Editing Thomas Jefferson (section)

===Memorials and honors===
{{Further|List of places named for Thomas Jefferson}}

Jefferson has been memorialized with buildings, sculptures, [[U.S. presidents on U.S. postage stamps|postage]], and [[United States dollar|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]].<ref name="rushmore">[[#Rushmore|NPS: Mt. Rushmore]]</ref>

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 {{convert|19|ft|0|adj=on}} 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]].<ref>[[#Peterson60|Peterson, 1960]], p. 378.</ref>

In October 2021, in response to lobbying, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to remove the plaster model of [[Statue of Thomas Jefferson (David d'Angers)|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.<ref>{{cite web |last=O'Brien |first=Brendan |date=October 19, 2021 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thomas-jefferson-statue-be-removed-new-york-city-council-chamber-2021-10-19/ |title=Thomas Jefferson Statue to be Removed from New York City Council Chamber |work=[[Reuters]] |access-date=November 9, 2021}}</ref> The statue was taken down the next month.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/23/thomas-jefferson-statuue-new-york-city-hall |title=New York city hall removes Thomas Jefferson statue |work=The Guardian |first=Richard |last=Luscombe |date=November 23, 2021 |access-date=January 7, 2022 }}</ref>

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File:Jefferson Memorial At Dusk 1.jpg|[[Jefferson Memorial]] in Washington, D.C.
File:12072012 Jefferson Memorial 04.jpg|Jefferson Memorial statue by [[Rudulph Evans]], 1947
File:Dean Franklin - 06.04.03 Mount Rushmore Monument (by-sa)-3 new.jpg|[[Mount Rushmore]] (''Shrine of Democracy'') by [[Gutzon Borglum]]. From left to right: [[George Washington|Washington]], Jefferson, [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]], and [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]].
File:US $2 bill obverse series 2003 A.jpg|Jefferson has been featured on the [[U.S. two-dollar bill]] from 1928 to 1966 and since 1976.
File:Jefferson-Nickel-Unc-Obv.jpg|Jefferson has been depicted on [[Jefferson nickel|the U.S. nickel]] since 1938.
File:1994 Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary Silver Dollar Obverse.jpg|The 1994 [[Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary silver dollar]]
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