|
John Jefferson
John Jefferson may refer to: * John Jefferson (missionary) (1760–1807), English missionary * Joseph John Jefferson (1795–1882), English Congregationalist minister and Christian pacifist * John Wayles Jefferson (1835–1892), American businessman and Union Army officer * John Jefferson (American football) (born 1956), American football player See also * Jon Jefferson (born 1955), American author and television documentary maker {{hndis, Jefferson, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jefferson (missionary)
John Jefferson (1760 – September 25, 1807) was an English missionary and a pioneering member of the London Missionary Society (LMS), who played a significant role in the early Protestant missionary efforts in Tahiti. The expedition to Tahiti Born in 1760, Jefferson was a devoted Christian from a young age and felt a strong calling to missionary work. He was ordained on August 9, 1796, at Haberdashers' Hall in London, just before embarking on a journey that would shape his legacy as a missionary in the South Seas. The next day, August 10, 1796, Jefferson and a group of fellow missionaries boarded the ''Duff'' at Woolwich Dock in London. The ship, commanded by Captain James Wilson, was bound for the South Pacific. The journey was long and arduous, with the missionaries sailing via Gibraltar and rounding Cape Horn, before finally arriving at Matavai Bay in Tahiti on March 5, 1797. Upon their arrival in Tahiti, Captain James Wilson, John Jefferson, and a few other missionaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph John Jefferson
Joseph John Jefferson (1795–1882), usually referred to as John Jefferson, was a British Congregationalist minister and advocate for Christian pacifism. Biography Historian Martin Ceadel asserts that Jefferson's pacifist position was most likely inspired by one of his congregants named John Scott. Scott died in 1832 and as minister for the Independent Meeting House at Stoke Newington, Jefferson delivered the eulogy. Jefferson was elected as secretary of the London Peace Society on 11 August 1840. In 1845, he spoke publicly in a series of lectures in London sponsored by the Society along with George Thompson, Henry Richard, and John Scoble. The lecture series was attended by a total of 64,000 people. Jefferson hoped they would spread Christian pacifism, specifically opposition to all wars as a Christian principle. In 1846, he was one of the first sixty signers of the League of Universal Brotherhood Pledge, along with Joseph Sturge and James Silk Buckingham. He was also ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wayles Jefferson
John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He is believed to be a grandson of Thomas Jefferson; his paternal grandmother is Sarah (Sally) Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his wife. Early life and family John's father, Eston Hemings, was born a slave at Monticello in 1808, the youngest of Sally Hemings' six mixed-race children. They are widely understood to have been the children of President Thomas Jefferson, Hemings' enslaver. As they were seven-eighths European in ancestry (7 of his 8 great grandparents were "white"), under Virginian law at the time they were legally white. But they were born into slavery under the slave law principle of ''partus sequitur ventrem'', by which children of slave mothers took the status of the mother. Sally Hemings was three-quarters white and a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha Wayles Skelton. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jefferson (American Football)
John Larry Jefferson (né Washington; born February 3, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football with the Arizona State Sun Devils, he was selected in the first round of the 1978 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. He played three seasons in San Diego, where he became the first NFL player to gain 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first three seasons. He was traded to the Green Bay Packers after a contract dispute with the Chargers, and later finished his playing career with the Cleveland Browns. College career After graduating from Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Jefferson received a scholarship to attend Arizona State University. He played for the Sun Devils from 1974 to 1977. Jefferson's breakout year occurred in his sophomore season (1975) when he led the team with 52 receptions and 921 yards receiving on the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
