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"We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal;

that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;

that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of

happiness."




Thomas Jefferson
	3rd President of the United States	March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809



	Born: April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia	Died: July 4, 1826, at Monticello (near Charlottesville, Virginia)
	Father: Peter Jefferson	Mother: Jane Randolph Jefferson
	Religion: No formal affiliation	Education: Graduated from College of William and Mary (1762)
	Occupation: Lawyer, planter	Political Party: Democratic-Republican
	Nicknames: "Man of the People"; "Sage of Monticello"

Married: Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-1782), on January 1, 1772

Children: Martha Washington Jefferson (1772-1836); Jane Randolph Jefferson (1774-75); infant son (1777); Mary Jefferson (1778-1804); Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (1780-81); Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson (1782-85)

Monticello

Other Government Positions:		Points of Interest:
Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1769-74 Member of Continental Congress, 1775-76 Governor of Virginia, 1779-81 Member of Continental Congress, 1783-85 Minister to France, 1785-89 Secretary of State, 1790-93 Vice President, 1797-1801		the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. books from Jefferson's private library help start the Library of Congress bears brought back from Lewis and Clark's famous expedition were displayed in cages on the White House lawn. For years the White House was sometimes referred to as the "president's bear garden." the only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence, Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier. invented the swivel chair, a pedometer, a machine to make fiber from hemp, a letter-copying machine, and the lazy susan. Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he served as president of the United States

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Declaration of Independence

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