5. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the president known for the affair with a woman named Sally Hemings who was owned by Jefferson and of mixed race–she traveled with Jefferson to Paris and acted as his wife’s attendant in addition to caring for their children at different points in her life. Historians believe her to have given birth to 6 of Jefferson’s children, 4 of whom lived to become adults and Jackson freed them. This happened after Jefferson’s wife’s death. At least two of his children with Hemings, publicly claimed him as their father. Jefferson never freed Hemings, though his daughter did, unofficially after Jefferson’s death.
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