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So, why did Jefferson have a bust of his political archenemy, Alexander Hamilton, in his Hall at Monticello? #OpposedInDeathAsInLife



Image of Cornelia Jefferson Randolph's "Floorplan of Monticello's First Floor with Furnishing Notes" courtesy the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, U.Va.

 

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