHEREAS, More than any other man, he formed and molded the
7 American mind and spirit; and
8 WHEREAS, He pledged "...eternal hostility against every form
9 of tyranny over the mind of man"; and
10 WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson, through 60 years of public
11 service, labored to create social and economic conditions in
12 which men might develop to the limit of their abilities; and
13 WHEREAS, He is remembered as a statesman, diplomat, educator,
14 farmer, inventor, musician, architect, craftsman, political
1 philosopher and as the founder of the anti-federalist,
2 Republican/Democrat Party; and
3 WHEREAS, He is best remembered as a great President and as
4 author of the "Declaration of Independence"; and
5 WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson devised the Decimal System used in
6 American coinage; and
7 WHEREAS, He collected the finest private library on the
8 American continent - a library which became the nucleus of the
9 Library of Congress; and
10 WHEREAS, A distinguished American historian says of him,
11 "More fully than any other American, Thomas Jefferson embodied
12 those qualities characteristic of the America of his day and the
13 America that was to be"; therefore be it
14 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
15 of the Commonwealth, wherein our Republic was born, honor Thomas
16 Jefferson, one of the founders of the American republic upon the
17 anniversary of his birth; and be it further
18 RESOLVED, That, as a public expression of our esteem and
19 gratitude, the General Assembly designate April 13, 1993, as the
20 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson.
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