Clay Jenkinson
Began Presenting Jefferson in Character
in 1984 for a Regional Chautauqua Program.
Since then, he has made presentations in nearly every state to
thousands of gatherings, including school children, supreme court
justices, a gala celebration of the 250th anniversary of
Jefferson’s birth at a White House event hosted by President and
Mrs. Clinton, and many assemblies of state legislatures.
Known by historians of Jefferson as a scholar who has read most
completely in both the writings of Jefferson, much of which Mr.
Jenkinson has committed to memory, and in critical sources about
Jefferson, Clay Jenkinson has made presentations at Monticello,
appeared as a major contributor to Ken Burns’ series,
Thomas Jefferson, and works toward completion of his own
biography of Jefferson. This is your gateway to Jenkinson on
Jefferson.
