Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 60/@comment-5482968-20160514041437

I don't believe it was ever mentioned here (if nothing else I never saw comments discussing it), but that chair tweet Betette made a few days ago has a fairly good explanation, courtesy of the forums:

"No it's [Thomas Jefferson]. In the John Adams TV miniseries about John Adams they reference a chair that Jefferson made that allowed the chair to move about freely on wheels made from some window shades thing. I'll do more research on it but I'm fairly certain it's Jefferson.

EDIT: after exploring some more I found that yes [Thomas Jefferson] invented the first swivel chair after modifying another type of chair and brought it with him the the convention in Philadelphia"

Apologies if I somehow missed this discussion, but ye, it seems logical enough that it could be Jefferson, in which case that's almost certainly Douglass' opponent.

For now I'm going with this, I suppose, but it could very easily be confirmation bias.