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Thomas Jefferson
philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. The document's social and political ideals were proposed by Jefferson before the inauguration of Washington.[67] At age 33, he was one of the youngest delegates to the Second Continental Congress beginning in 1775 at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, where a formal declaration of independence from Britain was overwhelmingly favored.[68] Jefferson chose his words for the Declaration in June 1775 -
Thomas Jefferson
During General Benedict Arnold's 1781 invasion of Virginia, Jefferson escaped Richmond just ahead of the British forces, which razed the city.[89][90] He sent emergency dispatches to Colonel Sampson Mathews and other commanders in an attempt to repel Arnold's efforts.[91][92] Jefferson then visited with friends in the surrounding counties of Richmond, including William Fleming, a college friend of his in Chesterfield County.[93] General Charles Cornwallis that spring dispatched -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson sent for his youngest surviving child, nine-year-old Polly, in June 1787, who was accompanied on her voyage by a young slave from Monticello, Sally Hemings. He had taken her older brother James Hemings to Paris as part of his domestic staff and had him trained in French cuisine.[120] According to Sally's son, Madison Hemings, the 16-year-old Sally and Jefferson began a sexual relationship in Paris, where she became pregnant.[121] The son also indicated Hemings -
Thomas Jefferson
He organized his wide variety of books into three broad categories corresponding with elements of the human mind: memory, reason, and imagination.[38] After the British burned the Library of Congress during the Burning of Washington, -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743, Old Style, Julian calendar), at the family's Shadwell Plantation in the British Colony of Virginia, -
Thomas Jefferson
his administration reduced military forces. He was re-elected in 1804, but his second term was beset with difficulties at home. -
Thomas Jefferson
In 1768, Jefferson began constructing his primary residence Monticello (Italian for "Little Mountain") on a hilltop overlooking his 5,000-acre (20 km2; 7.8 sq mi) plantation.[c] He spent most of his adult life designing Monticello as architect and was quoted as saying, "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." -
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Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia at age 16 and studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy with Professor William Small. Under Small's tutelage, Jefferson encountered the ideas of the British Empiricists, -
Thomas Jefferson
jefferson took seven cases for freedom-seeking slaves[45] and waived his fee for one who claimed that he should be freed before his minimum statutory age.[46] Jefferson invoked natural law to argue, "everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will