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While serving as third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson kept a pair of grizzly bears in a cage on the White House lawn! The bears were a gift from Captain Zebulon Pike, an early explorer of the Louisiana Territory. Learn more!

Histories of the National Mall | Was that a grizzly bear on the Mall? In 1807, two grizzly bear cubs briefly lived on the White House grounds. They are just some of the animals, wild and domestic, who made their home on the Mall. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the land of the Mall was a grazing space for farm animals. The Mall has also been a home to wild animals....

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day! Both men passed on July 4, 1826 – right on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4th | Headlines & Heroes The deaths of former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4, 1826, the day of the Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was an extraordinary and eerie coincidence.