What did thomas jefferson do
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Jefferson recognized that the principles he included in the Declaration had not been fully realized and would remain a challenge across time, but his poetic vision continues to have a profound influence in the United States and around the world. Abraham Lincoln made just this point when he declared:
All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that to-day and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.7
After Jefferson left Congress in 1776, he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. In late 1776, as a member of the new House of Delegates of Virginia, he worked closely with James Madison. Their first collaboration, to end the religious establishment in Virginia, became a legislative battle which would culminate with the passage of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Free
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Early Years
Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743 (after the change in 1752 from the Julian, or Old Style, Calendar, the date was adjusted to April 13, which became common usage). He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson and was born at Shadwell, on the Rivanna River in a part of Goochland County that became Albemarle County in 1744. His father was a founding member of the Albemarle County Court, a prominent frontier surveyor, and creator with Joshua Fry of the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia. His mother was a member of one of the most politically influential families in eighteenth-century Virginia. Shadwell was well stocked in refined material goods consistent with gentry culture, despite its situation near the Virginia frontier.
After his father died on August 17, 1757, Jefferson inherited more than 5,000 acres of land, half of it in the environs of Shadwell, about twenty slaves, and his father’s books and mathematical instruments. He boarded at the small schools of two Anglican clergymen, with William Douglas from 175
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Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president (1801 to 1809)
This article is about the third president of the United States. For other uses, see Thomas Jefferson (disambiguation).
Thomas Jefferson | |
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Official portrait, 1800 | |
| In office March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809 | |
| Vice President | |
| Preceded by | John Adams |
| Succeeded by | James Madison |
| In office March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 | |
| President | John Adams |
| Preceded by | John Adams |
| Succeeded by | Aaron Burr |
| In office March 22, 1790 – December 31, 1793 | |
| President | George Washington |
| Preceded by | John Jay (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Randolph |
| In office May 17, 1785 – September 26, 1789 | |
| Appointed by | Confederation Congress |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Franklin |
| Succeeded by | William Short |
| In office May 7, 1784 – May 11, 1786 | |
| Appointed by | Confederation Congress |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| In office June 6, 1782 – May 7, 1784 | |
| Preceded by | James Madison |
| Succeeded by | Richard H
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