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2. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
He lectured his fellow men on the dangers of associating with women and "the depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue," but the effect was slightly undermined by the fact that he slept with slave girls. Jefferson had a 20-year sexual relationship with a slave called Sally Hemmings who was thirty years his junior. She bore him six children who were also kept as slaves. Jefferson also had adulterous affairs with Elizabeth Walker while her husband, General John Walker, was away fighting in one of the Indian Wars, and with Maria Cosway, wife of the famous English painter of miniatures Richard Cosway.