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- During the 1790s, Callender, a pioneering muckraking journalist, published vicious attacks on George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and other leading political figures. Today, Callender is best known as the journalist who first published the story that Thomas Jefferson had a decades-long affair with one of his slaves.
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Jan 11, 2023 · James Callender published exposés on founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and publicized reports of Thomas Jefferson's rape of the enslaved Sally Hemings — then he drowned under mysterious circumstances. Early American history was rife with political scandals.
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James Thomson Callender (1758-1803), well known in his lifetime as a political writer and newspaper editor, is remembered today chiefly for his series of newspaper articles alleging that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings.
Aug 9, 2016 · A scandalmonger, drunkard, and host body to lice, Callender exposed both Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s private affairs, two of the greatest sex scandals in the early republic.
May 27, 2017 · James Thomson Callender was a partisan journalist known for attacking Federalists but also his one-time Republican ally, Thomas Jefferson. Born in Scotland, Callender was a Scottish nationalist who published pamphlets critical of the British government.
James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. His revelations concerning George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and later Thomas Jefferson, led to his marginalization politically.
Sep 21, 2023 · A thank you letter from the King to chauffeur Alexander Callender, who was shot during a foiled bid to kidnap Princess Anne 49 years ago, has emerged for sale.
Today, Callender is best known as the journalist who first published the story that Thomas Jefferson had a decades-long affair with one of his slaves. Born in Scotland in 1758, Callender became an early proponent of Scottish independence from Britain.
