No. Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 and that included New Orleans.
Napoleon
No.Just James Monroe tried to buy New Orleans
James Monroe and Robert Livingston
Thomas Jefferson sent two people to negotiate the price of New Orleans. Those people were James Monroe and Robert Livingston.
James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston were both Founding Fathers of the United States. They went to Paris together in 1802 to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans.
Thomas Jefferson arranged the purchase of the Louisiana territory. However, it was James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston that actually went to Paris to make the purchase.
In 1802, President Jefferson sent James Monroe to France to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans. The negotiations also included the US minister to France, Robert Livingston. Napoleon unexpectedly offered to sell all of the French territorial claims in the Mississippi Valley, and the agreement became the Louisiana Purchase.
James Monroe
James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston.
To ask Napoleon Bonaparte to agree that the U.S. farmers could trade through New Orleans.
James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroe