South Carolina

Ralph Izard

Financier, Continental congressman, U.S. senator; 1741/42—1804.

Henry Laurens

Merchant, planter, slave trader, president of Continental Congress; 1724—92.

John Laurens

Continental Army officer, aide-de-camp to Washington, son of Henry Laurens; 1754—82.

Charles Pinckney

Soldier, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, congressman, South Carolina governor, senator; 1757—1824.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Lawyer, soldier, delegate to the Constitutional Convention; 1746—1825.

John Rutledge

South Carolina governor, second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1739—1800.

Thomas Sully

British-born painter, mainly of portraits, extended the iconography of the Revolution and the Founding Fathers into the 19th century; 1783—1872.

Visitors to Monticello often wonder at its practical accessories. Jefferson labored a month to save a minute. His home was impractical from the start — by reason of its very site (on a mountain), by the height given the first version of the building (later disguised in a way that left useless spaces in and around its dome), by the perpetual course of its dismantling and reassembly. To make the house more convenient, he made his daughter and her children live for years in a chaos of artistic second thoughts, sometimes sheltered only by canvas as the roof rose, fell, and assumed new shapes in his mind.

— Garry Wills

Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1978)