Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States in the 19th century.

Biography
In 1974 during a telephone conversation arising from his dialling of a wrong number, the Sixth Doctor related a popular aphorism by Jefferson to Lauren Hudson: "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Fortunately for Lauren, her next telephone call was a wrong number to a radio DJ, who just happened to be asking the source of that quote in a trivia contest. As a result Lauren won the biggest prize ever given away on British radio - a holiday for two in Marbella and spending money. (AUDIO: Urgent Calls)

Trivia

 * The Eleventh Doctor mentions in TV: The Impossible Astronaut that Thomas Jefferson, along with John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, may have fancied him. However, as the Doctor specifies that only two of the three men were interested in him, so there is a possibility that Jefferson was not one of the men the Doctor meant.

Behind the scenes

 * A scene in which the Tenth Doctor claimed to have assisted Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence was deleted from The Lazarus Experiment. The scene is included as an extra on the story's DVD release.